MilkyWay

The Milky Way:

The Milky Way galaxy is best known as the wide band of stars that cuts across our night-sky at a 23.5° angle from our own solar system's ecliptic. As such, the Milky Way occurs in ancient mythology in the form of the semen of Ptah in Egypt, the "sea of milk" eternally being churned into butter in India, and the River Styx in Greece. In S. America, the Milky Way was the "Way of the Dead," and venerated in the Aztec capitol of Tenotitchlan. The juncture point between the solar system's ecliptic and the hub of the Milky Way was, in the Popul Vuh, the "World Tree" that grew at the intersection of the realms of the living and the dead. The "Tree of Life" figures prominently in Judeao-Christian and Moslem religion as well, and is cognate with the "middle pillar" of QBLH and Hindu Yoga.

the Hub of the Milky Way galaxy

It is thought that it was not first postulated until by scientists as recently as the 19th and 20th centuries AD that the concept of the Milky Way galactic hub is the edge-on view of a massive spiral galaxy, containing billions of stars similar to our own. Thus, the six arms of our galaxy were not discovered until extremely powerful telescopes manages to pierce the distances of our galactic hub and ascertain the shape of our local universe and our place in it. The result is that now we know our Milky Way is actually only one of billions of billions of similar galaxies in the cosmos.