#StNic

BluRaven C. Houvener

@bchcomix.bsky.social

1 year ago

'The Year of Reflection' is back....and it's comin' in hot with a' #StNic cameo!
bchcomix.com
#NCBD #Webcomic #Music #indie #comix #StNicofDetroit #Nicodemus #NicodemusAndMatchez

Tom Wright

@tomwrightuom.bsky.social

1 year ago

21/ #StNic Facial Paradox👤🧩

🤖🖥️ #SVM analysis identified:

StNic Face = ElderlyBeardedMan!
Walter Shields = AdultMan! (❌🎅)

Could this reflect:

🤔Divergence in portrayal due to iterative promulgation & uniform depiction, shaped by culture & tradition⁉️🎅

#SantaScience

Tom Wright

@tomwrightuom.bsky.social

1 year ago

13/ St Nicholas Face 2024 🔁👴

#StNic Face Revisited
(Moraes et al, 2024)

💀➡️🎅also drawing on Prof Luigi Martino (Bari Uni🇮🇹) meticulous 1957 skeletal measurement & roentgenography data ( #Vatican request during crypt repair)

📰Covered @nypost.com @nypost.com.web.brid.gy

🔗 nypost.com/2024/12/04/w...

Tom Wright

@tomwrightuom.bsky.social

1 year ago

3/ Is Santa Walter Shields?🦌🎅

Research by Oliver Smith 2021 rejects #StNic Origin of Santa

⚠️Could Santa be Walter Shields, Alaskan reindeer fair organiser⁉️

🪦1884-1918, RIP Flu Pandemic
📚Lived on ✨Iñupiat folklore
🗣️Traders 1920s 🇺🇸

📸 @amphilsociety.bsky.social
📄 works.hcommons.org/records/3dtd...

Tom Wright

@tomwrightuom.bsky.social

1 year ago

2/ Santa Origins🎅🗓️

Many trace #Santa back to #SaintNicholas Bishop of Myra

Born 270 AD in Patara
(Modern-day Antalya Province 🇹🇷)

#StNic was a secret gift-giver e.g. coins in shoes overnight 👞✨

#FatherChristmas
#Sinterklaas
#SantaClaus

🎅 Emerged to shape our festive traditions🎄🎁