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                            Notes about a rainbow

Driving back from dinner [1] Rob [2] and I saw a perfectly formed rainbow
across the sky, and just above it, so faint that it could be barly made out,
a second one.



> 12. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me
> and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual
> generations:
>
> 13. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant
> between me and the earth.
>
> 14. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that
> the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
>

Genesis 9:12-14 [3]

While in the Western world a rainbow is seen as something good, in certain
tribes in the Amazonian basin, rainbows are considered to be an ill omen or
of evil. I don't know for sure, but my guess would be that in the jungles,
animals that are poisonous to eat show this through bright colors in their
skin or plumage, while non-poisonous animals are more earth colors—greens or
browns. So things that are brightly colored should be avoided, and because
rainbows are brightly colored, they too, bode ill.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/10/11.1
[2] http://www.tragic-smurfs.com/
[3] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Genesis.9:12-14

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