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S1E5 - Arachne the Weaver

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Arachni's Tapestry

A tapestry is a piece of thick textile fabric with pictures or designs formed by weaving colored threads. A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon caused by the dispersion of light in water droplets. Zeus watched over Athena as she wove with great pride. But then he went to see what Arachni was up to and everything changed. He fixed his eyes on Arachni, but she wisely chose not to meet his gaze,. instead keeping her head down to continue working even though she knew she was in danger. The crowd did not get to choose the winner. And this contest had yielded such spectacular results that he decided to come down from Olympus to see each weaving up close. This

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