Native Americans Believe a Giant Spider Gave Birth to the World
The Birth of Spider Lady
By Spider Lady, published Nov 06, 2007
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The family name was an inheritance that came with middle-eastern dance and many myths. There are many middle-eastern myths about Spiders. One, was that Cain was marked with a spider mark so he would be shunned. Second, was that the spider saved both the baby Jesus and The Prophet Mohamed by weaving a web. In the Eenglish version Sir Blake was saved in the same manner.
So off to the Faire I went with a bag full of plastic spiders and a dozen spider myths as my shtick. (You can see clip on Youtube.com.)
In my first article on AC entitled The Fragile Web, I discussed having been in trouble at a job of over 10 years when I joked my sister Arachne was turned into a spider. Since then, I have spent the past few weeks in a spider warp. It's not funny but, my car got hit while driving home the next day and the other driver said there were spiders on his dashboard which diverted his attention (He also had a pile of books on mood disorders on his front seat). I got in the car a couple days later and felt like Little Miss Muffet when a spider dropped into my lap. And at this moment, there is a small black spider above my desk watching me.
So, I as I often do, I read Catherine Foote's The Weaver from the book Survivor Prayers and I wonder how to weave the loose pieces of my life. I know "The Weaver will not be discouraged or deterred. We weave a fabric which not one's violence will destroy, and I have discovered the beauty of me."
Deciding that spiders had clearly become my totem animal, I decide to do some research. Do you know there is a museum in Australia dedicated to spiders? So I guess you might say I have become a bit of arachnologist. And seem to be forming a spider guild.
Native Americans Believe a Giant Spider Gave Birth to the World
Giant 3 foot spider given to me by my sister Parvaneh reminds me to spin the past and the future together creatively.
Credit: Helena Zahara
Copyright: Helena Zahara
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Takeaways
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Did You Know?
I am collecting spiders. No live specimins! Mail spiders to Helena Zahara (Spider Lady), Box 19725, Indianapolis, Indiana 46219
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