The Heavenly Mother as Creatrix

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18 minutes ago, Bernard Gui said:

I'll have to check. I used the Hooi rather than the Navajo myth because it's older. The Navajo learned it from them.

It's Sotuknang that met the people upon their emergence into the Fourth World [Americas].  He's variously listed as Spider Woman's son, husband and father.  Spider Woman is also listed as the Earth G-ddess to Tawa's Sky G-d.

I guess it depends upon which village and which tradition.

Spider Woman is, in any case, at very least a demiurgical being under somebody's leadership:  In this version, a Father, Son and Creator Mother create the universe:

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First Spider Woman took some earth and mixed it with saliva to make two beings. Over them she sang the Creation Song, and they came to life. She instructed one of them, Poqanghoya, to go across the earth and solidify it. She instructed the other, Palongawhoya, to send out sound to resonate through the earth, so that the earth vibrated with the energy of the Creator. Poqanghoya and Palongawhoya were despatched to the poles of the earth to keep it rotating.

      Then Spider Woman made all the plants, the flowers, the bushes, and the trees. Likewise she made the birds and animals, again using earth and singing the Creation Song. When all this was done, she made human beings, using yellow, red, white, and black earth mixed with her saliva. Singing the Creation Song, she made four men, and then in her own form she made four women. At first they had a soft spot in their foreheads, and although it solidified, it left a space through which they could hear the voice of Sotuknang and their Creator. Because these people could not speak, Spider Woman called on Sotuknang, who gave them four languages. His only instructions were for them to respect their Creator and to live in harmony with him.  http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/CS/CSFourCreations.html

 

This version, from Book of the Hopi, is the one I was thinking about.