Among the Sumo in Honduras and Nicaragua, Mother Scorpion is regarded as dwelling at the end of the Milky Way, where she receives the souls of the dead, and from her, represented as a mother with many breasts, at which children take suck, come the souls of the newborn. Whereas the Pawnee and Cherokee say: The souls of the dead are received by a star at the northern end of the Milky Way, and he directs warriors upon the dim and difficult arm, women and those who dies of old age upon the brighter and easier path. The souls then journey southwards. At the end of the celestial pathway, they are received by the Spirit Star, and there they make their home. (p. 243)
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