Frosty the Snowman is one of the most beloved Holiday/Winter songs of all time. Released in 1950, the song features lyrics by Jack Rollins and music by Steve Nelson.
The well known lyrics feature an alchemical recipe for the creation of a snow-man. The aspirant will need a corncob pipe, a button (made of bone, horn, pearl or shell), 2 pieces of coal, and a silk top hat. And of course, snow fashioned into a snow-man shape.
The alchemical key to the snow-man. The union of the plant, mineral, animal and human worlds.
The corncob pipe- Pipes are often used in shamanic and magickal ceremonies, the corncob is the plant world. The button nose- When Frosty the Snowman was released in 1950, most junk-drawer buttons that would be used in the creation of a snow-man would be made from an animal product, such as bone, horn, pearl or shell. The button nose is the animal world.
Two eyes made out of coal. Coal is for the mineral world.
Magick silk hat. The hat represents the human world. "For when they placed it on his head, he began to dance around." It is the human touch, the placement of the hat on the snow-man's head that completes the union of the four worlds. Silk also represents transformation, as silk is harvested from the larvae of insects that undergo transformation.
"The Snowman Quaternity" A vision for a quaternity overlay on the Frosty the Snowman song after dancing and reading Carl Jung's thoughts on the creation of mandalas as a key to understanding wholeness.
"Thumpety-thump thump, thumpety thump thump, over the hills of snow!"
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