Spider Grandmother

Spider Grandmother

The Spider Grandmother is creator of the world in Native American religions and myths such as that of the Pueblo and Navajo peoples. She was responsible for the stars in the sky. She took a web she had spun, and laced it with dew. She then threw it into the sky, and the dew became the stars.

Playwright Murray Mednick wrote seven one-act plays called "The Coyote Cycles" [The Coyote Cycles, Padua Playwright's Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0963012616] with the same four characters: Coyote, Coyote trickster, Spider Grandmother and Mute Girl. These same characters come from traditional native American stories and myths.

* [http://www.dandutton.com/halloween_music.html In Daniel Dutton's dance drama "The Road" Spider Grandmother sings "Hanging by a Thread".]

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