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The Pogues' "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge": Albert Bridge is a bridge across the Thames river; MC Frontalot's song "Floating Bridge" is literally about different types of bridges. Andy Partridge (of XTC) and Harold Budd – "Tenochtitlan's Numberless Bridges": Tenochtitlan was an Aztec island city with many waterways, canals, and bridges
In Japanese mythology, the Floating Bridge of Heaven may have been inspired by the rainbow. The creator deities Izanami and Izanagi stood upon this bridge as they brought the Japanese archipelago into existence. [12] In Navajo tradition, the rainbow is the path of the holy spirits, and is frequently depicted in sacred sandpaintings. [13]
The Rainbow Bridge (pets) is said to be an afterlife for pets, where deceased animals wait to be reunited with their humans owners once they too pass on. 'Gone to the Rainbow Bridge' and 'helped across the Rainbow Bridge' are used as euphemisms for a pet dying or being put to sleep, respectively.
[1]. Love padlocks by night on Butchers' Bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia Love without locks campaign, Passerelle Debilly, Paris. A love lock or love padlock is a padlock that couples lock to a bridge, fence, gate, monument, or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. [2]
A bridge is a structure built to ... of the same meaning. [1] [2]: bridge 1 ... a bridge will be built over an artificial waterway as symbolic of a passage to an ...
Scholar Andy Orchard suggests that Bifröst may mean "shimmering path." He notes that the first element of Bilröst—bil (meaning "a moment")—"suggests the fleeting nature of the rainbow," which he connects to the first element of Bifröst—the Old Norse verb bifa (meaning "to shimmer" or "to shake")—noting that the element evokes notions of the "lustrous sheen" of the bridge. [3]
Ruby Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she was the first Black child to walk into an all-white school in New Orleans. How these Passaic students honored Ruby Bridges' bravery with a symbolic ...
[159] [160] Adams Holland opines it would have been originally the name of a small bridge connecting the Tiber Island (on which she supposes the first shrine of Janus stood) with the right bank of the river. [161] However Janus was the protector of doors, gates and roadways in general, as is shown by his two symbols, the key and the staff. [162]