When Aborigines in Australia die, they are taken by a mystical canoe, Larrpan, to the spirit land in the sky. You can see their campfires burning along the edge of the great river of the Milky Way. The canoe is sent back to earth as a shooting star, to let their family on Earth know that they have arrived safely in the spirit land. The milky way is an important part of their culture. Another word used by many Aborigines for the canoe is God.
There are many tribes of Aborigines, not all tribes have the same beliefs.
The southern sky is amazing. You can almost touch the milky way, it is so close.
TOAL-Trip of a Lifetime 