Julia Thompson wrote:
> And the "Milky" part of it comes from a myth that it's
> the milk spilling out of a goddess's breast into the sky.
Yup. I already knew about that one, so it wasn't surprising
enough to me to post about. ;-)
It's odd that I never really thought about why it's a "Way"
until today. Wow, there was some nice alliteration and
rhyming in the last half of that sentence... :-)
I also like the other name for the Milky Way that I learned
from Greg Benford, "Great Sky River". That one makes a lot
of sense. Kudos to the American Indians for coming up with
it. :-)
There's also the very cool-sounding African "Backbone of
Night", that I learned from Cosmos.
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