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From: ssatoh@phe.hitachi-sk.co.jp (Shinobu Satoh)
Subject: Re: Milky Way
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 03:00:21 GMT
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In article <bmoore-0208950913480001@bmoore.qualcomm.com> bmoore@qualcomm.com (Holoholona) writes:

 |In article <3vns91$236@nyheter.chalmers.se>, tfams@fy.chalmers.se (Maria
 |Sundin) wrote:
 |
 |> I'm teaching a course in ethnoastronomy this autumn and I would be
 |> grateful for information about what our galaxy, the Milky Way,
 |> is called in different languages and cultures. 
 |
 |
  In the modern Japanese, it is called "Ama no Gawa" meaning 
  River in the Heaven (or Sky). However, my dictionary says 
  the name is based on a chinese legend. 
  
  As I scanned my dictionary, I could not find what it was called in 
  the ancient Japanese.

  SHINO
