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Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod. Yee-Na-Pah, an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.
In pre-Islamic Arabian mythology, the rainbow is the bow of a weather god, Quzaḥ, whose name survives in the Arabic word for rainbow, قوس قزح qaws Quzaḥ, "the bow of Quzaḥ". The Sumerian farmer god Ninurta defended Sumer with a bow and arrow, and wore a crown described as a rainbow.
Rainbow Brite uses the rainbow to travel between Rainbowland and Earth. Her horse Starlite has a rainbow mane and tail. The 1988 film The Serpent and the Rainbow; In the 1996 film Rainbow, damage to a rainbow threatens the world at large. In the 2009 film A Shine of Rainbows, the young protagonist is promised to be taken into a rainbow.
The Rainbow Fish is a children's picture book drawn and written by Swiss author and illustrator, Marcus Pfister, and translated into English by J. Alison James.The book is best known for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish.
Haere, several personifications of the rainbow. Ikatere, a fish god and father of all sea creatures. Io Matua Kore, the supreme being; personification of light and the world of the living and the forest. Kahukura, a war god who appears as the upper bow of a double rainbow. Kiwa, one of several divine guardians of the ocean.
Thaumas, god of the wonders of the sea and father of the Harpies and the rainbow goddess Iris. Thetis, leader of the Nereids who presided over the spawning of marine life in the sea, mother of Achilles. Triteia, daughter of Triton and companion of Ares. Triton, fish-tailed son and herald of Poseidon. Tritones, fish-tailed spirits in Poseidon's ...
As Damballa slithered under the ocean, Ayida-Weddo flew across the sky in the form of the rainbow until the two loa reunited in Haiti, bringing Vodou to the Americas. [23] Ayida-Weddo is syncretized in Haitian Vodou with the Catholic figure of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception for her association with serpents and rainbow-colored cherubs.
Uenuku (or Uenuku-Kōpako, also given to some who are named after him [1]) is an atua of rainbows and a prominent ancestor in Māori tradition.Māori believed that the rainbow's appearance represented an omen, and one kind of yearly offering made to him was that of the young leaves of the first planted kūmara crop. [2]