So a few times in the past people have made some jokes.

I've seen jokes on Twitter, on Facebook, even in YouTube comments.

People say, you know, why don't you do the symbolism of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer?

There's somehow a joking element to that question.

But I thought that I would dive into the symbolism of Rudolph because I think that in the figure

of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, we do have an image of a birth of a mythological figure

where Rudolph seems to, more than the Marvel superheroes,

more than the Star Wars world,

seems to be playing a much more mythological function

than all those other characters.

And so we'll look at why that is and why his story seems to fit in order for Rudolph

to enter into a more participatory mode.

Music This is Jonathan rather modern figure.

You know, the figure of Rudolph, the Red Nose Rander is even more recent.

In fact, we even know who created Rudolph.

His name is Robert Lewis May.

And created him in 1939, wrote a small pamphlet, which was published by Montgomery Ward, a department store.

And since then, right away, the figure of Rudolph entered into the common imagination.

And it seems like Rudolph has become the closest thing to a kind of mythic

structure that we have in the modern world, let's say. I would say even more than Star Wars,

even more than the Marvel Comics. And I will give you a few of the elements which make us

understand that so that you can see how, why it is that Rudolph

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