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Sussistanako,
Thinking-Woman.
SUSYST1N*KO
Alternate meanings: Thought-Woman, {Thought-Spinner}.
[to Whom the fourteenth day of December, day 348, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: America, North: Pueblo people. Hopi.
Linguistic Note: the main meaning is from Stone AMW v2 92, the first alternate meaning from Allen SH 13.
Description: Goddess of creation; She Who forms every person; She to Whom everyone is attached by a thread from the head; Spider-Woman, She Who wove the web that eventually drew the sun up into this world.
To Whom Sacred: spider; webs; song.
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She has a Triple quality with Her Sisters:
Uretsete, ----
and Naotsete, ----
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Titles/Variants, etc:
- See also Greek Arachne, Weavver.
- See also Cherokee Aunelanuhi, Apportioner, the sun.
- Also called Hatai-Wugti, Spider-Woman, below.
- It is said that Keres Iyatiku, The-Mother-Corn, derives Her Mothering competance from Sussistanako, Thought-Woman.
- It is rather confusing to know that She is also called Spider-Woman, though this is a translation of Hatai-Wugti, (below), an alternate name for Sussistanako, Thinking-Woman.
- Also called
Thought-Woman
, one of the alternative meanings of Her name.
- Transliteration, or dialect variant:
Tse-Che-Nako
, Thought-Woman.
- Transliteration, or dialect variant
Tsitsicinako
.
Source: Allen SH 13, 16; Stone AMWv2 92-93.
Hatai-Wugti, Spider-Woman.
H*TI-U1GTE
Geography/Culture: America, North: people of the southwestern desert (Zuni and Hopi?).
Description: Big bodied Earth Goddess.
To Whom Sacred: big-bodied desert spider.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Also known as Awitelin-Tsita, {Earth-Mother}, Who is linked with Zuni Awonawilona, All-Container.
- Probably also known by the alternate name
Kokyangwuti
, K0KY1ÑWUGTE, ----.
- It may Hatai-Wugti Who is meant when the Goddess is referred to as Spider-Woman.
- An alternate name for Sussistanako, Thinking-Woman, above.
Source: Monaghan BGH 129.
Naotsete, ----
N*OTSATA
Geography/Culture: America, North.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Variant
Nautsiti
.
- Variant
Nau-Ut-Set
.
- Sister of Sussistanako, Thinking-Woman, above
- Sister of Uretsete, ----, below
Source: Stone AMWv2 92-93
Uretsete, ----.
WRATSATA
Geography/Culture: America, North.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Sister of Naotsete, ----, above
- Sister of Sussistanako, Thinking-Woman, above
- Variant
Itsictsiti
.
- She came to be seen as essentially the same as Iyatiku, The-Mother-Corn.
- Variant
Ut-Set
.
Source: Stone AMWv2 92-93
worked on: links revised January 1997; October, May 1995; July 1991; June 1990.
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