Spider Man- Navajo GodDeity
Also known as: Na'ashjé'ii Hastiin
Description
He built the first loom from sky and earth, strung it with sun rays and sheet lightning, then gave it to Spider Woman. She did the rest: she learned the art and taught it to the Navajo people. The loom was his. The weaving was hers.
Mythology & Lore
The First Loom
Spider Woman needed something to weave on. Spider Man built it. According to Reichard's account, he made the cross-poles from sky and earth and strung sun rays for the warp. For heddles he used rock crystal and sheet lightning, and for the batten a sun halo. Every piece drawn from the Glittering World itself. When Spider Woman sat down at this loom, she was not working with a tool but with the materials of creation.
She learned the art, then taught it to the Navajo people. Spider Man's part was finished once the loom stood upright. The traditional Navajo loom preserves his design: an upright frame, the same structure he first assembled from lightning and sky.
The couple lives at Spider Rock, the 750-foot sandstone spire in Canyon de Chelly. The stone stands so narrow and so high that it looks like something placed there on purpose.
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