Everywhere Is Named After Breast Milk

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[@NameExplain]

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[@DarwinskiYT]

Mwa mwa milky

[@sativablack8245]

HE NEEDS SOME MILK

[@storyspren]

Linnunrata in Finnish. A literal translation would be "bird track", like a track for birds to go along.

[@juanitoice]

The version I know is that Zeus and Athena failed to trick Hera into breastfeeding Heracles as a baby/child but promised to not try to kill him anymore and it was only upon Heracles' death, Hera finally forgave him and as a sign of peace and goodwill breastfed him as an adult, granting him godhood, but that some of the milk eventually spilled out thru the night sky.

[@kensh851]

"breastfed him as an adult" Okay

[@juanitoice]

@@kensh851 bruh, it's Greek mythology, it tends to get kinky one way or another 🤣🤣🤣

[@zeroworldcraft]

@Benjamin Acosta You have to wash these stories through alchemy symbols, to arrive at a real chemistry. Like, Issac Newton discovering the formula for "The Net" (purple iron) in Virgil's story of Mars & Venus' love affair.

[@wiimannoob]

In Swedish it is called "Vintergatan" = Winter Street. Supposedly the old norse believed they could predict the course of winter by studying the stars of the galaxy's center.

[@Vsmovies100]

I've always wonder where that came from.

[@kaengurus.sind.genossen]

In German, we say "Milchstraße" (Street/road of milk)

[@WolfyLuna]

In Dutch as well "Melkweg"

[@stargatis]

Breast milk is really amazing though! It works with your baby’s saliva to make antibodies specifically for that baby💙 milk fed babies are taller and do better in school so choose breast milk if you can but never judge a mom for using formula 💙every baby has different needs💜💜💜9:29 and it does fly high

[@paisan8766]

When our breastfeeding counselor told us this 2 years back, it was my favorite fact ever. Probably still is

[@hamsterama]

Also, not every woman can breast feed. I have a family member who had to use formula, because her body wasn't producing milk. So yes, use breast milk if you can. But you're right, don't judge a mom if she uses formula. She might be using formula because she doesn't have a choice.

[@sdspivey]

It wasn't called a circle because its a spiral, the ancients didn't know that. It was called a circle because it circles the earth. The "γαλα" refers to milk, breast or udder.

[@matheuspaesdesouza]

In Brazil and Portugal, Leite (which means Milk) can also be a surname. And we also call our galaxy the Milky Way.

[@Furienna]

In Swedish, both the band in the sky and the galaxy are called Vintergatan (Winter Street).

[@DrWhoFanJ]

For a (mostly) accurate pronunciation of “Galaxia Kyklos”, watch the opening few minutes of Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday: Part One (1982).

[@alexiswelsh5821]

I heard a version where Athena pretended that her newest brother was just a random abandoned baby and asked Hera, her step-mom/aunt to raise the boy because she didn’t know anything about raising kids. Hera accepted and breastfeed him. However Heracles still bit her breast hard.

[@jaschabull2365]

Sounds very Moses-y.

[@pagansbasin6657]

If ‘hear me out’ was a video

[@MrJakobfannar]

In Icelandic it is "Vetrarbrautin" which translates to "Winter Track" or "Winter Way"

[@darreljones8645]

Good news: this video wasn't demonitized. Bad news: I had to sit through five seconds of a commercial for vaginal cream, and I'm not even female. :(

[@Fav-ie]

aw. This was funny as hell

[@sion8]

I just got local commercials. I love when channels get weird commercials! I watch a channel called “China Uncensored”, they often get demonetized, one time I remember I sat through an Israeli anti-abortion commercial! I didn't even have a VPN on nor do I live any where near Europe much less the Middle East, I couldn't tell you why that happened, it was crazy!

[@YunxiaoChu]

Cool

[@nromk]

In Spanish it's called la via láctea which means the same thing as the Milky Way

[@elihyland4781]

I luv that his name means “the glory of my stepmom”

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

In Ukrainian it's Чумацький шлях meaning "Merchant's way", close to the Arabic name, but чумак's were transporting mostly salt from Crimea.

[@WolfyLuna]

5:39 "Heteropaternal superfecundation", to me that sounded like something straight from the Mary Poppins song :)

[@JayTemple]

Somewhat related: I asked how we can be eating chicken breasts, since birds don't have breasts. They don't, of course, but they still have a bone analogous to the human breastbone, so we use the same name, and the meat we're eating is what's close to that bone.

[@HalfEye79]

In the germanic mythology, the name of the Milky Way is "Iringsweg" or "Iringsstraße" (both "way of Iring"). Iring is another name of the sky-, light- and guardian-god Heimdall.

[@erictaylor5462]

I live near (but not in) a place called Wanker's Corner.

[@igitha..._]

The Milky Way gets its name from a Greek myth about the goddess Hera who sprayed milk across the sky. In other parts of the world, our galaxy goes by other names. In China it's called the “Silver River,” and in the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, it's called the “Backbone of Night.” According to Aboriginal legend, emus were creator spirits that used to fly and look over the land. To spot the emu, look south to the Southern Cross; the dark cloud between the stars is the head, while the neck, body and legs are formed from dust lanes stretching across the Milky Way.

[@nugzarmikeladze]

in Georgian milky way is called ირმის ნახტომი it means Deer's leap.

[@Liggliluff]

This video only considers the English name. But the galaxy have many different names, so with this logic, we all live in many different strangely named places at once.

[@starleaf-luna]

last time i was this early i was thinking of an original comment to post

[@starleaf-luna]

but haha, i mean who does THAT amirite

[@Onibushou]

Japanese uses 天の川 (ama no gawa), heavenly river

[@sion8]

*+*

[@WolfyLuna]

That does sound more pleasant than 乳の道

[@SpaceWaterfall1]

In german we call the Milky Way Milchstraße which can mean Milky Way, but it would be more accurate to translate it as Milkstreet. And Galaxy is just Galaxie and probably has the same name origin as english.

[@djazz0]

Its known as Vintergatan in Swedish (Winter Street)

[@likebot.]

You can't say squat without being demonitised or stricken these days.

[@TheFlyfly]

Galaxies kyklos become even shorter in swedish: "galax"

[@Goomatora]

Thank you patrons! *Indecipherable wall of text*

[@Nykona-Sharrowkyn]

The Milky Way galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy, this has been known for more than 10 years now

[@New_Wave_Nancy]

I had never heard this story before. So interesting!

[@thelibyanplzcomeback]

I thought it was named that because it looks like cataracts ("milky" vision).

[@zeroworldcraft]

Do boat words! Then castle words (Tolkien). Then, desert words (Dune).

[@edgypotato7588]

Great video! But why does voice sound go up and down.

[@JustAGamerPerson]

If everything is named after what I say produced by breasts, then I’m perfectly happy with my existence.

[@elinakangas571]

What happened to the normal twin who was from her actual husband?

[@smingledingle_0]

Do a video about the English and American Accents.

[@tijanamilenkovic3425]

I knew that Hercules is Disney's Dragon Ball rip off, heck in Dragon Ball, there is Ginyu Forces are named after dairy as ginyu is Japanese for dairy, so maybe it was the reference to the legend of Heracles, where galaxies where created when Hera shoot milk from her boobs 🐮🐄🧀🍦🍼🥛 Hercules is Goku Megara is Chichi and Bulma Philoctetes is Master Roshi, Yajirobe, Korin and Oolong Pegasus is Puar Zeus is Bardock Hera is Gine Hermes is Jaco Hades is Frieza Pain and Panic are Pilaf and Shuu Cyclops is Majin Buu

[@cursedalien]

Is it actually possible for a baby to suckle from a sleeping person?

[@sion8]

Yes, the movement of milk is an involuntary reaction. Some women can't even hear a baby crying, because (if they're breastfeeding) they'll start to release milk!

[@jaschabull2365]

@@sion8 *flashbacks to that one Office episode with Kevin and Pam*

[@combatking0]

The Japanese word for milk is 牛乳 or Gyūnyū The Japanese word for galaxy is 銀河 or Ginga I know the symbols look very different, but there may be some shared root between the pronunciation.

[@sion8]

Maybe? But, what do the individual characters mean?

[@tijanamilenkovic3425]

So now I know tha Ginyu Forces from Dragon Ball are all named after dairy 🐮🐄🧀🍦🍼🥛

[@loafhouse]

god must have thought of his wife, so he named the galaxy the milky way

[@modmaker7617]

God is a human-made idea and doesn't exist. The Milky Way Galaxy was named by humans. Everything is named by humanity.

[@loafhouse]

@@modmaker7617 r/woooosh

[@dnm3732]

God exists but doesn't have have a wife because he is an all powerful and being that exists outside of the laws of physics including time and space.

[@modmaker7617]

@Marshy If the Greco-Roman Gods, Nordic Gods etc don't exist why would the Abrahamic God (of Judaish, Christianity and Islam) exist? Just favouritism right there. Also I believe deities and other supernatural beings where created in the minds of humans because in primitive times we didn't understand the world like we do now. I believe God is a fictional being and that the Bible and Quran are a mix of history and fiction that had been mistranslated over the years that the original meaning was lost.

[@igitha..._]

@@modmaker7617 Lol keep searching

[@fcsuper]

In the context of the topic, "breast milk" is kind of a tautology. It's just milk. Milk. No need to say "breast".

[@JayTemple]

The presumption is that it's (directly) from a human breast, rather than a pail that was placed below some other mammal's udder.

[@yeshellowhat6719]

Please don't give your microphone any more baths

[@benjaminprietop]

Homelander likes this

[@sion8]

😬

[@Mystninja]

What about jiz

[@prakharkanchan488]

It is called Akash Ganga in Hindi

[@sion8]

What does that mean in English?

[@prakharkanchan488]

@@sion8 River Ganges of the Sky

[@sion8]

@@prakharkanchan488 Oh, I see cool.

[@cfgp]

religion and mythology is so weird who came up with 'see that white-ish part of the sky that looks like stars? it came from a boob'

[@sion8]

The ancestors of Greeks, also it's a brownish grey.

[@smingledingle_0]

I live in a neutral sounding place. Flowood, or Brandon which ever one you want to call it.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic6900]

What?

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic6900]

Ohh... now i get it.

[@AtarahDerek]

Time is weird. We literally judge the motion of the entire universe according to two points on the earth's surface compared to the earth's rotation on its axis. And you thought we'd accepted that our planet is not the center of the universe. You were wrong.

[@justinbeath5169]

What else should we use? Everything moves at a different speed so what do you suggest we pick for measuring time in the universe? Why shouldn't we use the systems of time that we understand and live through every day for the past few hundred thousand years? We are an earth based species, there is nothing wrong or to be ashamed of in using our most easily recognizable points of reference to understand the universe rather than overcomplicating things with proprietary systems of measurement

[@AtarahDerek]

@@justinbeath5169 But if we don't overcomplicate it, we'll never understand what happens in the center of our own galaxy, let alone on the other side of the universe. I'm just saying that there's a reason time is relative. Our time-based measurement of lightyears really doesn't work as well as we think it does. It works on an extremely basic, face value, highly theoretical level only. How big is our galaxy really? We have no idea.

[@justinbeath5169]

@@AtarahDerek we cam can understand things perfectly well with our current measuring systems. If we couldn't scientists wouldn't use them. The lightyear functions as well as any other unit if measurement and we do know that the milky way is roughly 100,000 lightyears across. Propriety systems that aren't related to anything useful on a day to day scale just cause more confusion and the metric system, as well as the imperial system to a lesser degree, is very well optimized for daily life and most scientific research at a planetary scale while being adequate at a universal scale when using larger units like lightyears or parsecs

[@sion8]

What are you referring to by “two points”?

[@AtarahDerek]

@@sion8 Meters were invented by a cartographer to divide the earth into base 10 chunks. Scientists now measure time and velocity in meters per X minutes. A lightyear is how far light can travel in one year. It is a unit that equates to 9.46 trillion km. But we have NO idea what time actually does when light travels that far. Light is one of the fastest things in the universe, and its very motion distorts time as we perceive it. Yet because we have no choice, we assume light and time behave the same way when light reaches the other side of the galaxy as they do on this side. We have reason to believe that assumption is wrong, but at the moment we have nothing to replace it with that we can comprehend and use. So everything we think we know about what's happening in other parts of our galaxy is probably wrong. But we roll with it for now because it's all we've got. In other words, earth is the "center" of the universe because we would otherwise have literally no other means of perceiving the universe. Everything we look at in space, we compare to earth. We have to. We have no other reference point.

[@lewatoaofair2522]

Musical homage: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKbUpZemqr-rrM0 By the way, a scene from this seems to make more sense knowing this myth.

[@NeutralSchweizz]

In Indonesian it's Galaksi BimaSakti

[@sion8]

So, they adopted the Greek term? Does _Bima Sakti_ also mean “Milky Way” or something else?

[@NeutralSchweizz]

@@sion8 it's a same meaning

[@NeutralSchweizz]

@@sion8 it's mean milky way galaxy

[@sion8]

@@NeutralSchweizz Okay. I'm not sure why you repeated yourself.

[@hautejester]

yes

[@k00lkidz4]

BOOBA

[@powerviolentnightmare5026]

Ah yes, Zuuuuus and Herakleeeeees. Definitely the correct pronunciation. English is ridiculous

[@albyrt_]

too long :(

[@emeraldfrmnyc]

Wow early

[@madi2203]

*Chest milk

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

That what a breast is

[@sion8]

@@mikeoxsmal8022 Tell that to the NHS.

[@goldentirent8456]

look up Eric dubay flat earth on KZbin

[@vasoconvict]

no

[@goldentirent8456]

@@vasoconvict your choice

[@DrWhoFanJ]

So we can call him an idiot? Seems like a weird promotion idea, but whatever.

[@goldentirent8456]

@@DrWhoFanJ it's the truth

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@goldentirent8456 What is? You’re not seriously telling me the world is flat, despite decades of collecting evidence to the contrary‽ 🌎🌍🌏 not 🗺