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Archaeologist Karl Taube (TAU-buh) argued that this animal is the main attribute of the Great Goddess mural at Teotihuacan due to the many examples of them that surround her. (15[1])Taube posited that that Goddess is historically linked to a character with attributes of this animal from Pueblo myth, who in a Hopi story guides humans through the destruction of the first three worlds before arriving in the fourth one they inhabit now. In Ojibwe tradition, Nokomis stopped her grandson from killing one of these animals, who gave her a device to prevent (*) nightmares as thanks. A rock in Canyon de Chelly (deh SHAY) is said to be the home of a Navajo (10[1])grandmother figure named for this animal, whose form is also adopted by (10[1])the Lakota trickster Iktómi. For 10 points, the dreamcatcher mimics the webs spun by what animal? ■END■

ANSWER: spiders [accept Araneae; prompt on arachnids]
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