[MD] spiders and shields

[X Acto]

I thought it interesting that the native peoples Dusenberry associated with, called whites
"spiders" weaving their intellectual webs around them, for Athena, Greek goddess of craft and wisdom
also is a patron of weaving, on the shield of Athena the gorgon .

That is a graver matter, and there, my friend, the modern interpreters of Homer may, 
I think, assist in explaining the view of the ancients. For most of these in their 
explanations of the poet, assert that he meant by Athena "mind" [nous] and "intelligence" 
[dianoia], and the maker of names appears to have had a singular notion about her; 
and indeed calls her by a still higher title, "divine intelligence" [Thou noesis], 
as though he would say: This is she who has the mind better than others. Nor shall 
we be far wrong in supposing that the author of it wished to identify this Goddess 
with moral intelligence [en ethei noesin], and therefore gave her the name ethonoe; 
which, however, either he or his successors have altered into what they thought 
a nicer form, and called her Athena.
—Plato, Cratylus, 407b