What is the relationship of milk with the Milky Way Galaxy?
But the question is why the name of our galaxy is so weird? Why is the name of the galaxy is in the name of milk?
The name of the galaxy is not usually like this. As many new galaxies, stars and planets are discovered, they are scientifically named. However, there are some galaxies or stellar objects that even ancient humans could distinguish. The galaxy is a combination of many stars, they may not have known it. But it was clear that these were different from other ordinary stars in the sky. They gave different names to these special objects living in the sky.
They considered these objects in the sky as gods and goddesses and named them accordingly.
The planet we know as Venus was the goddess of love and beauty. There is a galaxy called Andromeda, named after a goddess in Greek mythology. Scientifically the name of the Andromeda Galaxy is M31. The name Milky Way also comes from mythology.
In Greek mythology, Zeus and his wife Hera are the kings of the gods. Unbeknownst to Hera, Devaraja Zeus had an affair with a mortal woman. A boy was born in the womb of that woman. This child's name is Hercules. According to mythology, the gods of the heavens are immortal, and "mortals" are mortal. The father is immortal and god, while the mother is a mortal and an ordinary human. In this dichotomy, Hercules is neither immortal, nor mortal, nor man, nor god. He's in the middle of all.
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But there is a way to be a complete god and immortal. If Hercules is given the motherhood of Hera, the
goddess of the heavens, and is breastfed, he will be immortal. At the same time get the respect of the gods. For that, the god Zeus brought his child to heaven. But the goddess Hera, the wife of Zeus, bent down. By no means did she want to convey that she recommended for the mother to be inactive.
Seeing no way out, Zeus thought of another way. When Hera is asleep, she will take the opportunity to feed Hercules. When she went to breastfeed in her sleep, Hera woke up at one point and quickly removed her breasts from the baby Hercules. At the moment of weaning due to haste, some milk dripped from the breast and spread all over the sky.
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If a small hole is made in the milk in a large container, the milk will continue to flow in a long stream through the hole. The tiny milk particles will scatter and form a white-grey pattern. This is exactly what happened to the milk produced by the goddess Hera. White-grey milk churns. This method or road made from milk was called the ‘milk method’ or ‘milkway’ by the people of that time. But the whole story is mythical. It has no real basis (obviously!).
The name Milky Way comes from the Roman word. The Romans named this galaxy "Vía Láctea." This means the road of milk. However, the Romans were not the first to give such names. The Romans got the word from the Greek word "galaxías kýklos." This means the Milky circle.
One name for the Milky Way galaxy in each area. Because it can be seen from all over the world. So it is normal for people in different areas to have different names. In India, the name of the galaxy is 'Akashganga'. To the skywatchers of ancient India, it looked like a river. According to their belief, the Ganges exists in the mortal world and in the sky at the same time. The ‘Akash Ganga’ of the sky and the ‘Ganga’ of the land flow in the same stream. That is why the river Ganges is revered in traditional religions.
The part that was named after the Milky Way is not the Milky Way at all, but only a small part of it. The Milky Way galaxy is spiral. Its diameter is about one hundred thousand light-years. If one travels three hundred thousand kilometers per second 24 hours a day without any break, it will take one hundred years to get from one end of the Milky Way to the other. If people at the time knew about the original spiral shape and extent of this galaxy, it would probably never have been called the Milky Way.
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