Spider Lady

 

Weaving is often associated with spiders spinning their webs.  The Navaho, weaving their beautiful textiles, have their Spider Woman mythologies.  Spider Women spun her web and through it into the sky, where it became the night, and the dew became the stars.

 http://www.rainewalker.com/spiderwoman%20page.htmstars.

 In First Nations legends, spider women are not depicted as grotesques, or as dark ladies, or creatures of gothic fantasy.

Spider Woman was the creator of the world.  The impulse to create, especially artistically, especially through the art of weaving, was one of her gifts. And writers are like spiders, spinning their thoughts into words. :)

 


The weaver sees her fiber as the poet sees her word.
The thread feels the hand, as the word feels the tongue.
Structures of feeling in the double sense
of sensing and signifying,
the word and the thread feel our passing.

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Is the word the conducting thread, or does thread
     conduct the word-making?
Both lead to the centre of memory, a way of uniting
     and connecting.
A word carries another word as thread searches for
    thread.
A word is pregnant with other words and a thread
     contains
other threads within its interior.
Metaphors in tension, the word and the thread
     carry us beyond
threading and speaking, to what unites us, the
     immortal fiber.

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To speak is to thread and the thread weaves the
     world.

from 

Cecilia Vicuña: Word & Thread