a region of the sky to which a dead king was said to ascend, most likely the Milky Way[Pyramid Texts]
c. 2345-2333 B.C.E., Pyramid of King Teti, south wall of the passage between the burial chamber and antechamber, Pyramid Text spell 262, section 24 (trans. Allen):[1][2]
nj ḫsb.n sw ꜥḥ-ḥḏ wrw jr msqt-sḥdw
The White Palace of the great ones cannot bar him from the Beaten Path of Stars.
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 21–22.