Rainbow comes out of an anthill

Motif

Rainbow comes out of an anthill.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The heavenly lights. · The heavenly lights. · view the constellation · filed as A791.8

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of the Rainbow.

1 finer motif beneath it

Rainbow lives in a hole

Filed beside it

Rainbow as bow of deity 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 Origin of rainbow: transformed butterflies (souls of lovers)Rainbow as covenant between creator and men

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