Origin of rainbow: transformed butterflies (souls of lovers)

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Origin of rainbow: transformed butterflies (souls of lovers).

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The heavenly lights. · The heavenly lights. · view the constellation · filed as A791.9

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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.

ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 266.

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Filed under Origin of the Rainbow.

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