The word network indicates that resources are concentrated in a few places — the knots and the nodes — which are connected with one another — the links and the mesh: these connections transform the scattered resources into a net that may seem to extend everywhere.

— Latour, Bruno. Science in Action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society

All things influencing one another as the jewels of Indra's net reflect on one another endlessly.

— Flower Adornment Sutra

The gold-haired goddess

Raged at the girl’s success, struck through her loom,

Tore down the scenes of wayward joys in heaven,

And with her shuttle of Cytorian boxwood

Slashed the girl’s face three times and then once more.

Nor could Arachne take such punishment:

She'd rather hang herself than bow her head,

And with a twist of rope around her neck

She swung, and Pallas with a twinge of mercy

Lifted her up to say, “So you shall live,

Bad girl, to swing, to live now and forever,

Even to the last hanging creature of your kind.”

And as she turned away she sprayed her features

With droppings from dark herbs of Hecate,

Hair, ears, and nose fell off, the head diminished,

The body shrivelled, and her quick long fingers

Grew to Its Sides With which she crept abroad—

All else was belly, and the girl a spider,

The tenuous weaver of an ancient craft.

— Ovid. The Metamorphoses. Trans. Horace Gregory.