Geography/Culture: Greek: Lydian, Colophon. Numerous seals with a spider emblems have been found at Cretan Miletus, mother city of Carian Miletus and the largest exporter of dyed woollens in the ancient world.
Linguistic Note: from {material lost--stop looking--rewrite}, spider. Related English word:{material lost--stop looking--rewrite}, spiders.
Description: Goddess of destiny and textile industries; Matron of spinning, weaving and dyeing; Fate-weaver; Eponym of the spider family; Matron of graphic representation}; She Who portrayed the love-affairs of the deities (the raping of mortal women by Gods).
Some say the familiar legend is a misinterpretation of early images of Athene, I-Have-Come-From-Myself, with Her spider and web. Others suggest it expresses competition between Athens and the Lydian or Carian cloth exporters.
To Whom Sacred: spider; web (both in the sense of woven material as a web and as a cobweb); fly caught in a cobweb (symbol of humanity's helplessness in the web of fate. Fly was a common archaic symbol of the human soul, even thought to be the actual embodiment of the soul in passage from one life to the next WEMS/54); wool; {loom}; rope/thread; the color purple; murex, especially murex trunculus, source of royal purple dye; {Arachne's Web, a net of veins covering the brain}.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Daughter of Colophon, Summit, below.
• She is associated with Athene, {I-Have-Come-From-Myself}. Perhaps an earlier, or conquered people's Goddess absorbed in Athene, then mortalized & belittled.
• Compare with North American Sussistanako, Thinking-Woman.

Geography/Culture: Lydia.
Linguistic Note: kappa-omikron-lambda-omikron-phi-omega-nu, (kolofon), a summit, top, finishing. Related English word: colophon (An inscription, usually at the end of a book giving facts pertaining to its publication).
Description: Eponym of the place Colophon.
Male Associates: consort Idmon, Knowing.
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