God is right up there with some Finnish Reindeer high off their jingles upon some local Mushrooms and some jolly old dude is right up there with them.
This is a FACT - the very 'unglamerous' fact of what 'Santa Clause' was originally based upon from long ago. Local wildlife and people eating 'funny' mushies and in their own 'Finnish' way, they get 'high' in their sleigh.
Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson were famously hailed as Colonial Heroes for 'Discovering' a route across the Blue Mountains.
FACT: They just asked the local Dharruk "Which way across?"
James 'syphillis' Cook was famed for 'discovering' Australia.
FACT: At least x20 other people had discovered what was well known to the Portuguese, in Spanish Territory (still is I think - legally?

) and known to East Africa as Ophir for a long time.
I tend to like the Zeitgeist version upon Religion, it sort of brings everything back down to earth in regards to Astronomical, Weather and Crops.