Mary Lou Batty <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
[snip]
>While I'm briefly out of lurkdom, thought some of you might be
>interested in this exerpt from a book I've just read:
>". . . our galaxy, from the Greek GALA, "mother's milk" -- reflects the
>belief, predating the Olympian deities, that the Milky Way came from the
>breasts of the Great Goddess as Queen of Heaven.  This then became part
>of Hera's mythology:  when milk spurted from her breasts, the Milky Way
>was formed.  The drops that fell to the ground became lilies . . ." (p.
>39).
>From:  Jean Shinoda Boden (1984)  The Goddess in everywoman:  A new
>psychology of women.

I'm a total lurker, but I did want to share the URL of
Tintoretto's The Origin of the Milky Way, which depicts
this in a lovely manner:
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/cjackson/t/p-tintore5.htm

Lovely art...

-J.L. Moquin