But by the time the Amsterdam descended to sea level in the final lock and cruised under the Bridge of the Americas, a rainbow had appeared on our port side, behind the distant silver high-rises of Panama City.
High says that "Muspell's sons" will ride across Bifröst, described in Gylfaginning as a rainbow bridge, and that the bridge will then break.
The complex is reached by crossing a rainbow bridge.
The ritual makes him a Seediq Bale, a hero able to cross a rainbow bridge to the ancestral mountain summit.
The rebellion's leader, Mouna Rudao, is still seen as a folk hero by many Taiwanese.The film emphasises the Seediq belief that only warriors with hands bloodied by slaughter can qualify for the afterlife (reached across a rainbow bridge).
At its first performance — "Das Rheingold," back in 2010 — the set's massive array of seesaws malfunctioned near the end, spoiling the gods' climactic ascent across a rainbow bridge.
The cyclone buries the grave under a mound of dirt, but a final image shows the lovers reunited, flying through the air across a rainbow bridge to the gate of a heavenly paradise.
The "Nova" consultants, inspired by a Sung dynasty painting of a rainbow bridge and using techniques that the Chinese might have used, manage to make an elegant and sturdy arch.
Fry offered up his friend, the late Douglas Adams, as a possible hero for TED and also someone who could be a "rainbow bridge" between the worlds of the arts and the sciences.
Still, this is a "Ring" in which Valhalla is a true fairy-tale castle in the sky, with a rainbow bridge for the gods who dwell there; in which Brünnhilde, after being laid to rest in a sleeping spell by Wotan, is engulfed by lapping flames and clouds of smoke; in which Siegfried forges his sword on a makeshift anvil in a leafy forest, not at some steamy modern-day steel plant.
