Rainbows in culture Rainbows in culture The rainbow, a natural phenomenon noted for its design and its place in the sky, has been a favorite component of art and religion throughout history. The rainbow has a place in legend owing to its beauty and the historical difficulty in explaining the phenomenon. In Greco-Roman mythology, the rainbow was considered to be a path made by a messenger (Iris) between Earth and Heaven. In Chinese mythology, the rainbow was a slit in the sky sealed by goddess Nüwa using stones of five different colours. The Irish leprechaun's secret hiding place for his pot of gold
At the End of the Rainbow mind-boggling children's film, straight from the mid-Sixties, when Americans would dump their youth at the local theater's "Kiddie Matinee" and subject the poor tots to all manner of cinematic torture. Such as "The Princess and the Magic Frog", a long-unseen rarity that's so hilariously impoverished, it makes "Jimmy, the Boy Wonder" look like a multimillion-dollar work of art. [...] There's more that a whiff of "Wizard of Oz" wafting through "The Princess and the Magic Frog", from the child who can't find his way home, to the Wicked Witch, er...Wizard, to the search for the end of the rainbow." With