Disclaimer: This drawing was vaguely inspired by another drawing I saw online, it stuck out to me and I felt inspired to make something similar.

My god, drawing old ladies is hard...

Another drawing done in honor of Women's History Month. This is in response to the drawings of the Three Sisters and White Buffalo Woman I did.

I introduce you to Spider Grandmother. She has many names, the Hopi call her Kokyangwuti, the Diné (Navajo) call her Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá, and I believe the A:shiwi (Zuni) call her Gogyeng Sowuhti, the Ojibwe Chippewa (Saulteaux) call her Asibikaashi, but for convenience, I will refer to her as Kokyangwuti in this description.

Kokyangwuti takes the form of a very old woman who can transform into a spider. Legends has it that her home is the Spider Rock Mesa within the Canyon de Chelley National Park in the American State of Arizona.

According to legends, Kokyangwuti is a leader, a healer, and wise woman who represents all things good. She is at times identified as an Earth Goddess and she was married to the Hopi Sun God, Taza apparently. Kokyangwuti and Taza created the Earth and the animals, women, and men.

To the Hopi, all men are created in the image of Taza and all women are created in the image of Kokyangwuti.

She shows up in the prominently in the myths of the A:shiwi, Diné, and Hopi tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. She also appears in other Native American tribes' myths, like Coyote, the great trickster coyote god.

She has appeared in the myths of the the Lakȟóta (Lakota) of North Dakota and South Dakota, the Coosan of Oregon, and Chahta (Choctaw) of Tennessee and Mississippi.

She has even appeared in the myths of the First Nations of Canada, specifically Ojibwe Chippewa in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba.

She is possibly the most well-known Native American deity behind Coyote himself.