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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 30 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Santa is a shared delusion running on people’s minds in a distributed fashion, known in magic occult spheres as an egregore. All of those minds then manifest Santa by their own deeds and the spread of Santa memes. Santa‘s sled is everywhere at once as the sequence of delivered packages doesn’t matter. One Santa manifested everywhere through human thought and action.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Isn’t this how gods worked in Terry Pratchett’s books?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

No, but it is basically how Santa worked, as seen in Hogfather.

Gods are a species that become more powerful the more worshippers they have and essentially powerless when they have no followers, as seen in Small Gods.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't the Hogfather an old winter god?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 4 points 15 hours ago

Maybe? It’s been a while.

[–] nezrock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago

You're thinking of American Gods by Gaiman.