Over the years, I have made many videos on the subject of Christmas, talking, of course, about the nativity, but then about everything, the Christmas tree, Santa Claus, Rudolph, so many aspects of the Christmas season. We just are going to put out a video this year about the massacre of the innocence, because in some ways we're kind of running out of things to talk about in terms of Christmas.

And I thought this would be a good opportunity to repost a video that my team thinks is probably my best explanation of the symbolism of the Christmas story and the Christmas icon and why Christmas has all the elements that it has.

But this is also an invitation for you to go back. There's actually a list, a video list of all the Christmas

stuff that I've talked about, you know, a way to go back and look at the Christmas videos that

I've done because, like I said, I don't like talking about them twice. So we might also repost every year, maybe a Christmas video

for it to remind people that it's all there

in the old videos on the YouTube channel.

And so please enjoy our video on why it is the Christmas,

how it is the Christmas,

founds the world.

Music the Christmas founds the world.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. For those who don't know maybe who I am, my job, I'm an icon carver, which is a bit strange

for some people. There aren't that many icon carvers. Actually,

probably, they're probably in America like one, I think. Maybe two. Maybe, there are maybe two.

There's more in Greece, there are more in Russia, obviously, but it's not something that is very useful,

very, I hope it's useful, not something that's very usual, hope that

wasn't a little Freudian slip there, it's not very usual. And as I discovered traditional art

and Orthodox art, you know, learning my own skill, but also exploring the icons themselves and their symbolism

and their relationships between the icons and scripture and the liturgy and the architecture,

and really discovering this beautiful pattern that we have in our faith that's been passed down and kept for thousands of years now.

It's something that I find a lot of joy in, and so one of the things I'm also doing is I'm on making YouTube videos, and I talk about some of this stuff. I talk about iconography, but also how the traditional symbolism that we have in our liturgy and our icons

in scripture, how it actually connects to everyday life.

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