Doesn't that artist's conception have the galaxy perpendicular to the solar ecliptic?
Looks like it, but then, that's how the Solar System is.
"Crossing the Milky Way at the constellation Scorpio is the ecliptic, the apparent path of the sun, moon, and planets as they move against the background of stars."
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/Maya_Milkyway.html&edu=high