Summary
Patrick Boman: Dictionary of Rain
Among the determinants of this Dictionary are rain deities from all mythologies and religions of the world from Latin America to Japan, folklore customs of various nations related to rainfall, descriptions of rain and its meaning in literary and other works of art, songs, sayings and children's rhymes with the motif of rain, as well as terms related to rain symbolism, etymology, ethnology, anthropology, psychology, art... "So what if it rains, and we shiver and grunt when we're wet, while water pours from our noses," says Boman at the beginning of his book. "We just need to dry off! However, it's not quite like that. Although it is a cliché and a forgotten truth compared to the pleasure of the sun and the somewhat miserable, generally accepted heliolatry, this beneficial rainfall, which wets and nourishes the fields, also soaks our imagination, opening up a huge space for thinking - Regenreich, the 'realm of rain' by Rose Auslander."
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