One day when Gimba was resting in his room, a crow flew across his window. On the second day, a robin flew by. On the third day, he saw an unusual rainbow. He watched it for several hours. This particular rainbow had fourteen beautiful colours instead of the seven colours usually seen. Gimba did not understand why the rainbow had so many colours so he was curious to learn more about the rainbow, but it ultimately vanished. He has difficulties in sleeping because he thinks about the discrepancies between the seven and the fourteen rainbow colours, it puzzled him and he also wondered about the birds that flew by his windows. He was sure that there was some kind of a link between the rainbow and the birds. Two months later, the rainbow re-appeared and invited Gimba to a long trip. That particular day Gimba went to bed in the early hours. The rainbow talked to Gimba in symbols. Everything seemed genuine in his mind. He suddenly woke up in the hours of darkness and was in panic. He was covered with sweat all over his body and his beddings were soaked. Gimba glanced at his window and observed a Black-Crowned Night heron. Gimba had seen the bird before. It was a group of birds that generally rested and hid in trees in a wet area. During daytime they relaxed and hid in trees. They fed at dark, eating fishes and shells. They bred in nesting colonies in mangroves. They often nested in colonies. It hung around for its prey consisted of frogs and fish and caught them up with its bill. In addition it fed on amphibian's insects, crabs, molluscs, and other invertebrates. They bred on every continent apart from Australia and Antarctica. They were more often than not seen in marsh surroundings, forests, along river banks, wooded swamps, mangroves, and from time to time in grasslands or rice fields. It flew about in large flocks and as a rule at night during winter time of the year to the southern United States.

THE MOON

The Moon was glamorous and the birds were singing melodious s songs. The moon was clear and bright and the stars were, glowing. According to Gimba`s parents, he knew that The Moon was a little more than 380,000 kilometres distant from the Earth with a diameter of more than 3,000 kilometres. The rotation of the Moon and its circle around Earth took less than 28 days. Movement of the earth with the moon was due to unequal distribution of masses on the Moon, allowing Earth’s gravity to keep the lunar hemisphere turned permanently towards it. The Moon was, destroyed during the long forgotten era allowing its rocks to form or create something like deserts, buried and obliterated. Meteors and meteorites formed brought a varied and diversified strikingly unusual and often very colourful, exciting and unfamiliar cultures of many different rock types exposing the Moon rocks and making them appreciable. Because the Moon had neither a mixture of gases that surrounds an astronomical object such as the Earth nor water, the constituent substance in the soils did not have a state of the atmosphere with regard to temperature, cloudiness, rainfall, wind, and other meteorological conditions. It was thus; considered, dead because the rocks, minerals, and physical structure of a specific area did not exist thus, the Moon was outdated, fixed, and unchanging, incapable of change. Gimba
watched the moon in all its glory thinking of the many legends of werewolves throughout the centuries depicting human beings changing into werewolves by the light of the Full Moon. The full moon on December 12 was, called the ’Little Spirit Moon’ by some tribes. The following full moon was on January. The Moon had a rich cultural -relating to the arts, intellectual activity, and symbolic history that went beyond a limit or range, of thought or belief of many cultures. It still presents a mystery to some tribes. The bird sang a song of a melodious melody. Birds on the whole are, linked to the animal kingdom. Within the highest classification for natural things, they are, grouped under Phylum Chordates. Chordates are, defined as organisms that possess a structure called a notochord. The notochord is a rod that extends most of the length of the body. The birds asked Gimba to follow them to the wonderful rainbow. He put on his school uniform and made himself a sandwich with a single slice of bread with a topping.

GIMBA BEGAN HIS JOURNEY Hiding here and there, he followed the golden eagle to a dense forest. There were tall trees and indeed, the forest was impenetrable. Gimba was exhausted, his heart was jumping out of his chest and everything looked dimmed and dark. He was hungry and thirsty and out of food. Although, he felt that he had been stubborn, but he was determined to prove that he was stronger and had energy to prevail. He saw the rainbow's colours- red, orange yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. However, since he saw fourteen colours he was curious to see the overlapping bows of individually pure spectral colours of the rainbow and not only mixtures. He knew that any one colour of the bow had longer wavelength colours mixed in because he saw some amount of green in the blue and lesser amount of yellow in the red. Gimba was excited. In Gambia's anxiety and desperation, he sat on one of the branches of some of the trees of the forest. He did not know that the particular branch of a tree was purposely meant for him. All of a sudden, the branch broke into two. Gimba fell deeper down into a big opening. The opening consisted of a hollow central opening with numerous interlocking fine strands of feathers on either side. He saw a narrow tunnel but it widened as he moved swiftly and cleanly further down the tunnel. Gimba proceeded under difficult conditions because of the narrow and the winding nature of the tunnel. He was scared and felt he was on his way to hell. He moved through something solid. He dug with his hands and created a space. There was a bend which widened into another huge hall. It was horrifying. Gimba suddenly saw a subway leading to a chamber. It was shaped like a horseshoe. Unexpectedly, a woman emerged. It was Medusa.

MEDUSA

Gimba remembered that long ago a beautiful girl by the name Medusa lived in Athens. She was so beautiful that she became egoistic. She claimed to be the only pleasurable girl in town. She boasted daily about her skin and body and maintained that her hair glistered and shone more than the sun. She looked at her hair every day in the mirror or water. She was egocentric and self-centred. In fact, she spent her entire life looking in a mirror and admiring herself. One day she joined her friends to visit the temple of, goddess of wisdom. The temple was decorated with beautiful sculptures and paintings. At the temple, she boasted again about her beauty and how inspirational her beauty changed people's lives. Athena could not take such egotism and silenced Medusa with a discouraged wave. She told Medusa that beauty in mortals passed away quickly like the wind of the desert. Beauty did not give comfort to the sick, educate people or gave food to the hungry. Athena was so angry that Medusas beauty was stripped away to serve as a reminder to people who boasted about themselves. Medusa's face altered to that of a monster, her hair twisted and thickened into ugly snakes. There was never peace and tranquillity amongst the snakes on her hair. They always fought each other. Athena cursed medusa that her face would turn men into stone. She was also warned not to look at her reflection in water or in a mirror or else she would turn into rock. Medusa was sent to live with the blind monsters, the gorgon sisters who lived at the end of the earth so that harmless people would not by chance turn into stone by looking at her. Medusa asked Gimba not to be afraid. Gimba was not turned into stone but everything else in the tunnel was turned into stone. Gimba spent ten years with the medusa, studying and learning about the continuous cycle of things and processes that became larger and more matured through natural development. He learnt about alternative expansion, contraction, thoughtful concern for, and sensitivity toward the feelings of others. He learnt that happiness did not heal but protected against falling ill.

TIME FOR GIMBA TO FLY

It was time for Gimba to fly to find the rainbow. Medusa provided a gigantic bird, Argent avis magnificent to search for the particular rainbow. He finally reached the end of the world where nothing survived. The bird, now extinct, was first located in Argentina some six million years ago hence the name, Argentavis magnificence. It had every characteristic of an aircraft. It was the largest bird ever found on the planet earth. The large flying bird flew Gimba around the Globe but first on an isolated Island.

THE NORTH POLE

From the Island the bird flew Gimba to the North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, a point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation met the Earth's surface. It was the northernmost point on Earth; its opposite was the South Pole. At the North Pole all directions pointed south and the region was permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice. The Geographic North Pole, "true north" was located near the middle of the Arctic Ocean about 450 miles (725 km) north of Greenland. The north and south poles was the pinnacle and floor of the Earth's axis, around which it rotated. It was to be found at 90° North latitude and was the northernmost point on the Earth's surface. Gimba could not fly farther north, east and west. Gimba did not find any rainbow apart from other illusions. The bird decided to fly Gimba to the South Pole. So, on they flew after a forth night. The earth was a ball; North and South, the ends of the ball, axis were the North and South Poles. The Equator, a line around the earth, an equal distance from both poles had 0 degrees. It was the starting point of measuring latitudes. Lines outside of the Earth, to find points, were called latitude and longitude. They were measured in degrees, and represented angular distances from the centre of the Earth. All lines of latitude were parallel to the Equator and were evenly spaced and parallel. The longitude line ran perpendicular to lines of latitude, and all pass through both poles. Each longitude line was part of a huge circle. There was no really 0-degree point for longitude as there was for latitude. The line through Greenwich, England was given the value of 0 degrees of longitude, the Prime Meridian.

THE SOUTH POLE

The bird flew Gimba through the longitudinal line from the North Pole to the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, the southernmost point on the surface of the ball with the hope to find a rainbow with 14 colours. It was on the continent of Antarctica. The region was uninspired, inhospitable, lonely, bare and barren with icy flat terrain. It was colder than the North Pole and without warmth and it lay on a high attitude. The sunlight did not reach the surface of the region because it was reflected by the white snow. The South Pole was located at an altitude of a land mass, while the North Pole was located at sea level of an ocean, a reservoir of heat. At the South Pole, Gimba waited to find the unusual rainbow.

GIMBA AND THE BUTTERFLIES

After some weeks, Gimba suddenly observed some beautiful and gorgeous butterflies. He meticulously and methodically studied them. He was bored and had to do something. They were large rough winged flying insects. The wings produced strong ultraviolet and polarising effects. Their bright colours disguised them into plants and tricked their killers. Like all insects, they had six jointed legs, three body parts, and a pair of antennae, multiple eyes, and an exoskeleton, a hard outer structure, such as the shell of an insect or crustacean, such familiar animals as crabs that provides protection or support for an organism. The three body parts were the head, thorax (the chest), and belly (the tail end). Tiny sensory, part of the nervous system, hairs cover their bodies. The four wings and the six legs of the butterfly were, attached to the thorax. The thorax contained the muscles that made the legs and wings move. Their two pairs of large wings were, covered with colourful, lustrous and brilliant appearance. Scales in overlapping rows made them excellent fliers. They had rainbow colours that appeared to move and change as the angle at which they were seen changes. Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) were the only insects with scaly wings. The wings were attached to the middle part of the thorax. Tiny veins supported the delicate wings and nourished them with blood. They could only fly if their body temperature was above 86 degrees. Thus, they sun themselves to warm up in cool weather. As they aged, the colour of the wings faded and the wings became ragged.

The speed of different butterflies varied among butterfly species. The poisonous varieties were slower than non-poisonous varieties. The fastest could fly about 40 miles per hour but the slow flying ones could fly five miles per hour.

Time passed and there was still no sign of the leprechauns. Gimba was sure that the leprechauns were indeed butterflies. He remained calm and composed. He never panicked. He was not sure that the butterflies were the Leprechauns. He had observed that the universe was made up of colours and that even every human being had at least twelve colours. He counted the colour of our hair, eyebrows, pubis hair, hair in the armpits, nails, lips, the eye, skin, the many multi-coloured clothes we wear, the socks and stockings, shoes and others. Thus, he was sure that life consisted of colours which began with a new born with seven visible colours.

GIMBA`S FIRST MEETING WITH LEPRECHAUNS

At a distant on an Island in the middle of nowhere, Gimba saw some figures. They had funny green hats and curled moustaches. They were fourteen of them dancing on an Island. Gimba hid somewhere. He was afraid of them. He had never seen such extraordinarily funny short men before. They danced, ate and drank. They had funny clothes with many colours of a rainbow. Each one of them had a walking stick and a hat. Wooden walking sticks were designed by manual skills from Irish Blackthorn and oak. The Blackthorn was indeed a thorny black-stemmed bush with a small sour blue-black fruit of the blackthorn. It was Native to Europe and Asia. Their walking sticks were made from the hard wood of the blackthorn and were called, Shillelaghs (sticks or clubs). The root handle was carved; the thorns on the shank were trimmed and rounded and the bark was left on the shank. The wood was spread with butter over the surface and was placed up a chimney to preserve it by drying, giving the Shillelagh its typical black shiny appearance. Some of the walking sticks were heavy because the ends were filled with molten lead. It was produced by melting lead and then shaped into a mould to increase the weight of the stick. It was known as ’loaded stick’. Each stick was enjoyable because they looked challenging, stimulating and exciting; moreover, each was different from the other in a way that made them special and worthy of note.

RE-APPEARANCE OF LEPRECHAUNS

At twelve midnight, the leprechauns re-appeared. They danced, sang, talked, whistled and laughed. Gimba watched them patiently. The Leprechaun looked small and old man, about 2 feet tall. They dressed like shoemakers with a cocked hats and leather aprons. These particular leprechauns were friendly and hospitable but mystical. From the shoes they wore Gimba concluded that they were shoemakers. Everything on them was gold. They had pointed ears, funny toes and little green coats. Their shoes were shiny and well fabricated.

One of them touched his shoulders. Gimba felt an odd sensation by the touch. He felt that some kind of energy was flowing through his body. This time it was not an evil energy but sensation of good energy. He could see that he was growing bigger and larger. His clothe was torn apart, his muscles enlarged like the hulk and, his skin colour began to change. A leprechaun put on a green hat in form of a crown on Gimba`s head and gave him a golden stick. Gimba felt like a king. He acquired instant magical powers. Suddenly, he saw his parents and Medusa in the walking stick and was happy. The Leprechauns observed that Gimba had now acquired magical powers. The fourteen Leprechauns took turns in chanting with Gimba. They grouped themselves into four. Some chatted about education. Others conversed about wealth and riches. Another group spoke about shoes. The last group discussed about distinctive qualities in the society of human beings. After which each one of the Leprechauns was preparing to make a trip from their respective ends the rainbow to the other. Gimba was very happy and pleased. Never for a moment was he afraid or felt uncomfortable. He was looking forward to a great deal adventure. Time suddenly stood still. Gimba learnt from many sources. There were no difference between them and the butterflies in terms of colour; they were both colourful like the rainbow. Gimba kept everything he learned in his brain. At a distant Gimba saw some figures with funny green hats and curled moustaches. They were fourteen of them, the Leprechauns, dancing on an Island. Each one of them had a walking stick and a hat. They were short people with colourful clothing's and special looking gleaming shoes. All of a sudden the walking sticks began to shine brightly with golden glow. The fourteen leprechauns were; Sana, Sane, Sani, Sema, Seme, Semi, Sonar, Bama, Bami, Bana, Beni, Bini, Bine and Bona. The Island became identical and a rainbow appeared with fourteen observable colours. The chief of the leprechauns suddenly puts a green hat in form of a crown on Gimba`s head and gave him a golden stick. Gimba felt like a king. He acquired instant magical powers. The fourteen Leprechauns took turns in chanting with Gimba. They divide themselves into four groups. Some talked to Gimba about education. Others talked about wealth and riches. Another group talked about shoes and the last group talked about distinctive qualities of human beings. Each one of the Leprechauns prepared to make a trip from one end of each colour of the rainbow to the other. Gimba was very happy and pleased. Never for a moment was he afraid or felt uncomfortable. He looked forward to a great deal adventure. Gimba took a trip with each Leprechaun to the end of their respective coloured rainbows and collected gold hidden in pots. Gimba became conscious that it was only through leprechauns and rainbows with fourteen colours that gold was found at the end of a rainbow.

GIMBA FLYING WITH SANA

Sana was the oldest of all the fourteen brothers; his kingdom was the outer arc of the rainbow, the red zone. Bona was the youngest; his kingdom was green at the inner arc, the green zone. They arranged that Sana was the first to fly Gimba to his red rainbow city. Gimba was so much excited that he forgot to eat his breakfast. He told Gimba to grab hold of the distal end of the magical wooden stick and within some few seconds, they vanished into the red colour zone of the rainbow. The red component of the rainbow followed a large curve archway with some few lesser curves. It was warm but not hot. The rainbow was very pleasing and impressive to look at, but had no voice. It could not be touched; smelt nor tasted. Gimba was surprised. The rainbow was a route along which messengers like the leprechauns moved between Earth and Heaven. It was as if the rainbow was a slit in the sky sealed by Goddess using various colours of stones; bows made by supernatural beings consisting of lightning, thunder and rain. The leprechauns had common understanding of the rainbow.

Gimba observed many particular shades of the unusual rainbow colours than the traditional rainbow's colours. The colours were not free from overlapping bows of individually pure spectral colours. The fourteen colours that Gimba saw were mixtures. Any one colour of the bow had longer wavelength colour mixed in. There were colour outcomes that were very closely linked. At the end of the rainbow Sana had a hiding place for his pots of gold. Without the Leprechauns it was impossible to reach the rainbow because; to the ordinary human being the rainbow was an optical effect, which depended on the location of the spectator. Many rainbows could occur simultaneously on the same spot. However, people who travelled to the end of the rainbow could see nothing because it moved to a point that was more distant in place and time. As Sana and Gimba ascended to the heavens they followed the component of the rainbow from one end to the other. At the beginning of the rainbow the zone was white until they reached the middle. There were red houses, plants, mountains and rivers. Everything was red including the residents.

LEPRECHAUNS

The Leprechauns lived normal lives in much the same way as Gimba. Sana invited Gimba into his house. He had two children. They were at school. Gimba visited them at schools. The children were happy. They showed pleasure, contentment and joy. Happiness was an important part of their feelings because it gave those reasons and incentives to overcome their sorrows when they were ignored or lost their self-confidence. Nobody kept their feelings inside them because they felt it was safe to make their thoughts and feelings known to other people. They knew that sadness would end in persistent feelings of hopelessness, dejection, poor concentration, lack of energy, inability to sleep, gentle sadness, and, sometimes, suicidal tendencies. They talked freely about their problems. It helped them to find healing and relief. They also expressed themselves through dancing if they felt like it. The citizens were shoemakers. It explained why their shoes were skilfully fabricated. Leprechauns were little in size about 2 feet tall and old in looks. They lived up to 2000 years and in fact they were immortal. They had the ability to vanish within a twinkle of and eye if one did not keep his eye on them but they were so fast and moved with the alacrity of light that it was impossible to keep track of them. They travelled along certain paths with lots of colour. Their most preferred route of travel was the rainbow. They lived in round shaped magical houses with little windows and lots of laces at their doors which acted as a magical curtain to the outer world. They often preferred hilly grassy places where rainfall was plentiful and trees short and green. They usually sat on rocks arranged in a semi-circular form to design and made their shoes. They never left their eye off the pots of gold in their possession. Their walking sticks had magical powers which guided their pots of gold at nights. They lived near small rivers with sediments and lots of minerals. They enjoyed merry making, eating, drinking beer, dancing, running around, and singing but conservative in their undertakings. They were diplomatic and did not often apply their magic powers. They were tricky and self-conscious according to our understanding. They were nice, not aloof, considerate and polite but people failed to welcome them because they think otherwise. The general ideal about them was that they were grumpy old chaps, unfriendly and uncouth, impolite and foulmouthed. Thus, they often felt like they were in the jungle and subjected to jungle law; in a jungle a rabbit did not received the same treatment as a cobra and a lion would not even wait to hear what one had to say. Leprechauns did not belief that communiqué was the same as amiability. Leprechauns tailored their language to be effective and personal. Although, it was not well-liked, it was a chance for conciliation. They were able to bring about good fortune or wretchedness. Leprechauns liked gold, riddles, puzzles, practical jokes and rainbows and latitudes to move in. They disliked a one-size-fits-all approach to people because it always ended up in impartiality, unfairness and emotional involvement. They preferred having their own method they felt most comfortable with in dealing with people because, the dilemma came when they failed to detect how it limited their effectiveness in solving problems. Other people viewed kindness as weakness thus; solving a problem was very tiring. The Leprechauns dropped a smile, lowered their tones of voices and advised bad-tempered people the consequences of their bad temper but usually, people did not act in response to hush-hush styles. Gimba learnt much about communiqué and felt that no one was young or old to listen to negotiation. Any person was able to learn as long as they had the humility to admit that everyone had room for improving. It was due to contempt, self-importance and disregard for others that made it hard for others to learn anything new. After a while Sana and Gimba became red skinned. Gimba did not worry about his red skin because he felt free to mingle amid the citizens without feeling himself different. There was peace.

RED CITY ON THE RAINBOW AND GOLD

Gimba spent one week in the Red City and learnt how to make good quality shoes. The children in Red City were nice to each other and helped each other in every respect. They respected each other. At the end of one week Gimba was taken to the distal end of the rainbow. There was abundance of gold buried deep into the soil. Gold’s physical properties made it one of the most prized natural resources on Earth moreover; it was the most useful element. Gold was a good conductor of heat and electricity. It was heavy but could be hammered into thin sheets, thin wires, filaments and Gold leafs. Although, the melting point of Gold was 1060 degrees Fahrenheit they could afford to melt it. Sana told Gimba that their Gold was found in sediments deposited by flowing water, river sand and gravel containing particles of gold. The fineness of Gold was indicated by a karat system measurement. 24 karat, hundred percent, Gold was very soft, 18 karat; seventy- five percent, Gold was softer than 14 karat Gold. The gold was heavy but Gimba gathered enough Gold to make the world a better place and to alleviate hunger on Earth. He carried what he could. He liked the city but it was time for him to travel back to earth. Sana and Gimba left the Red City of the rainbow. He had gained enormous experiences and good memoirs. They flew back to the earth. Bona, the youngest of the leprechauns flew Gimba to the green cone of the rainbow. Their cities were beautiful and green and the gold Gimba gathered was green. Everything was green in the city but Gimba observed that by mixing the secondary colours he obtained green. By mixing yellow and blue Gimba got Green. The Primary colours were Red (Magenta), Blue (Cyan) and Yellow. Gimba mixed Green, red and blue and got seven colours. Gimba flew back home happily ever after;  he took care of all the poor children in the world. Gimba made a difference.