JT Chick Parodies And Satires--Part Three

- April 28, 2023

A rare Indian variant version of A Demon's Nightmare.

"Winter Solstice celebrations are held on the eve of the shortest day of the year. During the first millennium in what is today Scotland, the Druids celebrated Winter Solstice honoring their Horned God and rejoicing his solar return as the days got longer, signaling the coming of spring. Also called the Yule and the Saturnalia, this tradition still lives today in the Wiccan traditions and in many cultures around the world.

The symbols of those earlier religions -- the mistletoe, the holly, the pentagram, the evergreen tree, the Yule log, the wreath, and the fertility colors of red and green -- have surv

The Horned God is perhaps the oldest male deity in European history.

Images of him date back to prehistoric cave drawings in Lascaux, France. He appeared as Pan Pangenitor to the ancient Greeks, and as Cernunnos to the Celts, and as numerous other horned or antlered fertility deities across Europe. On the eve of the Winter's Solstice, he was believed to impregnate the cold, dead Earth Mother, so that she may resurrect and give birth to new, green life in the spring.

The celebration of the Solstice was officially forbidden by the Christian Church, but continued on among peasants and nobles nonetheless. Finally, in the Fourth Century, Pope Julius I acquiesced and created the holiday we now know as Christmas, substituting the birth of Jesus (which most historians have placed in September) for the veneration of the Pangenitor in an attempt to transform the pagan holiday into a Christian one. Still, the figure of the Horned God survived into the character we today know as "Santa Claus," the "Old Man of the North," the ancient, furry, man in red who is borne aloft by a team of horned bucks and "delivers the goods" to the entire planet in one magical night...."

ived and been incorporated into the iconography of current Christmas celebrations.....