The goddess Athena taught people war and sew embroidery. Lydian women were famous for their weaving and embroidery. Lidian Arakhne was very famous in embroidery work. Everyone came to hear his fame. Fairy girls were among the followers. One day they told Arakhne that she had learned from the goddess Athena absolutely embroidery. Arakhne was feel very bad in this situation and told that had learned the embroidery on her own, that she had embroidered more beautifully than the Goddess Athena and that she could compete with it. The fairy girls told these things to the goddess athena immediately. Athena was very angry with this situation. She went to Arakhne like in an old woman's and advised her that she should forgive pray to Athena. Arakhne repeated what she had said she wanted to compete. Nervous Athena took on her real identity and accepted Arakhne's race offer and started embroidering. Athena embroidered the daily lives of the gods. Arakhne has embroidered a world of love, peace and happiness. Athena liked the embroidery of Arakhne and fought with Arakhne in anger. Arakhne was very upset with it and went to the roof to hang himself to commit suicide. Athena thought that she was unfair to Arakne and the beautiful girl immediately turned her into a spider before she died. Since then, Arakhne has been sentenced to knit a hidden secret network between the roofs. Arakhne is at old greek language means spider and Araknafobia is coming from here.
