{"id":8967,"date":"2017-12-23T21:41:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T04:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8967"},"modified":"2017-12-23T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T05:36:11","slug":"im-here-to-fill-your-krampus-tide-stocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8967","title":{"rendered":"I’m Here to Fill your Krampus-tide Stocking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don’t forget to leave a penny for Krampus! (Maine State Museum).<\/p><\/div>\n

Krampus <\/a>likes lots of odd, pointy, and weird things, so let’s go . . . .<\/p>\n

\u2022 Was a genuine 11th-century Norse penny found in Maine dropped by a Norse explorer, or is it part of a long-time hoax?<\/a> But would\u00a0\u00a0 “Egil Ketilson” have been carrying money? Where was he going to spend it, Skraeling-Mart?<\/p>\n

\u2022 The initiates of Mithras also kept their secrets well. But they left some buildings, and people try to figure out the religion from those.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 “I realized that if I designed my metal band, it would definitely be a pagan feminist folkcore band, which is a Swedish\/Norwegian style of metal music. It\u2019s really ambient and loud even though it\u2019s not using as much electricity-style [sic] instruments. I realized that I didn\u2019t know anything about paganism. I was grabbing onto it because it seemed logical for this brand of metal. Slowly, over the years, I started researching goddesses and figuring out that in paganism there is a lot of mathematics and numerology. That instantly peaked [sic] my curiosity because I like working with numbers.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Being avante-garde these days is such a lot of work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/a>And you have to learn about runes and electricity and stuff. (Does anyone still say “avante-garde”?)<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Your eyes appear to have a magical power all of their own”? “You operate at a lower body temperature than the people around you.” You might be descended from Fairies.<\/a>\u00a0 Yeah, sure, tell it to Krampus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Krampus likes lots of odd, pointy, and weird things, so let’s go . . . . \u2022 Was a genuine 11th-century Norse penny found in Maine dropped by a Norse explorer, or is it part of a long-time hoax? But would\u00a0\u00a0 “Egil Ketilson” have been carrying money? Where was he going to spend it, Skraeling-Mart? 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