Daylight

Did you know that some of the Native American tribal nations revere the spider?  In some of the Native American legends, the people were in darkness. Everyone was bumping into his neighbor.  The bear would trip over the badger; the coyote would bump into the rabbit. 
                                       

They got tired of trying to find their way in the darkness, and they all came together and agreed that what they needed was some light. They knew that on the far side of the
Earth, the people there had light. They decided to send someone to get a small piece of the light and bring it back so they could see where to walk and what to eat. 

After Buzzard [sun burned off all of his beautiful head feathers when he tried to balance a piece on his head] and Opossum [sun burned off his tail fur when he tried to carry a piece back in his thick, bushy tail] tried unsucessfully to bring back a piece of the sun to the dark side of the Earth, Grandmother Spider went to the place of the sun, and
cunningly used her web to catch a piece of the sun and drag it back to the dark side. 

The people could all see the light coming over the horizon, and with it they could see the beautiful rays of a web. That is why the sun's light radiates out like the spokes of a spider's web--it was Grandmother Spider who brought the sun to the people.

How can you not like the clever spider who brought light into the darkness? And...now you know why the buzzard is bald, and why the American 'possum has a hairless tail.