![]() ![]() ![]() Krampus, on the other hand, embraces his roots and doesn’t want people to forget him or the Pagan ways celebrating the holidays. During the course of Santa’s aka Baldr’s life, death and subsequent rebirth, he renounces his past and converts to Christianity. Their lives are no longer tied to the cycles of the seasons and the harvest, no longer do they need the Yule Lord to chase away the winter darkness and usher in the light of spring. In Brom’s book, Krampus and Santa are both decedents of Norse gods. They gather their food not from the forest and fields, but from plastic bins and ice boxes. So I must ask myself, what role can I play in a world where men worship the moving-picture box, where they make and consume potions that eat away their own brains, where they ravage and pillage entire mountains, kill the very earth itself? “Mankind has lost its connection to the land, to the earth, to the beasts and spirits. And I cannot blame them, for they now have the power to chase away the shadows with a mere flick of a switch. They have lost their fear of the wild and with it their need to believe. ![]() They no longer have want of a great and terrible spirit to protect them. They have forgotten what it is to huddle in a hut with the beasts and demons howling outside their door. ![]() “I am fearful most men of this age are like you. ![]()
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