Canada Rainbow,
Seven colors. Purple, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red.
Evil scientist tell us that the reason for the rainbow to exist is that light reflects in the water drops, and different length waves bounce in different angles, causing the light composed of all seven colors, to spread out and show the colors.
Of course being an explanation from the evil scientists, is more complicated, and becomes boring.
Then when I was little in religion school, they taught us, that Noah, build and arc, put lots of animals inside, and then God, make it rain for 40 days, and everything was flooded, at the end, God promised never to make it rain that much, and as a sign of His promises, he created the rainbow, to appear after every rain. Of course one can see it the other way, as a reminder that rain can destroy if it last 40 days. Or in the case of my island even less days.
Another explanation, came from the boy scouts, the colors where fighting to decide which one was the prettiest one, so Mother Nature became sad of hearing them fight, and she cried, or in simple words, it rained. But the colors kept fighting. So she got angry, and screamed, and so came lighting, . Colors became scared, and become closer, hugging themselves, and so the rainbow appeared for the first time. Mother Nature was impressed by the beauty of the rainbow, that she stopped crying and screaming. And from that day, whenever it rains colors put a rainbow to stop it.
I like that last one the most.
