Wisdom-teacher and weaving-teacher of the Diné; resident at Spider Rock (the 750-foot sandstone spire in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona). Per the canonical Diné Bahaneʼ tradition, taught the Hero Twins (Monster Slayer and Born for Water) the protective spells and the navigation-techniques required for their pilgrimage to the Sun-Father's house — without Spider Woman's guidance, the Hero Twins would have failed the Sun-Father's four-tests and been unable to receive the lightning-arrow weapons needed for the homeland-purification monster-slaying. Subsequently taught Diné women the art of weaving — the foundational Diné textile-craft tradition that produces the canonical Diné rug-and-blanket weaving heritage. The "spider hole" left in the center of traditional Diné rugs (a small unfinished-section that allows the weaving-spirit to leave the rug) preserves the Spider Woman teaching-tradition explicitly. The Spider Woman figure is structurally parallel to but distinct from cognate-figures across other Indigenous American traditions: the Hopi Spider Grandmother (Kókyangwùuti), the Pueblo Spider Woman, and others — all preserving the broader Indigenous-American spider-as-wisdom-and-weaving-teacher mythologem. The Diné Spider Woman is treated in the registry as deity-class with parents=[] per pantheon-deity convention; her cosmological-totem identification (spider as her natural-form-and-totem) is treated as cosmogonic-class rather than spirit-class.