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In Greek mythology, the goddess Iris is the personification of the rainbow, a messenger goddess who, like the rainbow, connects the mortal world with the gods through messages. [93] In Albanian folk beliefs the rainbow is regarded as the belt of the goddess Prende , and oral legend has it that anyone who jumps over the rainbow changes their sex.
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.
There are derivations of the rainbow flag that are used to focus attention on specific causes or groups within the community (e.g. transgender people, fighting the AIDS epidemic, inclusion of LGBTQ people of color). In addition to the rainbow, many other flags and symbols are used to communicate specific identities within the LGBTQ community.
The Pride flag and its rainbow colors are meaningful; here's the history of the LGBTQ+ community's flag and what it means.
The rainbow flag, which represents the entire LGBTQ community, is the most widely used pride flag. Numerous communities have embraced distinct flags, with a majority drawing inspiration from the rainbow flag.
After catching a moment that passed between Bluey's parents in a Season 2 episode, many parents believe the pup is a "rainbow baby," the name given to a baby born following a pregnancy loss.
Astronomers have detected the signal of a rainbow-like phenomenon known as the “glory effect” on a planet outside our solar system for the first time.
In the Anglo-Cornish dialect of Cornwall, United Kingdom, sun dogs are known as weather dogs (described as "a short segment of a rainbow seen on the horizon, foreshowing foul weather"). It is also known as a lagas in the sky which comes from the Cornish language term for the sun dog lagas awel meaning 'weather's eye' ( lagas , 'eye' and awel ...