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398 stirred up by a turtle swimming along the bottom of the sky.

The North American Indians regarded the Galaxy as the pathway of the ghosts to the land of the hereafter, the Pawnees believing that it was the path taken by spirits as they pass along, driven by the wind which starts at the north to the star in the south at the end of the way. The Iroquois call it "the Road of Souls."

The Tahitians regard it as a shark-infested creek, and the Polynesians knew it as the "Long Blue Cloud-eating Shark."

It has also been called "Walsingham's Way," "the Road to the Virgin Mary in Heaven," "Asgard's Bridge," and "the Band."