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December 06, 2006
It's that time of year again
It's that time of year when people with a creative flair get asked to translate the seasonal traditions onto two dimensional [folding] objects.
I am no exception, except that I want to go beyond the recent acquisitive traditions and dig about in older ones, namely:
[with apologies to Larry Rivers]
During Yuletide, in the mid-winter solstice, when the nights were at their longest, and the cold pinched you to your bones, Old Father Winter, or as he was sometimes called: King Frost, would offer to lift your spirits.
Wearing a long green, fur-lined, hooded cloak and a wreath of ivy, holly and mistletoe, Old Father Winter would call at your house where you would ply him with warmth, hot food and good ale. The idea being that if you were kind to King Frost the winter would be kind to you and your family.
As the Christian myths spread through England, Old Father Winter gradually became Father Christmas, who had nothing to do with the giving of presents, or children, or wearing red raiment - we have Coca Cola to thank for all that.
Posted by john at December 6, 2006 12:49 PM