A Philippine Myth
Myths try to explain many kinds of natural phenomena: why there is rain, rainbow, thunder, lightning, earthquake, eclipse, and the like. The rain is believed by many as the tears shed by a man longing for his vanished wife, a Diwata (fairy) throwing out water in the sky.The rainbow is believed to be the flower loving daughter of Bathala, who was cursed by the latter to stay on earth forever because of her failure to attend a family council ordered by the Bathala. Other believed that the rainbow is not a person but a road from the sky to the earth that a man built so that his star wife and child could visit him without any difficulty.
A long time ago Gods lived on the earth most of the time.
One day Bathala wanted to controll her Palace.
So She rode her horse and started to travel across the ocean,but when she arrived at the horizon her horse stopped and went back because the jump was too long even for him.
So Bathala ordered to her servants to let down a carpet of seven colours,so Bathala and her horse walked the rainbow.
It is very interesting to read in your blog such a myth.
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