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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".
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Iris (/ ˈ aɪ r ɪ s /; EYE-riss; Ancient Greek: Ἶρις, romanized: Îris, lit. 'rainbow,' [2] [3] Ancient Greek:) is a daughter of the gods Thaumas and Electra, [4] the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods, a servant to the Olympians and especially Queen Hera.
The rainbow – one of the beauties of nature that the blind girl cannot experience – is used to underline the pathos of her condition. Noah's Thank Offering (c. 1803) by Joseph Anton Koch. Noah builds an altar to the Lord after being delivered from the Flood; God sends the rainbow as a sign of his covenant (Genesis 8–9).
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.
The god Heimdallr stands before the rainbow bridge while blowing his horn (1905) by Emil Doepler.. In Norse mythology, Bifröst (/ ˈ b ɪ v r ɒ s t / ⓘ [1]), also called Bilröst, is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (Earth) and Asgard, the realm of the gods.
It takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. It happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering, named after a British scientist who first ...
The rejection raised questions about how many signs schools had to display, whether the motto could be written in a language besides English, and whether the rainbow colors of the flag symbolizing ...
In Greek tradition, Zephyrus became the consort of Iris, the goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. According to Nonnus , a late-antiquity poet, together they became the parents of Pothos , [ 13 ] the god of desire, and according to Alcaeus of Mytilene (a six-century BC poet from the island of Lesbos ), of Eros as well, though he is ...