Basically I used two stories "The Story of Santa Claus" and "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" to try to figure out where Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas Claus came from.
My theory was that: from the first story, Nicholas Claus is found out to have been living in an orphanage on a small island. Later he leaves the island, supposedly finds a family to live with, and gets married. He had often found joy in making toys for the younger children so he goes into the toy business with his wife. Out of love for children and since the couple can't have children of their own, he often gives away his toys to the poor children even though the toy shop is in debt. His wife calls him a Saint, therefore, Santa becomes his nickname from her.
So, Nicholas "Santa" Claus.
Now, with the second story I theorized that Nicholas Claus was indeed abandoned by his biological mother because she could not care for him. Perhaps she was too poor. She thought the ruler of the lands, a rich guy, could care for her baby. It can also be guessed that she thought highly of this ruler and even trusted him. But the ruler does not want to care for the child so he tells his right-hand man to bring the baby to an orphan asylum. In the story the sled is blown away but I think in reality it was successfully taken to the orphan asylum. There the baby just named Claus was given the name Nicholas by the headmaster of the orphanage. She takes him in and shows him the joy of life. But eventually the asylum shuts down because it is old or perhaps the ruler does not want it there any more.
Nicholas Claus is sent from orphanage to orphanage until he makes it to the one on the island. Now he is much older and he finds joy in teaching the younger kids how to carve tops out of wood which he probably learned somewhere along the way.
Okay, that was the Santa Claus Theory. Now the North Pole Theory.
In "The Story of Santa Claus", the couple are evicted from their house because Nicholas Claus' good heart made them unable to pay rent. So, they collect their remaining toys and decide to take them to Nicholas' last orphanage. The one on the island.
On their way they are met with a serious storm and become shipwrecked on a snowy cold land where elves live.
So, I know the story of elves is crazy but, an elf girl Aurora says something very interesting that makes sense in our world.
You know how you will never find Santa's Village (as it is most often called) in the North Pole?
Aurora says "This geographic North Pole" meaning that it is not the North Pole we all know and can go to. She also says "Not to be confused with the magnetic North Pole which is constantly shifting". That implies it is truly not OUR Earth North Pole but another one.
So therefore, it can also be theorized that not everyone can go to this North Pole where everything is possible like magic and flying reindeer. I think the reason that Nicholas Claus was able to go here is because,
1. He had a genuine good heart and only genuinely good-hearted people can go here.
2. Elf magic is pure (as said in the film of The Santa Claus Story). Nicholas and his wife were also very pure. Their love was pure and they had forgiveness in their hearts even for the landlord that evicted them (In the film, when going through his first round to give every child in the world a toy, Santa visits the landlord's house and gives him a new cane or something to which the landlord is touched).
3. His wish to bring happiness to every child without descrimination echoed into the hearts of the elves which made him an immortal being so that he may forever continue his quest for every child in the world to be happy.
So now we need to talk about these elves.
Elves have come in many different shapes and sizes over the years. Like Lord of the Rings elves are human-sized.
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| See? Elves are human-size. More like the hobbits are the size of Santa's helpers. |
I think these elves, though they call themselves elves, are more like fairies of the north rather than elves.
Elves in many christmassy stories that I've heard, cannot do magic. Santa is the one that can do magic. But these elves in The Story of Santa Claus can.
My theory for the real world is that, if Santa Claus was an orphan, a normal human, and he died once and became a spirit, it would make sense if perhaps these elves existed. When you are a spirit, maybe you see more that is around you. So in other words, in the shipwreck in The Story of Santa Claus, Santa and his wife have already died. They feel pain and everything still but in the real world, they have died.
This Other North Pole is the spiritual one. His wish to give every child in the world a toy was so big and so powerful that it enabled him to pursue it forever after death as a spirit and later as a true Saint.
That's why he (and his wife) can talk to these North Fairies. That's why these supernatural things occur and exist.
Am I making sense? Basically this is Santa's profile:
Nicholas "Santa" Claus
Age: Immortal (because he is technically a spirit)
His Life Story:
Originally he was an orphaned baby (as in the film Santa Claus is Comin' to Town) who moved from orphanage to orphanage until he made it to this island. Possibly somewhere in Europe (as The Story of Santa Claus starts out). He marries Gretchen (known today as Mrs Claus).
After evicted from the property he tries to bring his leftover toys to his last orphanage but dies in a shipwreck. Because his wish was so strong, he was able to stay a spirit, a true Saint to live on immortally to serve his purpose.
In this Other North Pole that he arrives in, he meets these North Fairies who can perform magic. Though they look like elves and call themselves elves, they are actually (in human terms) North Fairies. The North Fairies can only do magic at night. This might have evolved in this way because perhaps humans were allowed to come into their world more freely in the past so they only did it at night to conceal themselves.
Santa and North Fairies work together to fulfill Santa's wish. With magic they can do even the most impossible things like fly around in the sky using reindeers which was the most suitable choice after much consideration of other creatures (see The Story of Santa Claus here on YouTube).
So, here's my theory. Santa and his wife died in the shipwreck. The North Pole with North Fairies only permits those with pure hearts and pure wishes to enter their spiritual world. This "geographic North Pole" is not in the area of the North Pole that we know. It could be a sort of "in between life and death" world. Therefore, Santa and his wife with pure hearts and pure wishes were permitted entry into this world where they come in contact with North Fairies who, through a grant of their wish, helped them give every child in the world a toy and spread joy and happiness.
This makes Santa a true Saint and therefore he is granted immortality because the North Fairies have seen him worthy to keep in this world-between-life-and-death and to continue to aid him. However, we must remember that the North Fairies do not have immortality though they do have magic. Of course they will grow up and die and bear children and have a life cycle. Only Santa and his wife are immortal though they are not alive but will never fully die. To humans, this world of the North Fairies is a world between life and death. To the North Fairies, however, it is just a world that they live in and not like a spiritual world.
PHEW!
Okay, this kinds of makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, if we are trying to prove that Santa Claus is real or continues to be a real person. Well, he was a person. Now he is more than a person. He is a Saint. For anyone, like in the Bible, to become a Saint, I think they all had to die first. So we can naturally assume that Nicholas "Saint" Claus died hundreds of years ago along with his wife.
Wait, is his wife a Saint, too? Maybe not. Maybe she was granted immortality only because she was his wife. Well, she also had a genuinely kind heart, too.
So that's the end of "The Santa Claus and North Pole Theory Part 2".
Happy Holidays and see ya later alligators! :D
P.S.
My next extensive Santa Claus fun will probably be on different types of Santas around the world. This, is also really interesting.
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