Shbobdb posted:

Gifts are real. Trees are real. Rivers are real. The metaphorical representation of each through Santa, Dyads and Naiads, are just metaphors. Both Saturn and Jupiter are still in the sky, so Saturn isn't able to eat Jupiter.

You realize the metaphor and that's cool.

In junior Kindergarten, I got held back a year for making basically that argument (it ended up in me getting punched in the face so I was labeled antisocial).

Mythology is a tricky thing.