Some just said that there isn't any historical truth to santa claus but there is, saint nicolas=santa claus

Question

just a twisted version of the saint, em I right?

Answer 1

Santa is more closely based on Thor, the Norse god of thunder.

Saint Nicholas (or Sinter Klaas as the Dutch called him) only gave him his name. The only other similarity they shared was a mixing of tradition of both Sinter Klaas and Thor: the giving of gifts.

Sinter Klaas left gold in people's shoes on their doorsteps on December 5 or 6, and Thor would give out gifts and leave them by the hearth on the winter solstice. Santa, in combination of these two, is said to leave gifts under a tree (another Norse winter solstice tradition) and in stockings (rather than shoes) by the hearth. Santa does this on the night of December 24, which is much closer to the winter solstice (which usually falls on the 21 or 22 currently, but used to be later in December hundreds of years ago).

Every other trait of Santa Claus was purely modeled after the Pagan Germanic idea of Thor.

Thor has a long white beard, and his element is fire, making his color red and giving him a close association with the hearth. He is a jovial god, with a heavy build. The thunder was said to be the sound of his chariot rolling through the sky, pulled by two white goats named Cracker and Gnasher. He is said to live in "Northland," and became known as the Yule god, fabled to have fought giants of ice and snow, protecting the people and watching over them. He has also been married.

Sinter Klaas was presumably clean-shaven, adorned in your average clothing of priesthood, and was tall and lean. He would walk unaccompanied around town and leave gold in the shoes left on people's doorsteps; he never entered any of them. He lived in the residential Netherlands, from where his story originally comes. Because of his priesthood, however, he was never married.

Answer 2

Santa Claus comes from Saint Nicholas, some eastern orthodox saint from a place called Myra? Who gave gifts to children and poor families during the christmas festival. The coca cola thing is the fact that saint nicholas was portrayed in a 1920s advertisment wearing a red and white jump suit, the colours of coca cola and "santa' has been portrayed this way ever since, esp in america and japan

Answer 3

There was a monk in Europe back in the 15 century I think who gave out toy to kids in his village a couple hundred he was made Saint by the Pope Santa Clause came a few hundred years later now they call him Saint Nick

Answer 4

Santa Claus is based on St. Nicholas. St Nicholas did what Santa does, gave toys and such to children

Answer 5

actually, the saint started out as a pagan deity known as Nicholas the wonder worker

Answer 6

Santa is REAL!!! (DUH!)