I46C. Rainbow rope. (.27.) .29.33.34.39. (.46.)
Therainbow is the rope that cattle are tied to.
(Wed. The Balkans. Romanians (Moldova) [a rope created in the middle of the sky at the beginning of the world. It will be the frontier at the last judgment, when the devil and his (henchmen) and sinful souls take up one part of the rainbow. God with angels and righteous souls will take over the other side of the rainbow. Whoever wins will own all souls]: Brill 2005:167).
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Karachays [old Mamiya-Khan wits one thick out of seven ropes, throws one thick one out of seven ropes, throws Kaan-Kylych (one of the names of the rainbow), whose shadow falls to the ground]: Karaketov 1995:256; Armenians [mystery: bright striped rope]: Karapetyan 1979:173.
Turkestan. Kazakhs: Malyuga 1970 [khan asks the boy a riddle: "I got the colored lasso from hill to hill" (rainbow)]: 73; Potanin 1881 [rainbow - empirnyn kusagy (empire - old woman, bite - rope]: 127, 743; Chuloshnikov 1924 [there is an old woman of great stature among the people of the sky; she eats 40 rams, 40 cakes at once, drinks 40 months (leather vessels) of koumiss; she milks her colorful sheep after rain; then sheep are seen in the form of a rainbow, a kempir killer; a killer sak is two rows of sheep tied together to milk, closely headed along a rope stretched across the ground]: 242; Pamir Kyrgyz [ rainbow - "kempir kusak" ("old woman rope" - for tying cattle); explained as an old woman's canvas stretched out for drying]: Andreev 1927c: 22; karakhanids {in the correlation table conditionally classified as Uighurs} [(Mahmud al-Kashgari (Divan Lugat at-Turk"/"Collection of Turkic dialects", second half of the 11th century, Karakhanid State) [kukān "harness for young animals or cows in milking time"; yil kukan "rainbow"]: Mahmud al-Kashgari 2005, No. 2358:391.
Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Mongols [the man had two wives, they quarreled; the eldest had three sons, her mother-in-law cursed her; the daughter-in-law went to heaven with her two sons and all her cattle; now she ties her rams to the rainbow]: Potanin 1881:127.
SV Asia. Tundra (?) Yukaghirs [a rainbow is a rope for which either an old woman on the ground holds a (domestic) deer in the sky, or a heavenly old woman holds a deer on the ground]: O.A. Mudrak, personal communication, October 2004.
(Wed. Plains. Arapaho [rainbow is the Thunder forest where he catches hiintcäbiit water monsters; when lightning strikes the water, Thunder hits the monster; sometimes it is believed that the stream flows out of the monster's mouth; near Some people notice a lot of snakes sticking out their heads; in such places, clothes are tied to trees and offerings are left; if the stream dries up, it means that the Thunder has taken the monster away]: Kroeber 1907c: 317).