The white rainbow Drawing

THE RAINBOW: DEFINITION AND MEANING It is a striking and surprising spectacle, which cannot leave you indifferent: the rainbow is an optical phenomenon that occurs when the sunlight passes through the drops of water left suspended in the air following a storm. Emblem of hope, of descent from heaven to earth, it represents a magical vision crystallized in antiquity in a myth and in a name: Iris, daughter of Taumante (the wonder) and Electra (the splendor). Ocean nymph, she was a beautiful girl with a waving dress of a thousand colors, a quick messenger of the gods between heaven and earth, and handmaid of Hera, divinity of the air. The concept of the rainbow interpreted as a link between heaven and earth, the essence of Greek mythology, is then found in the mythology of all those other peoples who called it arch. A reference, that of the aforementioned term, to the bridge, arch suspended in the void that connects two points, and to the arch as a weapon, with the same curved shape and used to shoot the arrow, also joining two points. So the rope and the target. Since the sun launches its rays like darts that produce the rainbow, the arc is that of Apollo, the solar deity.