Spider

Hellenic religion

• Spider appears in Hellenic religion.

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses seats the spider among Arachne’s transformation after the weaving contest. A named spider in that poem, not a generic insect dump and not a modern tarot-arachnid flatten.

  from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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• Spider is used in Medicine.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats spiders among insects and small creatures entering Roman pharmacological speech. A named spider in that encyclopedia, not Ovid’s Arachne already walked and not a modern tarantula flatten alone.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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• Spider is historically related to Wool.

  In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Spider sits with Wool in textile speech — named together on the working page.

  from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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Nahua tradition

• Spider appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records tocatl in Book 11 insect and small-creature speech — named spider. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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Islam

• Spider appears in Islam.

  The Qur’an (sura 29, al-ʿAnkabūt) strikes the parable of the spider’s house as the frailest of houses. A named spider in that revelation, not Ovid’s Arachne already walked and not the ant of Solomon’s sura.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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