The Milky Way Star Lore

The Milky Way is our home galaxy. Our sun is one of an estimated 100 to 400 billion stars in this galaxy. Before the invention of the telescope, the Milky Way was observed only as a hazy band of light in which no individual stars could be distinguished. This mythical band is the source of many myth around the world. In different cultures, it has been interpreted as a road, a river, a track of birds, a snake and many other things. There are too many Milky Way myths for one page. Click on any of the links below to go to a certain region or a certain culture.

Part 1 Europe, Middle East, Asia	Part 2 North America	Part 3 Southern Hemispere
Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Islamic Golden Age Leiden Arathea Norse Mythology Finnish & Baltic Mythology Hungarian Mythology Irish Mythology Welsh Mythology Pilgrimage Routes Armenian Mythology Hindu Mythology Chinese Mythology Modern Day Technology	Apache Cherokee Chumash Lakota Navajo Ojibwe Pawnee Shoshone	Africa Khoe-Sān !Kung Australia Dark Constellations of Australian Aboriginal Wardaman Aboriginal Western Kimberley Aboriginal South America Dark Constellations of the Inca Kalapalo Mocovi Pacific Hawaii Tuamotu Rarotonga Tahiti Māori

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