Re: [tied] Rainbow IE

There are quite a few Old Indian terms, usually meaning something like 'Indra's bow ~ weapon' (indra:yudha, s'akra:yudha 'the Mighty One's weapon', surapatica:pa 'the Lord's bow') or 'jewel-bow' (maNidhanu). Just the expected thing, from the typological point of view.

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: João Simões Lopes Filho

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 6:12 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Rainbow IE

Thanks. That's interesting, linked to a goddess Vaiva. The Baltic mythology glossaries usually cited a god Diviriks linked to rainbow. I saw the site you sugest and picked many examples.

I can see rainbow is usually called "rain-bow", "sky-bow", "bow of deity X", "girdle of deity X), "rod of deity X".

It would be interesting to know Indo-Iranian terms... I will see the on-line dictionaries...