Spider Rock- Navajo LocationLocation · Landmark"Home of Spider-Woman"

The Loom

Spider Rock rises eight hundred feet from the floor of Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona. At its summit lives Spider-Woman. Her husband, Spider Man, built the first loom from elements of creation: cross-poles of sky and earth, a batten of white shell. Spider-Woman taught Navajo women to weave on it, and the knowledge passed down from that spire.

The White Summit

Spider-Woman carries disobedient children to the top of Spider Rock. The white coloring at the peak is their sun-bleached bones. The companion spire beside it, Speaking Rock, watches the people below and reports children's misbehavior to Spider-Woman.

The Hero Twins

Before Monster Slayer and Born for Water set out to reach their father the Sun, they stopped at Spider Rock. Spider-Woman gave them life feathers and told them how to pass the obstacles guarding the Sun's house: the crushing rocks and the boiling sands. Without her, the twins would have walked blind into every trap on the road.