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Spiders are depicted in Indigenous Australian art, in rock and bark paintings, and for clan totems. Spiders in their webs are associated with a sacred rock in central Arnhem Land on the Burnungku clan estate of the Rembarrnga/Kyne people. Their totem design is connected with a major regional ceremony, providing a connection with neighboring ...
Frigga is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. [2] The name is derived from Frigga, a Norse goddess. Species
Pages in category "Mythological spiders" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Phalanx (mythology) S. Spider Grandmother; T. Tsuchigumo
Norse demons (2 P) T. Trolls (3 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Creatures in Norse mythology" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
“The Spider Woman or Grandmother Spider legends are part of the creation mythology for many Native American cultures. In West African folklore, Anansi is a spider known for his cunning and trickery.
(Norse mythology) Pair Dadeni (Cauldron of Rebirth), a magical cauldron able to revive the dead. (Welsh mythology) Cauldron of the Dagda, a cauldron where no company ever went away from it unsatisfied, it is said to be bottomless. (Celtic mythology) Cauldron of Hymir, a mile-wide cauldron which the Æsir wanted to brew beer in. (Norse mythology)
Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds. Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda compiled in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the Nordic folklore of the modern period.