Rudolph was a young North Pole reindeer who, unlike other animals of her species, had an unusual bright red nose.
Because of this, little Rudolph was derided and marginalized by other reindeer.
One evening on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus was worried about a thick fog that prevented the sight of his reindeer. When he noticed Rudolph’s bright nose, he asked Rudolph to illuminate the path to make it possible to deliver the gifts.
Rudolph accepted and from that night he joined the team of Santa’s reindeer.
To tell for the first time of Rudolph was the writer Robert L.May in 1939 in a libretto published by Montgomery Ward.
It should be noted that the ancient Euro-Asian tribes already made the reindeer the protagonist of religious tales and sacrificial rituals.
People of Northern Europe worshipped the solar deity Suale who traveled in the sky on a chariot pulled by reindeer dropping fragments of amber, symbol of the sun and its light.
A very similar deity was also present among the Lappish: Beivve, Goddess of the Sun, was considered the mother of everything existing.
It was believed that she took care of the reindeer babies.
Beivve also took on different aspects during the day, but at sunset he always took the form of a reindeer.
For all the ancient peoples of Northern Europe the reindeer represented travel, strength, persistence, wisdom, and resourcefulness. It was also believed that their horns held the memories of the ancestors because the task entrusted to the reindeer was to accompany the souls of the deceased in the afterlife dimensions.
תגובות