Spider Old Woman

Primordial 'Old Mother'/spider-ancestress classed 'deity'. 'Ragno' (Italian for 'spider') is the term in de Angulo's published text — his Italian gloss of a Pomo spider-grandmother name; native term not securely recorded, hence term empty.

Domains

• rescue

Powers

• rescue the creators from their own deluge and fire
• Spin the line that rescues the creators

Sources

• Jaime de Angulo & William Ralganal Benson, 'The Creation Myth of the Pomo Indians,' Anthropos 27 (1932).