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On the axis of the Milky Way, you can see the figure of a creature with a long neck (llama, emu, nandu).
All of Australia, Huarochiri, Quechua District of Cusco, Quechua of mountainous Bolivia, Aymara, Toba, Mocovi, Vilela, (Tehuelche).
Australia. Australia as a whole [ideas about a giant emu whose silhouette is visible on the Milky Way (primarily in the form of dark spots in the Coal Bags) have been recorded for Kimberly, Western and Central Australia. Victoria, New South Wales, Arnhemland, Queensland, Sydney area; in particular for Burong, Euahlayi, Kamilaroi, Larracia, Ngalia (Great Victoria Desert Language Group), Pitjanjara, Ngitji Ngitji, vardaman]: Fuller 2014:77-79; kamilaroi and euahlayi [emu head (Coal Sack under the Southern Cross) is visible all year round, and the neck (from α and β Centaur to z/Hare and γ Square) and body (Scorpio, Ophiuchus, Sagittarius) - depending on the season; it is best seen in April and May, when the emu's body is directed from the south to SE; this is the time when female emus lay eggs; this is the time when female emus lay eggs; this the time an emu can see her legs in heaven, she runs; in June-July, her legs are not visible, the emu is interpreted as a male sitting on eggs; in August, the time for initiation, the heavenly emu is visible vertically; in August-September the neck is not visible and the body is interpreted as an emu egg]: Fuller et al. 2014:171-178; Fuller 1914:80-86.
The Central Andes. Uarochiri (dep. Lima) [the Yacana constellation is the prototype of all lamas; it moves in the middle of the sky and drinks water from the sea; it is visible in a dark silhouette against the background of the river {i.e. the Milky Way}; it is very large, has two eyes and a long neck; as he approaches, it turns blacker; Yakana drank water from all sources; if a person has a happy fate, it falls on him; he is covered with hair {llama}, falls under its weight, and other people collect it; when morning comes, those who have collected wool see that it is of different colors: blue, white, black, brown; all colors together (de todos colors mexclados); then that the lucky one should buy a couple of llamas and from them he will receive a herd of two or three thousand heads; it is said that Yakana drinks the waters of the sea at midnight when no one sees her; if she did not, the sea would have flooded everything; Yakana is followed by Yutu (partridge), a small black spot]: Salomon, Urioste 1991, ch. 29:372-373 (retelling in Zuidema 1976:60); Quechua from the Cuzco region [on the Milky Way, the spots covering it interstellar gas is described as "dark constellations"; the largest is the llama; her cub is head back under her head; the llama's head near the Southern Cross; Yutu (tinamu's "partridge") close to the Southern Cross; "llama eyes" are α and β Centaur]: Urton 1981:108-110, 170-172; Quechua in mountainous Bolivia (Chuquisaca department, author's field observations) [Mayu ("river") - Milky Way; Lama, Shepherd ( Llamero), Lama Cub, Dog, Woman (Mamalita) are dark constellations (i.e. spots on the Milky Way); Lama's eyes are α and β of the Centaur; it is believed that the llama driver with a sling (Hondero, aka Llamero) is coming ahead; followed by a llama with a cub, followed by a woman; a dog (Perrito) closes the procession {in the Mediterranean, something similar has to do with the Ursa Major, see motif b87; i.e. a group of people and animals walking - Iberian, not Indian motive}]: Ciancia 2018:14-15; Aymara [Holguin writes about something similar to the Aymara]: Zuidema 1976:83.
Chaco. Toba: Lehmann-Nitsche 1935b [nandu's neck begins at the Coal Bag, the body extends to Antares and Ophiuchus; then you can see a fan of tail feathers; 1) nandu's head is a Coal Sack, α and β Centauri is a young hunter and a dog]: 549; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982b, No. 2 [three hunters; Nandu is the Centaur constellation; 2) 4 stars of the Southern Cross are the head (α - beak), and at the same time 2 dogs that clutched to the neck], 7 [boy and girl]: 27-28; mocovi: Guevara; Lozano in Rivera de Bianchi 1973 [dogs chase Nanda first on the ground, then across the sky (the origin of a particular constellation; Coal Bags)]: 704; Wilbert, Simoneau 1988 [people kill the cannibal nanda; some constellations and nearby stars are this nanda and dogs], No. 5 and 10 [The Milky Way], 6 and 9 [Southern Cross], 7 [some constellation], 8, 10 [The Milky Way is Nandu, its head is a big star; dogs have driven him and grabbed him by the neck]: 17-26, 26, 27-30; vilela: Wilbert, Simoneau 1988, No. 5 [(Cipolletti ms); hunters surrounded Nanda the ogre, who was hiding in a hole under a tree; three chicks escaped and became snakes (the origin of snakes); Nanda was killed, his skeleton was the Milky Way], 10 [The Milky Way is the owner of all Nandu; star y heads - two dogs clutching his neck]: 17-19, 26.
(Wed. The Southern Cone. Tehuelche [{links seem to have been given, but I couldn't figure it out}; the Patagonians saw the Milky Way as old hunters chase Nanda; or it's one hunter; the Southern Cross is Nandu's legs, Orion's belt - abandoned bola; Magellanic Clouds are piles of Nandu feathers collected by this hunter or someone else]: Müller 1867:256).