Another Rainbow

 
Second rainbow this week.

I don't know but seeing rainbows makes mabe and I happy.

Even a fairy movie is not complete without a rainbow scene.

So because of this second rainbow this week, I goggled some rainbow myths:

• The rainbow as the heavenly archer's bow also dominates ancient Hindu mythology. Indra the Hindu god of thunder and war, uses the rainbow to shoot arrows of lightning - killing the Azura Vrta, a primordial demon-serpent.

• In Armenian mythology, rainbow - is a belt of Tir, which was originally a god Sun, and then - god of knowledge. Eating options are apricot's belt, the belt of Our Lady or the Arch of God.

• The creation of the Navajo people involved "a pair of rainbows crossed like rafters at the zenith of a proto-world so small that the 'heads and feet of the rainbows almost touched the men's heads'".

• In a Chinese folktale, Hsienpo and Yingt'ai are star-crossed lovers who must wait until the rainbow appears to be alone together. Hsienpo is the red in the rainbow, and Yingt’ai is the blue.

• The Sumu of Honduras and Nicaragua "may simply refer to the rainbow as walasa aniwe, ‘the devil is vexed’". These people hide their children in their huts to keep them from looking or pointing at the rainbow.

• The Fang of Gabon (Africa) are initiated into the religion by a "transcendent experience when they arrive at the rainbow's center, for there they can see both the entire circle of the rainbow and of the earth, signaling the success of their vision." The Fang also prohibit their children from looking at the rainbow.

• For Buddhists, the rainbow is "the highest state achievable before attaining Nirvana, where individual desire and consciousness are extinguished."

• For Karens of Burma, the rainbow is considered as a painted and dangerous demon that eats children.

• Izanami and Izanagi, the male and female creators of the world in Japanese myth, "descended on the Floating Bridge of Heaven to create land from the ocean of chaos." In many texts this bridge is known as a rainbow.

• In ancestral times in Japan, rainbows were often viewed as omens of bad luck because they represented snakes.

• A belief of southern Gabon is that our human ancestors (Freesians) arrived here by descending on the rainbow.

• Shamans among Siberia's Buryats speak of ascending to the sky-spirit world by way of the rainbow.

• In Bulgarian legends, it is said that if you walk beneath a rainbow, you will change genders: if a man, you'll begin to think like a woman, and if a woman, you'll begin to think like a man. While most people in the capital don't believe in the superstition, some of them tease each other and joke around. They might also say "The sun is shining, the rain is falling, a bear is getting married"(roughly translated-in the original verse, the last part rhymes).

• In Ireland, a common legend asserts that a "pot of gold" is to be found at the end of a rainbow, for the person lucky enough to find it. This treasure is, however, guarded by a  Leprauchaun. 

• In Amazonian cultures, rainbows have long been associated with malign spirits that cause harm, such as miscarriages and (especially) skin problems. In the Amuesha language of central Peru, certain diseases are called ayona’achartan, meaning "the rainbow hurt my skin". A tradition of closing one's mouth at the sight of a rainbow in order to avoid disease appears to pre-date the Incan empire.

Source: Wikipedia