MDMD(5)----Rebekah

[Ted Samsel]

Soj sez:
> 
> 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.

I seem to recall Iemanja (Yemanja) a goddess in the Yoruba-vodoun-
candomble pantheon is associated with the rainbow.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net