Description
KOKYANWUTI: Native American Creation Myth
Spider Woman, also known as Grandmother Spider, is a creation goddess in many Native American cultures. She appears as a wise, old woman who guides people to wisdom and knowledge, often as a powerful teacher and helper. The Hopis believe that she, weaving her webs, thought the world itself into existence; the Navajo taught that she was the savior of human kind; the Cherokee say she brought light to the people. Grandmother Spider is an entity of primary importance: a mother to humankind, protecting and nurturing people, guiding them along their paths, teaching them how to keep a fire burning, how to fashion clay pots and to weave cloth, thus sharing with humans the spider’s ability to make webs.
In these Native American myths, Spider Woman is the Creator of all things, also known as Thought Woman. She is the stillness, the creative energy before it takes shapes or form. She is all-powerful, a power beyond all imagination. She is the sharpest, most focused thought, the clearest vision, the one with power unimaginable.
One myth tells of the Web of Creation. It speaks of the strands that are interwoven and connect everything in one matrix. When one part of the web is touched, because everything is linked together so intricately, the touch at one end of the web is felt and affects the web all the way to the other end. Nothing exists by itself, unconnected on its own. Everything is part of Grandmother Spider’s Web of Creation.
The jewels of the collection MITI are inspired by mythical characters or events.
Materials: Sterling Silver and Semiprecious stone