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Vol. II · Polytheism
Grandmother Spider
Southeast fire bringer
the tiny spider hiding the first coal of fire inside her pottery bowl to bring warmth and light to the shivering people
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.