the tarantula , the trickster character , spun a black cord and , attaching it to the ball , crawled away fast to the east , pulling on the cord with all his strength .. This sentence is hard to understand. A simpler version with equivalent meaning is the following:
the tarantula is the trickster character . it spun a black cord . while attaching it to the ball , it crawled away fast to the east . it continued pulling on the cord with all his strength .