Saint Cucuphas is Harlequin (part 2)

So, the part that I left out is that Harlequin has already been linked to a pagan god in the book,  Santa Claus - Last of the Wild Men. By Phyllis Siefker, in paperback 2006, ISBN-13:  978-0786429585

In fact, there's King Herla - a folk tale from Germany, and maybe now there's this Cucuphas from Spain.  So Harlequin could be a compound of Herla + Quin, the northern and southern versions of the trickster god.  It's pretty cool if it's true.

What if there is a close link in the folklore between Saint Cucuphas and the Cucafera?  I believe that the Cucafera represents the spirits:  all the ancestors, and possibly the spirits of all the animals too.  I mean if people were cooking meat regularly, maybe Cucafera was part of a tradition of honoring the food animals.  I'm remembering that the word, "tragedy" originally meant, "goat song."  While I wish that I were a vegetarian, I know that goat is very delicious.  I helped get a goat for the feast of Eid last year.

And what I learned about Eid, the feast of sacrifice, is that people say, Thanks God it is not my day to die.  I'm talking about the feast that remembers the story of how Abraham was tested by God, how his son Issac was spared and they sacrificed a ram.

Well, my mind was drifting.  All we now know is that Cucufera is similar to other stories about a boogie man called Coco.  I do have another story, a second small discovery.  But it involves human sacrifice (maybe that's where my daydream about Eid was going.). I found something just too horrible about the Spanish Inquisition.

I will just briefly sketch the story.  I found a specific event at the beginning of the Inquisition where some victims were dragged through the streets and then killed.  But this horror took place just at the beginning of the agricultural year.  It had the hallmarks of a pagan sacrifice, which is terrible because in the Inquisition, Christians cruelly destroyed pagans.  Or that's what we thought.  Seems it was much more complicated.

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