Milky Way

The Silver River Path (Art by Nick Risinger)

### Aliases

Milky Way Galaxy, Via Láctea, Great Rift, Mortal Heaven, Great Sky River, Birds' Path, Road to Santiago, Ganges of the Sky, Silver River, River of Heaven, Straw Way, Walsingham Way, Winter Street, Tiamat's Tail

## Details

### Located within

Local Group

The **Milky Way** is a spiral galaxy created by God that exists together with other galaxies in a cluster of galaxies called the "Local Group".

## Overview

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and is almost as old as the Universe itself. Inside it, there are several other celestial bodies, such as the Sun, Earth and Moon, among other billions of stars and planets. This galaxy is currently on the fusion route with another slightly larger and younger spiral galaxy called Andromeda.

## Description

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, formed by countless clouds of gas and cosmic dust that form its arms that are even visible to the naked eye of planet Earth. The Milky Way is also formed by trillions of stars that illuminate the entire firmament during the nights, numerous bright spots cover the night sky, a small demonstration of the glory of the Creator. At the center of the Milky Way lives a cosmic monster, a lord of nothingness, an ultra massive singularity called the Sagittarius A\*, a black hole 4.3 million times more massive than the Sun. Around the Milky Way, there are dwarf galaxies (also called satellite galaxies) that orbit the Galaxy, the most famous being the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Although the Milky Way is believed to be between 100,000-200,000 light years in diameter, it is revealed by Gabriel that, in reality, the Milky Way is much larger than humans think, being approximately 50,000,000 light years across diameter, being almost 10 times larger than the elliptical galaxy, IC 1101. The Angels use their abilities to hide a large part of the Milky Way to prevent humans from gaining knowledge of information that is beyond their own understanding. For example, in some corners of the galaxy there are dimensional portals that are guarded by Cherubims who give access to Heaven, to Hell, and even the Outerverse, and that would be a problem if humans found out. This is also one of the reasons why even today beings have not come into contact with the Aliens, Archons or the Old Ones, although they are wandering the galaxy at will.

Despite most humans have information hidden by angels, some humans have knowledge about the true size of the galaxy and the entities that roam it, such as Carl Black, some hunters, and exorcists. If the Sagitarios A\* is actually believed to be an avatar or a manifestation of the entity of chaos, Ycnágnnisssz.

## History

After God said "Let there be Light" and the universe began to expand, over time as the universe cooled, this allowed the stars to begin to be born. However, it is believed that before that, there were some hypothetical stars called "Quasi Star", which gave rise to super and hyper massive holes, such as the Sagittarius A\* which is in the center of the Milky Way.

Millions of years after the Big Bang, matter began to clump together due to gravity and small galaxies started to be born which, over time, began to fuse with each other, giving rise to the large galaxies as we know it today, such as Milky Way itself. It was during this period that God "separated the light from the darkness", transforming the universe into an ocean of blackness dotted with spots, trace, spirals and colored spheres, all rotating in complete harmony.

## Locations

* Solar System - Star system formed by the sun and 8 planets
	+ Sun - Yellow dwarf star in the center of the solar system
	+ Earth - God's last perfect work and the home of human beings
	+ Venus - Brightest planet in the night sky
	+ Yuggoth - Mysterious planet located on the edge of the solar system
	+ Nibiru - Place where the Anunnaki live
	+ Moon - Planet Earth's natural satellite
	+ Theia - Protoplanet that supposedly collided with Earth in the past

## Myths and Legends

There are many myths and legends about the origin of the Milky Way, the crowd of stars that makes a distinctive bright streak across the night sky.

### Greek and Roman

The Greek name for the Milky Way (Γαλαξίας *Galaxias*) is derived from the Greek word for milk (γάλα, *gala*). One legend explains how the Milky Way was created by Heracles when he was a baby. His father, Zeus, was fond of his son, who was born of the mortal woman Alcmene. He decided to let the infant Heracles suckle on his divine wife Hera's milk when she was asleep, an act which would endow the baby with godlike qualities. When Hera woke and realized that she was breastfeeding an unknown infant, she pushed him away and the spurting milk became the Milky Way.

Another version of the myth is that Heracles was abandoned in the woods by his mortal parents, Amphitryon and Alcmene. Heracles, son of Zeus and Alcmene, was naturally favored by his father, who sent Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom, to retrieve him. Athena, not being so motherly, decided to take him to Hera to suckle. Hera agreed to suckle Heracles. As Heracles drinks the milk, he bites down, and Hera pushes him away in pain. The milk that squirts out forms the Milky Way.

A story told by the Roman Hyginus in the *Poeticon astronomicon* (ultimately based on Greek myth) says that the milk came from the goddess Rhea, the wife of Cronus. Cronus swallowed his children to ensure his position as head of the Pantheon and sky god, and so Rhea conceived a plan to save her newborn son Zeus: She wrapped a stone in infant's clothes and gave it to Cronus to swallow. Cronus asked her to nurse the child once more before he swallowed it, and the milk that spurted when she pressed her nipple against the rock eventually became the Milky Way.

### Hindu

In the Hindu collection of stories called Bhagavata Purana, all the visible stars and planets moving through space are likened to a dolphin that swims through the water, and the heavens are called *śiśumãra cakra*, the dolphin disc. The Milky Way forms the abdomen of the dolphin and is called *Akasaganga* which means "The Ganges River of the Sky".

According to Hindu mythology, Vishnu lies meditating on Shesha with his consort Lakshmi, in the Kshira Sagara (Sea of Milk).