MDMD(5)----Rebekah

[Sojourner]

At 12:19 PM 8/12/97 -0700, David Casseres wrote:

>And by no means forget that most inexorable and mysterious of physical 
>forces, the one that shapes that Rainbow: gravity.  Which may indeed be 
>an aspect of "the deeper Earth goddess force."
>

Perhaps.  

Genesis Chapter 9

[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:

According to my New English Bible, the rainbow was seen as a weapon
of the gods, as a huge weapon used by the supernatural deities which
ruled them.  In all instances I have seen, there is no tension between
the bow (after the rain) and any ground force(s) or grounded gods/
goddesses.  It is similar in a way to lightning and thunder being the
weapons of Thor/Zeus.