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II. RAIN.—The Shoshoni philosopher believes the domed firmament to be ice, and surely it is the very colour of ice,.and he believes further that a monster serpent-god coils his huge back to the firmament, and with his scales abrades its face and causes the ice-dust to fall upon the earth. In the winter time it falls as snow, but in the summer time it melts and falls as rain, and the Shoshoni philosopher actually sees the serpent of the storm in the rainbow of many colours.
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Mythologic Philosophy 1 . Nature 21, 333–334 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021333a0
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