Rainbow as bow of deity

Motif

Rainbow as bow of deity.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The heavenly lights. · The heavenly lights. · view the constellation · filed as A791.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section XIV
YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 4

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

SiberianHolmberg Siberian 443f.
general Gaster Thespis 261 n. 21

Within the index

Filed under Origin of the Rainbow.

Filed beside it

Rainbow as snake Rainbow made as bridge by the gods Rainbow has three colors Rainbow is a transformed king; the lesser rainbow is the king's wife Rainbow from gods' emptying their drinking cups Rainbow is horse of rain-god Rainbow comes out of an anthill Origin of rainbow: transformed butterflies (souls of lovers)Rainbow as covenant between creator and men

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