Talk:Spider Grandmother

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Playwright
Removed unattributed description of Murray Mednick as "Native American playwright", as sources indicate Mednick is Jewish. See for example NY Times theater review of "Joe and Betty" at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E1DB153DF931A15751C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1. Derekcslater (talk) 05:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

protective spider grandmother
Among numerous parallels with Mesoamerica in Mississippian times may be the protective Spider Grandmother goddess. Writing of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex of prehistoric North America, Susan Power in Early Art of the Southeastern Indians, Feathered Serpents & Winged Beings, University of Georgia Press 2004, p. 128-129:


 * “Specific Mississippian objects were linked symbolically with gender, especially shell gorgets, which possess associations with particular designs…. People wore these gorgets suspended around the neck from a cord or narrow strip of leather. […] Small gorgets with spider designs were usually found in burials of infants and children. […] Clearly, artists created shell gorgets with specific designs linked with age and gender. Gorget designs expressing fertility contrast with the hawk-men-style gorgets from the Georgia-Tennessee area. Therefore, shell gorgets with spider designs are linked with infants and children, while triskele designs are associated with women and the hawk-men design is linked with men (in the Georgia-Tennessee area).”

64.90.143.2 (talk) 00:06, 22 June 2010 (UTC)Samgwan Spiess

Cleanup
Why and where does this article need cleanup? How should it be cleaned up? Hyacinth (talk) 02:07, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Misinformation
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Editing and Adding New Information
Hello, in the next week or so I will be adding new information to this Article. The details of that information I will post in here as the information is added. Just wanted to let everyone know Ghostygoo (talk) 06:14, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * All of the information I have/ will add to the article have come from this sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ghostygoo/sandbox/article_contribution_draft

If more information is needed about my edits/additions please let me know. I am new to thisGhostygoo (talk) 06:29, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I have added the new information to the Hopi mythology section, including the creation stories, Navajo mythology section, and the other section. I have added new information to the other regions section and I added the Spider Grandmother in Other Works section. I also took this sentence "In Hopi mythology, "Spider Grandmother" (Hopi Kokyangwuti) is the creator of humans, identified with the "Earth Goddess"." and split it in half and reinserted it into the new information to help it flow better. This can also be found in the sandbox listed above. Ghostygoo (talk) 07:47, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I Have added all of the information in the other myths section under the Hopi Mythology section.Ghostygoo (talk) 07:39, 30 April 2019 (UTC)