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
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