Spider Webs Over God’s Eyes

In the old time, when the Greek worshipped images of their gods, it was said that when spiders stretched their webs across the eyelids of the image of Jupiter, the people were regular in their attendance to worship. They liked to feel that the spiders’ webs were preventing Jupiter from seeing their sins, and in their poor, feeble way were, no doubt, grateful to the insects for covering the eyes of a god who, they thought, would punish them for their sins if he could see their ways.
~ W. Birch