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The choice of the rainbow in the form of a flag harks back to the rainbow as a symbol of biblical promise. According to the Bible, God used the rainbow as a sign to Noah that there would never again be a worldwide flood, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] also known as the Rainbow covenant .
The rainbow is the unofficial symbol of Noahidism, recalling the Genesis flood narrative in which a rainbow appears to Noah after the Flood; it represents God's promise to Noah to refrain from flooding the Earth and destroying all life again.
Rainbow Brite uses the rainbow to travel between Rainbowland and Earth. Her horse Starlite has a rainbow mane and tail. The 1988 film The Serpent and the Rainbow; In the 1996 film Rainbow, damage to a rainbow threatens the world at large. In the 2009 film A Shine of Rainbows, the young protagonist is promised to be taken into a rainbow.
The rainbow is the unofficial symbol of Noahidism, recalling the Genesis flood narrative in which a rainbow appears to Noah after the Flood; it represents God's promise to Noah to refrain from flooding the Earth and destroying all life again. [1]
The rainbow is depicted as an archer's bow in Hindu mythology. Indra, the god of thunder and war, uses the rainbow to shoot arrows of lightning. [11] In pre-Islamic Arabian mythology, the rainbow is the bow of a weather god, Quzaḥ, whose name survives in the Arabic word for rainbow, قوس قزح qaws Quzaḥ, "the bow of Quzaḥ".
When the waters recede, God promises he will never destroy the world with water again, making a rainbow as a symbol of his promise. God sees humankind cooperating to build a great tower city, the Tower of Babel, and divides humanity with many languages and sets them apart with confusion. Then, a generation line from Shem to Abram is described.
The priestly covenant [28] (Hebrew: ברית הכהונה brith ha-kehuna) is the covenant that God made with Aaron and his descendants, the Aaronic priesthood, as found in the Hebrew Bible and Oral Torah. The Hebrew Bible also mentions another perpetual priestly promise with Phinehas and his descendants. [29] [30]
Yahweh causes a rainbow to form as the sign of this promise. [ 12 ] In Hindu mythology , texts such as the Satapatha Brahmana [ 13 ] ( c. 6th century BCE) [ 14 ] and the Puranas contain the story of a great flood, manvantara -sandhya , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] wherein the Matsya Avatar of the Vishnu warns the first man, Manu , of the impending flood, and ...