>>518670675
As a child I never read Moomins. As an adult an online friend (Danish) responded to something I said with a pic of Snufkin and I had the reaction mentioned in the post you responded to. I asked him about the character and ended up reading all of Moomins over the course of one summer. Snufkin is powerful and primeval. He is just another aspect of Tolkien's Tom Bombadil and ancient Albion's Merlin. He is a heirophant that represents a very specific personality type that only exists withing the White race. Not the merchant wander of the jews, but the Explorer and Poet King. In the tarot Snufkin is The Fool, the one who lacks all common sense to the outsider, but only because they lack the wit to understand he has seen through everything and is tired of the lies and manipulation of society.