# Mythology: who lives at the South Pole? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232 "2006-11-29T19:14:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/1 "2006-11-29T19:14:29Z")
So, mythologically-speaking, if Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, who lives at the South Pole? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/2 "2006-11-29T19:18:13Z")
Hanukkah Harry? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/3 "2006-11-29T19:23:49Z")
Satan Claus, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/4 "2006-11-29T19:26:25Z")
The Anti Claus. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/5 "2006-11-29T19:26:52Z")
The [ANTI-CLAUS!](http://www.seuss.org/stuff.i.like/anti.claus.html) > [@](#): > > “On Demon! On Danger! On Warlock and Werewolf! > And Pestilence, Death, Disease, Famine, and Adolf!” > And onto the garage the deer pulled the snowplow, > As the malnourished man gave us both a deep bow. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/6 "2006-11-29T19:44:03Z")
Yes. Yes. The Anti-Claus. \ Or would that be ‘Clause’, in honour of the Lawyer? I can see it now: "The Anti-Claus lives at the _real_ South Pole. That station the US built is not actually at the pole; it’s several hundred kilometres north. I mean, it’s mostly just a level ice plain there, with the occaisional mountain; it all looks the same, and no-one would know the difference. They even admit that the South Pole the tourists take pictures at is not the real one. They just sort of let you infer that the real pole is only a couple of hundred metres away. But no-one ever goes on the other side of that certain mountain on the horizon…" ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/7 "2006-11-29T19:54:51Z")
Saul Catnas? (I know, I know) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/8 "2006-11-29T20:04:06Z")
1.) Santa Anna 2.) St. John (Because Midsummer’s Night is St. John’s Eve) 3.) The Continental Congress of the United Colonies 4.) Santa Claus, in the summer. It’s his vacation home 5.) Shoggoths ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/9 "2006-11-29T20:12:03Z")
[Osama’s homo-bortion-pot and commie jizz-porium.](http://www.newshounds.us/2005/12/08/jon_stewart_hits_back_at_bill_oreilly.php) ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/10 "2006-11-30T00:08:04Z")
[Brownies](http://www.webfitz.com/xmas/48xmas.html) live there. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/11 "2006-11-30T00:20:19Z")
Emperors. Lots of them. They hang out looking regal and just have parties all the time. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/12 "2006-11-30T00:28:30Z")
The staff of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Oh, mythological…okay, one of 'ems Bigfoot, or some shit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/13 "2006-11-30T04:54:34Z")
Snow Miser. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/14 "2006-11-30T07:08:05Z")
Jimmy Hoffa’s remains. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/15 "2006-11-30T09:09:40Z")
I think you’ll find that nobody can live at the South Pole because if they did they’d have fallen off the bottom of the earth by now. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/16 "2006-11-30T09:18:42Z")
I was thinking Mount Purgatory, but apparently that’s on the other side of the world from nothern Italy, not the North Pole. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/17 "2006-11-30T11:50:18Z")
An independent Clause, of course. With his relative Pronouns. **Cal** , that’s St. John the Baptist, not St. John the other guy (Apostle, Gospel-writer, disciple whom Jesus loved, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/18 "2006-11-30T13:27:56Z")
Madelyn Murray O’Hare (or her remains) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/19 "2006-11-30T14:19:26Z")
Glumms and Gawreys of course. Alternate spelling would be [Glums and Gawrys](http://utopia.nypl.org/primarysources.html). > [@](#): > > 1751 [Paltock, Robert]. The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins A Cornish Man: Relating particularly, His Shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro’ a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; his there meeting with a Gawry or flying woman, whose life he preserv’d, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Woman that fly. Likewise a Description of this strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author’s remarkable Transactions among them. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector. With an INTRODUCTION, giving an Account of the surprizing Manner of his coming on board that Vessel, and his Death on landing at Plymouth in the Year 1739. Illustrated with several CUTS, clearly and distinctly representing the Structure and Mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the Manner in which they use them either to swim or fly. London: J. Robinson and R. Dodsley. Jim ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232/20 "2006-11-30T14:32:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Cal, that’s St. John the Baptist, not St. John the other guy (Apostle, Gospel-writer, disciple whom Jesus loved, etc.) Nice to get further info, but I never identified which Sty. John it was in my post. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology-who-lives-at-the-south-pole/382232.md?page=2)