One of the most important legends in Brazil is Iasá's history of the Cashinahuas tribe wich wants to narrate the origin of the first rainbow. This legend talk about a beautiful young woman that every man who saw her felt in love with her, but she only loved tupá, the son of the supreme god tupán. When Iasá was going to marry with tupá, the demon Anhangá had a lot of envy and decided to promise great success to the mother of Iasá in the fishing and the hunt; her mother decided to agree and to force Iasá to marry with this demon.
Iasá's last desire before marrying was going to see her dear Tupá, for it, she asked Anhangá for permission and he leaved her to go with the condition that she injured her arm, in order to follow her with the drops of blood that she was leaving; she agreed and during her way, tupá sent the god to the Sun, to the sky and to the sea for accompanying Iasá in her way and to confuse Anhangá with the three arches that they have to drew next to the red band. The Sun Guarací, drew a yellow arch, the sky Iuaca, drew a light blue arch, and the sea Pará, form a dark blue arch; On the other hand, Iasá don’t managed to arrive to the sky and to see Tupá, and she began to fall down slowly to the land; her blood was mixed first by Guarací's yellow band and an orange arch was formed and later with Iuaca's blue arch, drew another arch of violet color. When she felt down on the land, she died in a beach and her body raised a green arch formed by Pará's blue arch and Guarací's yellow one, and turned into the seventh arch that followed the path of the other six.
This legend is one of the samples of the cultural richness that has brazil and how our predecessors always were seeking to give an explanation of the natural phenomens. Nowadays, these legends only live in the Brazil habitant’s heart, which affects their cultural life but not their beliefs.
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