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Thorkild Jacobsen argued that Uttu was envisioned as a spider spinning a web. [5] However, the connection between Uttu and spiders, or more precisely between her name and the Akkadian word ettūtu ("spider"), is limited to a single text, and it might represent a "learned etymology" (scribal speculation), [3] a folk etymology [1] or simply rely on the terms being nearly homophonous. [6]
In Baltic myth, Saule is the life-affirming sun goddess, whose numinous presence is signed by a wheel or a rosette. She spins the sunbeams. She spins the sunbeams. The Baltic connection between the sun and spinning is as old as spindles of the sun-stone, amber , that have been uncovered in burial mounds.
In Albanian folk beliefs the Ora and Fatí are the weavers of destiny, who control the order of the universe and enforce its laws. [29] They are described as a group of three goddesses who gather in the night to perform the task of "determining the child's fate at birth" and distribute their favours upon the child. [30]
Carl Ruck and Danny Staples, The World of Classical Myth, 1994. William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870, article on Moira, ancientlibrary.com; R. G. Wunderlich (1994). The secret of Crete. Efstathiadis group, Athens pp. 290–291, 295–296. (British Edition, Souvenir Press Ltd. London 1975) ISBN 960-226-261-3
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