The first and original Santa Claus was a woman, a fairy
goddess named Flidais. She traveled the countryside in a sleigh pulled by deer with a burlap sack in the backseat filled with candy, food, and gifts for everyone who was good and kind to one another and to her animal friends in the
forests.
She was known as the fairy goddess of the woodlands and mistress of the beasts because she loved and cared for all the creatures of the forests. She was also a shapeshifter and could “fith fath” into any creature (human, fae, or animal). She assumed animal forms most often so she could talk to her friends in the forests and learn their languages, their lives, their loves, and their
secrets.
Her husband was Adammair (AD-ah-mawr), a virile lover and a skilled craftsman. He and Flidais made most of the toys and gifts she distributed on the Winter Solstice. But as the world became more populated, more gifts were needed and soon the task was more than they could handle alone. So Flidais commissioned the elves from the forests to help them and
soon, after that, they built a huge workshop to create and store their gifts.
Many of the Celtic heroes and heroines who were demoted from gods to fairies during the Milesian reign were later promoted to saints by the Christians. Saint Flidais (FLEE daws) later because Saint Fe Claws, who then became Saint Claus or—better known today as, Santa Claus.
Read more about Flidais on
the story card that comes with this beautiful photographic portrait, available
in black or white mats. Click here
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Flidais' portrait contains 164 photographs
(plus digital painting & effects)
& took over 230 hours to create.
