Sky (Terran myth)

Sky, or Sun, is a character in Proto-Terran Mythology and its descendant religions. She is the god of the daytime sky and the Sun, and the ancestral mother of all spiders.

Origin
Storytellers in the Terran Mingle conceived of Sky as the bearer and ultimate canopy mother of all Vital spiders. The Sun was seen as either her physical manifestation or one of her eight eyes, with stories being concocted to explain why only one of her eyes remained.

Interpretations
Most cultures believed that Sky was the superior to her siblings, Moon and Ground, and that she used Ground's sperm gifts to create the first generation of Terran spiders. Until Moon mated with the Virile children of Sky and Ground, all female spiders were strong; according to most myths, Moon's folly created the Pliants, who were weaker than the offspring of Sky and considered inferior. Some cultures, such as the Mopsus Coastal Culture, did not rely on the perceived Vital-Pliant split, so the gendered aspects of the Sky myth were downplayed or disregarded altogether.

In the oldest form of the Sky myth, and the one still outlined in Documentist and Sun Worship beliefs, she and Moon were considered rivals, and it was her fight with a parasitized Moon that led to the gouging out of seven of Sky's eyes, with the remaining eye becoming the Sun.