Grandmother Spider and the Web of Creation
Many Southwestern and Pueblo traditions teach that Spider Grandmother (Kokyangwuti) wove the world into existence — and that every strand of the web connects every being to every other.
In Hopi, Pueblo, and Navajo traditions, Spider Grandmother is the primal creatrix who thought the world into being and wove it from her own threads. This image teaches that creation is not a single past event but an ongoing weaving — each being continuously participates in the creation of reality through thought, word, and action. The web metaphor pictures the world as a self-maintaining fabric of relationships in which each being is a weaver, not a bystander.
Spider Grandmother thought, and what she thought, came to be.
Anthropologist Frank Waters documented this narrative as central to Hopi cosmology, in which thought itself — not matter — is the fundamental substance of reality.
Hopi oral tradition