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The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #12) Desaturated Santa

This is BrodyQat (her Flickr name) in her second annual appearance as Desaturated Santa. She explains how (and why, sort of) she does it here. More pics below the fold.

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The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #11) Jack Daniels Santa

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #10) 12 Galaxies Santa

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #9) Mohawk Santa

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #8) Jukebox Santa

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #7) Saint Lucia Santa

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #6) Hasidic Santa

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #5) James O'Keefe Santa

On his way to bring toys and presents and falsified ACORN videos to the good little boys and girls at Breitbart.com.

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #4) Cute Couple Santa

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #3) Aloha Santa

This one looks oddly familiar...

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #2) Mystical Tattoo Santa

Hanging out with her old pal Jesus Santa.

The Twelve Santas of Christmas: #1) Accordion Santa

The familiar legend of the Twelve Santas of Christmas has many regional variations¹, but the gist of it is the same all over: the god Santa Claus has 12 separate avatars that come on 12 separate days in December to bring presents or, for kids who have been bad, unspeakable torment. This tradition was ruthlessly suppressed by the medieval church because it conflicted with their belief in three and only three gods², but happily it has been revived here in San Francisco.


¹The Finno-Basque tribesmen living in the Banat of Temesvar, for example, worshipped Bassoon Santa instead of Accordion Santa.
²Not counting the hundreds of minor deities who were each worshipped one day out of the year.