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Spiderwoman

<bCome Into My Parlor...</b

About Me



We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

My Interests

Music, Art, Vegetarian Cooking, Animals, Fun, Life, Love, Learning, and the Pittsburgh Steelers!

I'd like to meet:

Really Cool People!

Music:

Punk, Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Heavy Metal, Grunge, Death Metal, Ska, Oi, Rock Steady, Reggae, Old Skool Jamz, Hip-Hop, Freestyle, Blues, Improvisational Jazz, Classic Jazz, Acid Jazz, World Beat, Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Noise, Trance, Drum-n-Bass, Jungle, Ambient, and various weird sounds that make others cringe...

Movies:

Trains Planes and Automobiles, Nightmare Before Xmas, Apocolyspe Now, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver, Things to do in Denver When You're Dead, Eight Heads in a Duffle Bag, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Clerks, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, Alien, Bruce Lee movies, Jackie Chan movies, Jet Li movies, Cheech & Chong movies, Delicatessen, City of the Lost Children, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, Phantasmagoria, Hell Raiser, Clockwork Orange, Caligula, Beaches, Portrait of Dorian Grey, The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven, Diary of a Madman, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tingler, House on Haunted Hill, Suicide Kings, The Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Biloxi Blues, At Close Range, U Turn, Lost Highway, Twin Peaks, Dead Man Walking, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Green Mile, Cast Away, Forest Gump, Big, The Man With One Red Shoe, James and The Giant Peach, Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, Jungle Book, Lion King, Legend, The Dark Crystal, Mememto, City of God, Decline of Western Civilization series, Next Friday series, Office Space, Born Free, and many, many, more...

Television:

F/X, A&E, Court TV, Discovery, IFC, Sundance, HBO, National Geographic, Link TV, CNN, PBS, BBC, KTEH, KCSM, some FOX programs

Books:

Too many to name...

Heroes:

Spiderwoman (of course);Our US Veterans;Anyone who stands for truth, love, and human/animal rights. A BIG HUG to all the members of: GREENPEACE, PETA, NORML, & NOW

My Blog

falsehoods about spiders

Myth: "I'm very kind to spiders; when I find one in the house, I put it back outside instead of killing it." Fact: You can't put something "back" outside which was never outside in the first plac...
Posted by Spiderwoman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Information on the Mysterious SpiderDance of old Italy and Europe

Spiders, songs and suffering in Salento, Italy We go to the deep south of Italy where magic mixes with religion and celebration with suffering in a time-worn dance of the soul the tarantula's bite ...
Posted by Spiderwoman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Southwestern Native American SpiderWoman Lore

In the beginning, there was the dark purple light at the dawn of being. Spider Woman spun a line to form the east, west, north, and south. Breath entered man at the time of the yellow light. At the ...
Posted by Spiderwoman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Greek Myth of Spiderwoman

THE BIRTH OF THE FIRST SPIDER Athena transforms bak to Herself before the Insolent ArachneArachne was a very talented young peasant girl who was an excellent spinner and weaver of wool. Her talen...
Posted by Spiderwoman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sioux Legend of Big Spider

UNKTOMI AND THE ARROWHEADS There were once upon a time two young men who were very great friends, and were constantly together. One was a very thoughtful young man, the other very impulsive, who ...
Posted by Spiderwoman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Standing Bear's spider story

Standing Bear's Spider Story... How Grandmother Spider Brought Fire to the People In the beginning there was no fire, and the world was cold, until the Thunders, who lived up in Galun lati (Gah-l...
Posted by Spiderwoman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hopi formation of Clans Legend

Origin of the Clans Hopi Native American Lore A long time ago, when the Hopi Tribe was emerging from the First World, their people started to hunt for the land of the rising sun. Moving ...
Posted by Spiderwoman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hopi Snake Myth and Spider Woman

A Southwest Native Myth "The spider woman is the wisdom keeper, the grandmother figure, the female figure. When I wanted to get out from my illness, there was a spider woman in my mind who spoke ...
Posted by Spiderwoman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Spiderwoman Legend

Navajo Story: Spider Rock stands with awesome dignity and beauty over 800 feet high in Arizona's colourful Canyon de Chelly National Park (pronounced da Shay). Geologists of the National Park Ser...
Posted by Spiderwoman on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST