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Hi everyone!

I’ve been thinking — threads and fiber arts are everywhere in mythology and folklore. Fate is spun, destiny is woven, protective charms are tied with knots…

What examples do you know?

• Myths where someone spins or weaves fate?
• Folklore about magical thread, yarn, or cloth?
• Traditions where knots or red threads are used as protection?
• Books that explore fiber arts in mythology?

Share a story, a quote, a title, or even just a small detail you love.

Let’s see how many stories are woven into this group. 🧵✨

There was this book I read a while back, it was Chinese mythology, and it had something about red thread that connects everyone destined to meet. I can't quite remember the details, but the title is Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

There's also the Fates that cut a person's life thread in Greek mythology.

I can't think of any others at the moment

Sophie [semi-hiatus] wrote: "There was this book I read a while back, it was Chinese mythology, and it had something about red thread that connects everyone destined to meet. I can't quite remember the details, but the title i..."

Yes, I’ve come across this mystical Chinese legend of the red thread of fate in various forms.
A few years ago, I read about similar stories in Slavic mythology — about destiny ( or “dolia”) quietly guiding a person.
It feels as if, across different cultures, people sensed the same thing: a soft, invisible connection linking us through time and distance.

I've been meaning to add a comment in here, but I keep getting side-tracked.

In many mythologies and folklore there are several mentions about spiritual disciplines that work with what some have called "the real World-wide Web" also the "Lines of Life".

I only book I currently have to hand to recheck that is one of Carlos Casteneda's books, 'The Second Ring of Power', that I read in college. I had to dig it out of a box, but haven't had time to re-read it yet; I will.

In it he talks about the women sorceresses whom he has seen climbing around on what looks to him like webbing in the sky around one of their adobe homes, saying first time he saw them do this, he couldn't see the webbing, but then (something happened with...one of the women showing him?) so then he could see the interconnected webs.

I need to do more research!

Our Buddhist teachers tell us that, yes everthing is interconnected and alive, and even if it looks inanimate (like rocks or mountains, etc), it's just moving on a different life-cycle than human.

Sorry, I only had a minute to address this, but would like to follow through, and also hear from others.