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This ' Rainbow Serpent ' is generally and variously identified by those who tell ' Rainbow Serpent ' myths, as a snake of some enormous size often living within the deepest waterholes of many of Australia's waterways ; descended from that larger being visible as a dark streak in the Milky Way, it reveals itself to people in this world as a rainbow as it moves through water and rain, shaping landscapes, naming and singing of places, swallowing and sometimes drowning people ; strengthening the knowledgeable with rainmaking and healing powers ; blighting others with sores, weakness, illness, and death.
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In recent years, the tea has been popularized by Wade Davis ( The Serpent and The Rainbow ), English novelist Martin Goodman in I Was Carlos Castaneda, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, writer Kira Salak, author Jeremy Narby ( The Cosmic Serpent ), author Jay Griffiths (" Wild: An Elemental Journey "), and radio personality Robin Quivers.
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* NYE2000: Rainbow Serpent and Federation Star ;
Several decades later, Wade Davis, a Harvard ethnobotanist, presented a pharmacological case for zombies in two books, The Serpent and the Rainbow ( 1985 ) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie ( 1988 ).
Other zombie-themed films include Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie ( 1943 ) and Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow, ( 1988 ) a heavily fictionalized account of Wade Davis ' book.
The Rainbow Serpent ( also known as the Rainbow Snake ) is a major mythological being for Aboriginal people across Australia, although the creation myth associated with it are best known from northern Australia.
Ayida-Weddo is known as the Rainbow Serpent.
Australian Carpet Python, being one of the forms the ' Rainbow Serpent ' character may take in ' Rainbow Serpent ' myths
Radcliffe-Brown coined the term ' Rainbow Serpent ' to describe what he identified to be a common, recurring myth.
Working in the field in various places on the Australian continent, he noted the key character of this myth ( the ' Rainbow Serpent ') is variously named:
Even Australia's ' Bunyip ' was identified as a ' Rainbow Serpent ' myth of the above kind.
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They appear alone or in groups, vertically or horizontally depending on the dimensions of the rock, and can be depicted with figures and objects like the Rainbow Serpent or yams.
There are also images of the Rainbow Serpent said to have created much of the landscape as well as mischievous Mimi spirits and the story of the Namarrgarn Sisters.
The Aboriginal Waanyi people have lived in the gorge area for at least 17, 000 years and know this place as Boodjamulla, or Rainbow Serpent country.
Accounts of Aborigines believing the site to be eggs of the mythical Rainbow Serpent are incorrect.
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* 1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
In AABA forms, the B section is usually referred to as the bridge ; often a brief coda, sometimes based on material from the bridge, was added as in " Over the Rainbow ".
The Gaia philosophy is a guiding principle for terrorists in the Tom Clancy novel Rainbow Six.
* 1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
* A Mars Direct scheme is used in Larry Niven's novel Rainbow Mars.
* The title Larry Niven's Rainbow Mars ( 1999 ) alludes to Robinson's three-colored Mars trilogy, and the plot concerns a time machine that is used to visit ancient Mars.
Not to be confused with the later television show, Mad TV is a television station management simulation computer game produced in 1991 by Rainbow Arts for the Mad franchise.
The Nirvana song " Rainbow Chaser " is thought to be the first-ever British recording to feature the audio effect known as phasing or flanging throughout an entire track, as distinct from occasionally within a song such as the Small Faces in " Itchycoo Park ".
* Peenemünde is a setting in the novels Fatherland, Gravity's Rainbow, Moonraker, The Rhinemann Exchange, The Way the Crow Flies, Space, and Vengeance 10.
In Captain Rainbow, Crazy Tracy from Link's Awakening is one of the featured characters where she wants to enslave all men in the world.
The Rainbow Affair is notable for its thinly disguised cameo appearances by The Saint, Miss Marple, John Steed, Emma Peel, Tommy Hambledon ( at whose flat Solo and Ilya encounter Steed and Peel ), Neddie Seagoon, Father Brown, a retired, elderly Sherlock Holmes, and Dr. Fu Manchu.
Another child of Gaia and Pontus is Thaumas, who marries Electra, a sister of Doris, and has Iris ( Rainbow ) and two Harpies.
It is code-named Rainbow, and Clark is put in command of the unit with the simulated rank of Major General.
In the book Rainbow Six, Rainbow is first put into operation.
This is eventually determined to have been ordered by a radical eco-terrorist group, which Rainbow tracks down and destroys in the last pages of the novel.
Clark's next appearance is in The Bear and the Dragon, where he is still the head of Rainbow.
In the novel, Rainbow is temporarily reassigned from its anti-terrorist duties to the Russian-Chinese war being fought in Siberia.
Neither Clark nor Rainbow appears in The Teeth of the Tiger, but it is revealed that Rainbow is still operating.
Clark returns in Dead or Alive, in which he is part of a Rainbow team that successfully rescues all hostages taken by terrorists at the Swedish embassy in Libya.
Rainbow and generally
But the game industry generally credits games such as Rainbow Six with defining and refining the tactical shooter genre.
Bruton's Rainbow Coalition was generally perceived to be a good government, with Bruton, who was meant to have had a bad relationship with Tánaiste Dick Spring, being seen as its star performer.
AMC was originally a premium cable channel that aired classic movies during the afternoons and early evenings, largely pre-1950s, in a commercial-free, generally unedited, uncut, and uncolorized format ; the channel was originally a joint venture between Rainbow Media and Tele-Communications, Inc.
In 1982 the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson adopted the name of " Rainbow Coalition " for organizing multi-ethic groups to support and vote for liberal ( generally Democratic ) candidates for public office, in order to strengthen minority voices by acting in collaboration.
However, by 2002 the international community thought the electoral system generally free, as KANU peacably transferred power to the National Rainbow Coalition ( NARC ).
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* Thomas Pynchon's three novels Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day are historical, and they variously contrast outrageous personal, subjective, hallucinogenic or even supernatural events with very real, well-researched accuracies from the past.
It was a nationwide network of prefectural assembly members, usually running on local platforms variously named as " living citizen network ", " living club ", " living cooperative " or the Rainbow and Greens 500-Member List Movement.
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