WarpmanAstro
WarpmanAstro t1_jeb8e5c wrote
Reply to comment by xopranaut in TIL the milky way was named as such because of Hera's breaskmilk...An infant Hercules tried to nurse from her, and she threw him off. Allowing some milk to splash and creating the galaxy and all its stars... by Themakia
One of my favorite explanations for the mysterious "races of man who came before us" and figures like the Niphilim are literally just our ancestors remembering Neanderthals existing and then suddenly "vanishing".
WarpmanAstro t1_jeba4v7 wrote
Reply to comment by BrokenNorthern in TIL the milky way was named as such because of Hera's breaskmilk...An infant Hercules tried to nurse from her, and she threw him off. Allowing some milk to splash and creating the galaxy and all its stars... by Themakia
Literally so she'd stop being mad. His birth name is actually Alcides. IIRC, his parents renamed him after they took him to a seer and discovered why he was strong enough to choke out two pythons as a baby and by whom those pythons had been sent.