the Spider of Heaven's Road

Animal helper / spirit-class, classed as deity per the instruction to map spirit-classes to deity/demigod. The agent of the creator's ascent in the spider-thread cycle, and the aetiology of why heaven is now unreachable; sex unspecified in the sources.

Domains

• threshold between worlds

Powers

• spin the thread that joins earth and sky

Sources

• Jalla, A. (1921). Litaba za Sicaba sa Malozi. Cape Town.
• Werner, A. (1933). Myths and Legends of the Bantu. London: George G. Harrap, ch. III.