Show 1 belief amont lie 1 in many countries the rainbow 1 of as being a great bent pump or elphon tube drawing water from the earth by mechanical means in parts ot russia la the don country and also in moscow and vicinity it Is known by a name which Is equivalent to the bent water pipe in nearly all the slavonic dialects it Is known by terms the cloud alabon and in hungary it s the pump noade pump and gods pump the malayan natives call jt by the same name that they do their banded water cobra only that they add bobo meaning double headed the equivalent ID our language being the double headed they tell you that the bow Is a real thing of life that it drinks with its two mouths and that the water Is transferred to the clouds through an opening in the upper side of the center of the great arch in the province of chargoy Char koy russia the rainbow Is said to drain the wella and to prevent this many are provided with heavy tight stone platforms in the province of the bow la setd to be under control of three angels one of whom pumps the water the feeds the clouds and Uie third sends the rain |