i59B1. The Milky Way is a road to a distant city.
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The Milky Way is a road to a distant city, usually with religious significance (Rome, Jerusalem, etc.).
Basques, Italians, Corsicans, French (including Switzerland), Germans (apparently everywhere; road to Rome; Jerusalem), Slovenes, Romanians, Hungarians, Russians (Vladimir, Kaluga, Kursk, Tula, Penza and/or Kuibyshev and/or Ulyanovsk, Perm), Ukrainians (Kholm, Kherson, etc.), Belarusians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ossetians, Terek Cossacks, Nogais, Kumyks, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Kurds, Kazakhs (Mangyshlak).
Southern Europe. Basques [Erromako bidea - "Trail to Rome"]: Knörr 2001:413; Italians: Rotzler 1915 ["Road to Rome", "Road to Rome", "Roman Road", etc.]: 814; Volpati 1933b: 24-26 ( Lombardy, Italian Switzerland, Friuli, Veneto, Anguillara Veneta, Ferrara, Faenza, Mantova, Ravenna, Bologna, Abruzzo) [Road to Rome (or Roman Road) - everywhere and most often; Road from Naples to Rome; Road to Vienna], 27 [Road to Jerusalem (Lombardy, Friuli)]; Corsicans [name "Road to Rome" recorded twice]: Rotzler 1915:814.
Western Europe. French: Rotzler 1915 [Road to Rome in three separate areas: the far north, west and east]: 813; Volpati 1933b [Road to Rome (cantons of Vaud and Valais, Switzerland)]: 26; Germans: Belova 2004c ["The milk road is the road to Jerusalem"]: 264; Allen 1899 (Switzerland) [Weg uf Rom]: 180; Krappe 1938 (northern Germany) ["road to Nuremberg"]: 155; Saint 1913 [Road to Jerusalem]: 162; Germans (Swabia) [Sky Carriage (4 wheels, 2 horses and coachman) goes to Jerusalem all night]: Meier 1852b, No. 260:235; Rotzler 1915:813-814 [the name of the Milky Way "Road to Rome" was popular in the past in areas where it is now (mainly) replaced by the name "St. Jacob"; but "Road to Rome" is still common], 825 (Westphalia) [Road to Aachen; Frankfurt; Cologne]; British (Suffolk) [London Road]: Rotzler 1915:825.
The Balkans. Slovenes: Matičetov 1973 [Roman Road]: 59; Valjavec 1867 [Rimska cesta; you have to be equal on the Roman road to come to Rome]: 221; Romanians [if anyone wants to get to Rome, he only has to follow the Milky Way]: Rotzler 1915:814; Hungarians [Road to Rome (along with Fairy Road and God's Way)]: Gyarmati 1993:227; (cf. Greeks [Road to Jordan]: Holy 1913:162).
Central Europe. Russians: Avilin 2015 (Bryansk) [Road to Jerusalem]: 61; Belova 2004c ["Road (from Kyiv) to Old Jerusalem" (Kaluzhskaya)]: 264; Bondaletov 1983 (Penza, Kubyshevskaya, Ulyanovskaya - all or one of these regions) [Road to Jerusalem]: 204; Dobrovolskaya 2010 (Vladimirskaya) [cosmonym is rare; "Road to Kiev, to the Lavra"; "Road to Murom, where holy relics and monasteries are"; Road from Murom to Kiev"; "the road from Moscow to Jerusalem", connecting many holy places]: 149; Ruth 1974 (Kursk) [Road to Jerusalem]: 54; 1976 [Road to Jerusalem (Kursk), Way to Jerusalem (Perm)]: 48; Svyatsky 1913 [ Tulskaya, Orlovskaya - "The Way to Jerusalem"; Kaluzhskaya - "The Way from Kiev to Jerusalem]: 162-163; Kolchin 1899, No. 4 (Tula, Chernsky U., Polzikovo) [The Milky Way shows the way to Kiev and Jerusalem. This same path also showed the way for Moses when he led Jews from Egypt to the promised land. The Milky Way itself serves as a road to heaven for dead righteous souls. Its bright stripe is the traces of righteous souls, covered with light and clouds. Souls go this way to God on the fortieth day after their death. They also explain the brilliance of the Milky Way by the fact that the sun passes through it every day and leaves a white road behind it. It is also said that in the old days a pagan goddess walked across the sky and spilled milk, which is why this path is called milky. An old man said that this path is made of shaped boards (parquet) to make it easier for the righteous to go to heaven. Every Matins of Holy Resurrection, when the righteous rise from their coffins, the Milky Way descends to earth and opens the way for them to the kingdom of God]: 10; Ukrainians: Yermolov 1905b (Kherson) [Shlyakh to Jerusalem; its branching - go to holy caves]: 309; Ivanov 1898 (Belokurakino settlement of Starobelsky near. (Kharkiv governorate) [The least route is the road from Kiev to Yurusalym, along which St. Ilya carries his thunder. Yurusalym - the navel of the earth]: 461; Kovalev 2002 (Russian-Ukrainian borderland) [Road to Jerusalem]: 50; Manzhura 1890 (Aleksandrovsky and Novomoskovsky U. Yekaterinoslav Gubernia) [The road (the Milky Way) leads to Jerusalem and Crimea: as they ran from gentlemen, they walked along it]: 148 (these data mean Saint 1913 [Road to Jerusalem and Crimea: they fled along it from lords]: 167); Savchenko 1906 (p. Solovyevka, Radomyslsky y. (Kiev governorate) [The Milky Way - Road to Heavenly Jerusalem]: 105; Chubinsky 1872 (Podolia, Kholmskaya Rus) [The road from Moscow to Jerusalem, who goes based on the Milky Way, will go to Moscow and then to Jerusalem; the road to Jerusalem is the Danube River, across it there are linen bridges 5 versts long, which respond if anyone wants to cross; "Write to the Danube, don't think home" (Ushitsky u.); Road to Jerusalem ( Kholm Rus); The road to Jerusalem - it ends in Jerusalem (Podolsk Gubernia); The Road of the Mother of God to Jerusalem (Vinnytsia district)]: 15; Yastrebov 1894 (Kherson) [way to Yerusalim; branch: way to the holy caves]: 6; Belarusians: Abilin 2015 [Kiev path, Road to Jerusalem]: 61, map 18; Poles: Gładyszowa 1960 [Road to Czestochowa, Rome, Krakow, Warsaw, etc.]: 83; Avilin 2015, map 19 [all historic Polish lands]; Ruth 1987 [Road to Rome (Czestochowa; Jerusalem)]: 37; Czechs: Grohmann 2010 (Moravia) [The Milky Way - "the trail to Rome"]: 47; Rotzler 1915 [" Road to Rome"]: 814; Slovaks [Zesta V'rim]: Allen 1899:480
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Ossetians [The road to Jerusalem divides the whole world into two halves]: Holy 1913:162; Terek Cossacks (v. Ardon) [The Milky Way divides the whole world into two halves and shows the way to Jerusalem]: Gusev 1893:320; Nogais: Bulatova 1999 [Mecke yol, Kaaba yol - road to Mecca, road to Kaaba; Aji yol - Hajiev road]: 106; Kapaev 2012 [Milky Way - Aji yol (aji - Hajj, yol - path), i.e. pilgrimage road leading to Mecca]: 10; Kumyks: Bulatova 1999 [Kaaba el - Road to Kaaba]: 106; Potanin 1883 ("Dagestan Tatars") [Shämy-yely or Myakyanun-yoly - "Road to Mecca" (quoted in Holy 1913:162)]: 740; Azerbaijanis [The Milky Way stretching from north to south, shows the way to Mecca]: Yermolov 1905b: 309 (quoted in Holy 1913:162); Turks ["Road to Kaaba", "Road to Mecca" (along with "The Road of Pilgrims", "Road to Hejaz")]: Gyarmati 1993: 227; Kurds (Kurdistan County - Lachin Corridor) [The Milky Way is the way to Mecca, its branch branch is the way to Medina]: Chursin 1925b: 15.
Turkestan. Kazakhs (Mangyshlak) ["The Milky Way is the Kyrgyz road for birds to fly to Mecca"]: Karutz 1911:135.