Driving back from dinner Rob 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
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.
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