from Greek , "The Milky Way", or Putnu ceļš, "The Birds' Path" , "large-star group" , The Birds' Path , a character from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata "Ganges of the Aether (Upper Sky)", from a Hindu myth "Milky Way", translated from Latin "Sea of Milk" (alternative) "Milky Way" "Ganges of the Aether (Upper Sky)”, translated from "the river of heaven” "Milky Way", translated from Greek , "St Anne's way" , "Way of the Gray goose" meshkhuresh shara "The Shepherd's Road" "The Milky Way" (Bokmål, comes from Danish) "The Winter Way" (Nynorsk, related to Icelandic) Kehkashan "Straw-drawing" (traditional) Rah-e Shiri "Milky Way", translated from Latin "Milky Way", translated from Latin "Milky Way", translated from Latin "The Road of Santiago" "Milky Way", translated from Latin or Drumul Robilor ("The Road of the Slaves") "Milky Way", translated from Latin Maṃdākinī, "the calm or unhurried one (feminine)" in Vedic, personal name of Ākāśagaṃgā (see Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi and Hindi) Aryamṇáḥ Pánthāḥ, "Aryaman's Path" "the Way of Straw" "the path of the children of Uisneach" from Celtic mythology "Godfather's straw", from Serbian folk myth "Godfather's straw", from Serbian folk myth "Milky Way", translated from Latin "The Roman Road", because pilgrims followed it when traveling to Rome "Milky Way", translated from Latin "Field of Stars", originally from Latin "The Road to Santiago" "Winter Street", from an old myth "The Road of Thieves" Pāl Vaļi "Milky Way", translated from Latin Pāla Puṃta "The way of the white elephant" "Road of Straw" "Chumaks' Road" Kehkashaṉ, "Straw-drawing", derived from Persian. "Silver River", translated from Chinese "Way of Birds", from a myth "Milky Way", translated from the Latin "The Fort of Gwydion" Aboriginal Australian languages The Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia called the Milky Way wodliparri in the Kaurna language, meaning "house river". The Gomeroi people between New South Wales and Queensland called the Milky Way Dhinawan, the giant Emu in the Sky that it stretches across the night sky. Common names Birds' Path The name "Birds' Path" is used in several Uralic and Turkic languages and in the Baltic languages. Northern peoples observed that migratory birds follow the course of the galaxy while migrating at the Northern Hemisphere. The name "Birds' Path" (in Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Bashkir and Kazakh) has some variations in other languages, e.g. "Way of the grey (wild) goose" in Chuvash, Mari and Tatar and "Way of the Crane" in Erzya