Spider Grandmother
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Spider Grandmother is an important figure in the mythology, oral traditions and folklore of many Native American cultures, especially in the Southwestern United States.
Navajo blanket: the cross is a traditional symbol of Spider Woman.
"Spider Rock", Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; legendary home to the Navajo Spider Grandmother
Hopi mythology
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The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditi
Spider Grandmother
…an important figure in the mythology, oral traditions and folklore of many Native American cultures, especially in the Southwestern United States. In Hopi mythology, "Spider Grandmother" (Hopi Kokyangwuti) also called "Gogyeng Sowuhti" among many other names can take the shape of an old, or timeless woman or the…
Hopi water jar with image of a Kachina, 1890
Tawa, the sun spirit and creator in Hopi mythology.
An Ancestral Puebloan petroglyph in Mesa Verde National Park. The boxy spiral shape near the center of the photo likely represents the "sipapu", the place where the Ancestral Puebloans emerged from the earth in their creation story.
Drawings of kachina dolls from an 1894 anthropology book.