Hestia: Goddess of the Home & Hearth Letterbox Hybrid
m&m O: This container has had a good run but needs to be retired. We have also been given permission for a large hide and we are changing the type of geocache that will be here.
Hestia: Goddess of the Home & Hearth
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This cache is in north Moorhead and has been placed on asphalt with permission.
As this is a Letterbox Hybrid it can be found in two ways. Searchers can use their GPSr and it will lead the way, the container is at the posted coordinates; or you can go the Letterbox route, making use of a compass and orienteering skills or figuring out clues in a poem. Along with the log book is a stamp for letterboxers to stamp their books. It is not a trade item.
To find this Letter Box Hybrid you will need to go to the parking lot that is on the southeast corner of 11th Street and 3rd Avenue North in Moorhead. Once there you should ponder the last part of the last line of Robert Frost’s Mending Wall. The poem ends with "Good fences make good neighbors."
Or you can use the coords above with your GPSr, but who needs that when you have a poem in your heart and adventure on your mind?
HESTIA was the virgin goddess of the hearth (both private and municipal) and the home. As the goddess of the family hearth she also presided over the cooking of bread and the preparation of the family meal. Hestia was also the goddess of the sacrificial flame and received a share of every sacrifice to the gods. The cooking of the communal feast of sacrificial meat was naturally a part of her domain.
In myth Hestia was the first born child of Kronos and Rhea who was swallowed by her father at birth. Zeus later forced the old Titan to disgorge Hestia and her siblings. As the first to be swallowed she was also the last to be disgorged, and so was named as both the eldest and youngest of the six Kronides. When the gods Apollon and Poseidon sought for her hand in marriage, Hestia refused and asked Zeus to let her remain an eternal virgin. He agreed and she took her place at his royal hearth.
Hestia was depicted in Athenian vase painting as a modestly veiled woman sometimes holding a flowered branch (of a chaste tree ?). In classical sculpture she was also veiled, with a kettle as her attribute.
Mythic lore from The Theoi Project: Guide to Greek Mythology.
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