THE MILKY WAY
Some people in the south had a corn mill, in which they
pounded the corn into meal, and several mornings when they came to fill it they
noticed that some of the meal had been stolen during the night. They
examined the ground and found the tracks of a dog, so the next night they
watched, and when the dog came from the north and began to eat the meal out of
the bowl they sprang out and whipped him. He ran off howling to his home
in the north, with the meal dropping from his mouth as he ran, and leaving
behind a white trail where now we see the Milky Way, which the Cherokee call to
this day
Gi'li´-utsûñ´stanûñ´yi, "Where the dog ran."
From
"James Mooney's History, Myths and Sacred Formulas of the
Cherokees"
Published
by Bright Mountain Books, Inc.