When a person is asked to list the colors of the rainbow in order, once in the head appears so familiar from childhood Counting "Every hunter wants to know where sits Pheasant".And according to the first letters of the phrase referred to the colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.It stored very easily, and most importantly, for life.Rainbow - an amazing natural phenomenon.It always causes some excitement, 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 man, because this phenomenon in the mythologies of all peoples of the world are correlated with the particularly favorable events.
order of rainbow colors associated with the refraction of white color in the prism.Refraction angle depends on the wavelength of light.And as the light pierces the two planes different colors are refracted at different angles.Thus, in the prism of the "included" a ray of white, and the "out" - a rainbow.Such Nicole (ie prism) in nature may be a drop of water or a thunderhead.To explain this phenomenon, and a rainbow of colors in the order could only in the XIII century Persian astronomers, but the fact remained closed for most of the inhabitants of the planet.And it continued to be perceived as a miracle.In magical rituals for a positive influence on the situation, or deliberately stained items stacked in the same order as the order in which the colors of the rainbow are.It was believed that such a system harmonizes the situation.
colors of the rainbow in the order placed, depending on the wavelength: the top the longest - red, below the shortest - blue.And the palette of colors and layout of all the peoples of the world was considered sacred, and the phenomenon understood as a bond of heaven and earth, gods and men.In the ancient Indian epic "Ramayana" rainbow called the divine bow of one of the supreme gods Indra, who lays out his arrows, lightning accompanied by thunder.In Old Norse treatise "Bifrost" this phenomenon is interpreted as a bridge that unites heaven and earth in the sacred moments.It guards the guardian.And before the death of the world of gods and the bridge collapses forever.
Islam rainbow colors in order are seen differently.They are only four: red, yellow, green, blue.And just as the Hindus, this phenomenon is considered the god of light onion Kuzaha that it affects the forces of darkness, and after the victory of arms hangs on a cloud.Ancient Slavs called rainbow symbol of the victory of the supreme god Perun over evil spirits.His wife Lada one end of the "heavenly rocker" draws water from the seas, oceans, and other waters of the earth by rain.At night, rainbow gods cherish in the constellation Ursa Major.There was a belief that if a long arc of seven colors did not appear above the ground, you should wait for hunger, disease, crop failure.
But in Christian times to all people planet rainbow became closer and clearer as a reminder of God's forgiveness of people at the end of the Flood.As an alliance, and the promise that God does not continue to become so severely punish people.Rainbow has become a symbol of beauty and peace of the heavenly fire.A color characterize God: purple - the nobility, orange - aspiration, blue - quiet, green - foreboding, yellow - the wealth, the blue - hope, red - a victory.
