Comments by "Peter S" (@Peter_S_) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered"
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It's sad how this video leaves out the early origins, but jumps in later in the story as if the early history didn't exist and should be forgotten. The indigenous people of what is now northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and small bits of north-western Russia are the Sami people. Our flag has been recognized by the United Nations since 1986. Sami shamen used reindeer to find amanita muscaria mushrooms for ritual use in the same way that the French use pigs to locate truffles. Amanitas are the classic storybook mushroom with the red cap covered in white dots which in Japanese video games are often a source of superpowers and they grow almost exclusively in symbiotic relationships with organisms present in the root systems of conifer trees. Once the reindeer located the mushrooms under the evergreens, they would then consume them, filling their systems with the chemicals muscimol and ibotenic acid and rendering the reindeer completely spaced out for the next many hours. The shamen would then collect the reindeer's liquid effluent (word choice to sidestep YouTube's word filters), which still had lots of muscimol in it but the bioprocessing by the reindeer's system would remove most of the toxic ibotenic acid, rendering the liquid effluent more suitable (?!?) for use as an entheogen. Now you know why Santa's reindeer fly. They're literally tripping their brains out. This is also where the Santa / North Pole connection comes in as much of Sami territory is above the Arctic Circle. These mushrooms are almost exclusively found under evergreen conifers and the gifts under the tree may have their origins in being symbolic representations of amanita mushrooms. The genesis of the Santa character lies in the archetype of a Sami shaman. As the Germanic tribes invaded the Nordic lands and replaced the indigenous nature religions with christianity, small amounts of this previous reality were retained to make the transition easier. Today, Sami descendants get to laugh at how the rest of the caucasian world has taken our history and warped it.
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