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This week: Myths of the Spider Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating  
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Behold the spider's web!
Can you see nature's beauty unfolded?
Do you see adaptation to the highest degree,
in the spider's web molded?
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Spiders are common creatures in every country of the world. They are also common in the myth and folklore universe. In some myths they are the creator and in others the trickster. In all their incarnations they weave webs of some type and are symbols of patience and persistence. They are also inspirations to artist of all types and genre.
One of the most well-known myths is about Arachne, who challenged Athena to a weaving competition. When the competition was over, Athena found that Arachne's weaving was of a better quality, so Athena angrily destroyed it. Arachne, in a fit of depression, hung herself. Athena, for whatever reason, turned the rope into a web and Arachne into a spider.
In some Native American legends, spiders make an appearance in the creation stories. In the Hopi legends, Spider woman is the representation of the Earth goddess. She assisted Towa, the Sun god, in creating the human race. While in Cherokee folklore, Grandmother spider is the woman who brought light to the world.
In the folklore of West Africa, Anansi--a spider--is the trickster god, who continually causes trouble and plays tricks on humans and his fellow animals. In Celtic myths, spiders are beneficial and associated with weaving. According to one source, they could also be associated with the Celtic goddess Arianrhod.
Question: Is there a better metaphor for the Internet than a spider's web? Why or why not?
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Excerpt: I found the sign completely by accident - an arrow pointing up a side road and “Snot County Fayre” written in hastily-painted black lettering. It did not seem particularly official and the narrow road indicated was not very promising either. I can’t imagine anything more tempting to my curiosity.
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Excerpt: Safely out of the planet’s atmosphere, Margot let off the throttle and turned on autopilot. Outside her viewport on the starboard side of the ship, she could see the transport security shuttle following close behind. With an OK over the radio, she turned off comms and leaned back in her seat. What a strange little planet.
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Excerpt: The image of a dragon that most have is of creatures with a rough scaly skin like a leather hide couch, bat-like webbed wings and vicious claws. Such was the dragon of Wales who fought a lengthy battle with his foe and is now remembered by Welsh on their national flag. The Welsh Dragon was associated with Wales in the Historia Brittonum. This ancient text, purportedly written around 830 by the monk Nennius, is the earliest known history of the Britons, and neighbouring Wales. In the Historia a struggle is described between two dragons, deep underground beneath the hill of Dinas Emrys in Wales which prevented King Vortigern from building a castle in Britain.
Excerpt: As dawn creeps over the jagged peaks of the Katarik Mountains, it brings with it a deep orange hue, uncommon for the city in the valley below. The eerie light is the product of more than three months of drought, combined with an unprecedented heat wave. The air is laden with dust, stirred up from fields that now bear nothing but scorched crops. The ridges that once stood as green guardians between the sea and Hakari Prime’s capital city show little contrast in color against the sky above. Once full of life, the forest that covers the face of the mountains now stands as a tinderbox waiting to explode.
Excerpt: Welcome to Fantasy Garden.
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and beautiful seas and oceans of blue and green.
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Excerpt: I was lost. Panicked, I began to run, but the further I went the more I realised I recognised none of my surroundings. Heart racing, I wanted to scream, but forced myself to stop running, to take a breath.
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. The only stories I can recall reading that had shape-shifting dragons were the Dragonlance novels. I am writing my own novel(s) in which most of the dragons have the ability to shape-shift. My own main character is a hybrid dragon (elf/dragon) and has the ability.
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