Thread:Primestar3/@comment-25192437-20150125144412/@comment-25192437-20150125153726

Primestar3 wrote: I removed Great Weaver's image on its page. That image was The Other, right? I read Other storyline but didn't read any stories about that totem thing except Other. Retcons are a tricky business. When J. Michael Straczynski introduced introduced the concept of totemic spider-deities, the concept was vague. He started out by introducing the Great Weaver, who spins a mystical force called the "Web of Life" that gives all the spider-themed heroes their powers. After Morlun and Shathra have been dealt with, a second totemic spider-deity called the Gatekeeper arrives and tells Peter that Ezekiel had been lying to him, that he'd stolen his powers, and that one of them had to die.

During Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Vol 1, Morlun came back and beat Peter half to death. When he breaks Mary Jane's arm trying to finish the job, Peter partially turns into Man-Spider and kills Morlun, then sheds his skin and wraps himself in a cocoon under the George Washington Bridge. He has a vision of the Great Weaver, who offers him a new chance at life by embracing his inner spider. Peter accepts the offer and is reborn with new supernatural spider-powers, like night vision and stingers.

What's left of his original body is eaten by pirate spiders and manifests into a humanoid entity called "Ero" in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Vol 1 4. Ero tells Peter that Morlun should have killed him, but the Great Weaver didn't want Peter to die and resurrected him. It then states that it was opposed to this and manifested to kill him and restore the natural order. Ero disappeared for a while, then came back in human form as "Miss Arrow", where she displayed powers similar to Peter's new ones when in human form, and tried to reproduce by impregnating Flash Thompson with an egg sack that would feed off his tantric energy and emerge Chestburster-style. Spider-Man killed her before she could do so by feeding the spiders to a flock of birds and stepping on the last one.

Post-One More Day, however, Peter no longer has stingers or organic webbing (which he got from the Queen), but no explanation was given as to why. Kaine, meanwhile, comes back from the dead after being killed by the Kravinoffs and is dosed with the Queen's venom, which transforms him into the Tarantula before healing his disfigurations and giving him organic web shooters.

Scarlet Spider Vol 2 and Spider-Verse split the concept of JMS' Great Weaver into two parts: a totemic deity that spins the Web of Life and gives the totems their powers, which was renamed the Master Weaver in Spider-Verse; and the entity that resurrected Peter and Kaine with new powers, which was given the name "The Other" and composited with Ero for some reason.

So, to summarize,through a series of retcons the character of the Great Weaver was split into the Master Weaver and The Other, and the Other was combined with Ero.