When a person is asked to list the colors of the rainbow in order, such a familiar counting rhyme from childhood immediately appears in his head: "Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant is sitting." And according to the first letters of this phrase, the colors are called: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Memorable
very easy, and most importantly, for life. The rainbow is an amazing natural phenomenon. She always causes some kind of delight, even in the hearts of the elderly. The soul begins to believe in magic and miracles. Perhaps this is due to the genetic memory of a person, because this phenomenon in the mythologies of all the peoples of the world is correlated with especially favorable events.
The order of the colors of the rainbow is related to the refraction of white in a prism. The angle of refraction is directly related to the wavelength of the light. And since light pierces two planes, different colors are refracted at different angles. Thus, a white ray "enters" the prism, and a rainbow "comes out". Such a nicole (that is, a prism) in nature can be a drop of water or
storm front. Persian astronomers were able to explain this phenomenon and the colors of the rainbow in order only in the 13th century, but the fact remained closed to most of the inhabitants of the planet. And it continued to be regarded as a miracle. In magical rituals, in order to positively influence the situation, objects were painted or deliberately folded in the same sequence in which the colors of the rainbow go. It was believed that such a system harmonizes the situation.
The colors of the rainbow are arranged in order depending on the wavelength: the longest is red on top, the shortest is blue on the bottom. Both the palette and the arrangement of flowers were considered sacred by all the peoples of the world, and the phenomenon itself was understood as a connection between heaven and earth, gods and people. In the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, a rainbow is called the divine bow of one of the supreme gods Indra, who throws lightning bolts from it, accompanied by thunder. In the Old Norse treatise "Bivrest", this phenomenon is interpreted as a bridge that unites heaven and earth at sacred moments. It is guarded by a guard. And before the death of the world and the gods, this bridge will collapse forever.
In Islam, the colors of the rainbow are seen differently in order. There are only four of them: red, yellow, green, blue. And just like the Hindus, this phenomenon was considered the bow of the god of light Kuzah, with which he strikes the forces of darkness, and after the victory hangs weapons on the clouds. The ancient Slavs called the rainbow a symbol of the victory of the supreme god Perun over the spirits of evil. His wife Lada draws water from the seas-oceans at one end of the "heavenly yoke", and pours rain over the earth from the other. At night, the gods carefully keep the rainbow in the constellation Ursa Major. There was a belief: if the seven-color arc did not appear above the ground for a long time, then one should expect hunger, disease, crop failure.
But in Christian times, the rainbow became closer and clearer to all the people of the planet as a reminder of God's forgiveness of people at the end of the Flood. As the conclusion of an alliance and a promise that henceforth the Almighty will not punish the people so cruelly. The rainbow has become a symbol of beautiful heavenly fire and peace. And the colors characterized God: purple - nobility, orange - aspiration, blue - silence, green - premonitions, yellow - we alth, blue - hope, red - victory.
