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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Helios didn’t have anything to do with kids or gifts. Why are you using him as an example?
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He’s a Greek god flying across the sky, pulled by several animals.

The visual goes way back. 
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I can’t find any Greek or Roman gods that fly across the sky with reindeer or deer, who bring gifts to children.

Helios was the sun god. The sun is in the sky. How does Helios relate to Santa?

HELIOS (Helius) was the Titan god of the sun, a guardian of oaths, and the god of sight. He dwelt in a golden palace in the River Okeanos (Oceanus) at the far ends of the earth from which he emerged each dawn, crowned with the aureole of the sun, driving a chariot drawn by four winged steeds. When he reached the the land of the Hesperides in the far West he descended into a golden cup which bore him through the northern streams of Okeanos back to his rising place in the East.

Once his son Phaethon tried to drive the chariot of the sun, but he lost control and set the earth ablaze. Zeus struck the boy down with a thunderbolt.

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