Spiders Used As Serious Monsters In Ancient Greece

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Spiders are seen as vicious disgusting monsters. Everytime you see a spider, we think of getting rid of them. In other cultures spiders are a symbol of peace and revered as a god. Some cultures that think of highley of this eight leg insect are Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Africa, and Peru, and Asia. In Egypt, the spider is tied to the god, Neith. She was the spinner and weaver of destiny. They would pray and look at the spider as a god and treat it as such. In Rome, and Greece they have culture and folklore closely tied together. They had a story about a spider princess named Arachne. The story talks about how the spider became so good at weaving that she challenged the god Athena. Arachne won,l but Athena was so mad that she was better that

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