The sun woman, the spider grandmother and the twins

North America: legend kioiva

Spiders are considered messengers and are always a positive signal, except for poisonous spiders (black spiders, tarantulas, etc.), which indicate that someone is telling lies about their person.

While playing, a girl left a basket with her sister inside hung on a branch of a tree. A red bird sang for the baby from the top of the tree. Attracted by the bird, the girl came out of the basket to catch him. The higher the girl was, the more the tree grew, and the farther the red bird was.

When she arrived at the bird, the young woman was already a woman and had come to the house of the Sun. The Sun turned into a bird. He told her that he had fallen in love with her after seeing her from above. She asked her never to take a specific plant out of the garden when they decided to get married.

She had a son. She spent many hours alone at home and felt desolate at the absence of her family. Out of curiosity, he took the plant that had been forbidden to touch the sun and through the hole he could observe his community. Her nostalgia was so great that she grabbed her son and hung him by the hole with a rope. He began to descend, but suddenly the sun appeared and, when he saw her, he became angry and threw him a ring that cut off the rope. The woman, with her child on her back, threw herself into the vacuum.

The child did not die, since it fell on his mother. Grandma Spider found the child and decided to raise him in her store. The boy grew up and one day, his grandmother gave him the ring of the sun to explain to him what had happened. He told him he would never blow it, but one day the boy threw it and the ring returned to him, dividing it into two identical persons. The grandmother welcomed the two children to her home and when she saw them, she understood what had happened.

The two young men always walked together and one day they met a group of criminals, so they sought refuge in a very dark cave. The brothers were stifled by the smoke that the enemies lit at the door, but by pronouncing a conspiracy that their grandmother had taught them, the smoking was diluted and they were able to get out of the cave when the enemy departed, convinced that they had killed them.

After several walks, the twins found their home and said goodbye to Grandma Spider, who wept sadly, and moved to their mother's village. It is said that one of them went to bathe in the river and became an aquatic animal; the other became a well-known and respected leader, who when concerned about some important matter approaches the bank of the rivers and talks with an Aquatic animal that approaches him.

He works as a human messenger or reference. If an Indian was at a crossroads, he only had to look at the antelope footprints to find the right path.