Reading Notes: Spider's Creation, Part A

Spider's Creation, This story is part of the Southwestern and California Legends unit. Story source: Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson

Quotes: 

"The spider drew a line of meal from north to south and then crossed it with another line running east and west."

"So the two mothers created the moon from a slightly black stone, many kinds of yellow stone, turkis, and a red stone, that the world might be lighted at night. But the moon travelled slowly and did not always give light."


"Then the two mothers created the Star People and made their eyes of sparkling white crystal that they might twinkle and brighten the world at night."

(Zia Pueblo, New Mexico)