Aphrodite: Goddess of Love Letterbox Hybrid
Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
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Welcome to "Aphrodite: Goddess of Love" the thirteenth and final Letterbox Hybrid in our series based on the Twelve Olympians.
This letter box has been placed in south Moorhead with the permission of management. The stamp with the logbook is not a trade item, it is for stamping personal logbooks. Due to cold weather this letterbox does not hold an ink pad or a pen, be sure to bring your own.
Thirteen of twelve might sound a bit odd, but when the Greeks spoke of their pantheon sometimes they included Hestia in the count of the Twelve Olympians and sometimes it was Dionysus; ergo, thirteen of twelve.
There are two ways to find a Letterbox hybrid cache. The first is to follow directions that may include compass headings, landmarks, or even a story or poem. The second is to use a GPSr to go to the listed coords. To find this Letterbox, without using a GPSr, geocachers and letterboxers can go to the northwest corner of the intersection of 12th Street and First Avenue North, then walk to the flag pole.
At the flag pole think about the two things in all three of the quotes below. One of the things is for Aphrodite, one of those things is what you are looking for.
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
― Joan Crawford
"If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours."
― Truman Capote
"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."
― Mother Teresa
APHRODITE was the great Olympian goddess of beauty, love, pleasure and procreation. She was depicted as a beautiful woman usually accompanied by the winged godling Eros (Love). Her attributes included a dove, apple, scallop shell and mirror. In classical sculpture and fresco she was often depicted nude.
Some of the more famous myths featuring the goddess include:--
♥ Her birth from the sea foam;
♥ Her adulterous affair with the god Ares;
♥ Her love for Adonis, a handsome Cypriot youth who was tragically killed by a boar;
♥ Her love for Ankhises, a shepherd-prince;
♥ The judgement of Paris in which the goddess was awarded the prize of the golden apple in return for
promising Paris Helene in marriage;
♥ The Trojan War in which she supported her favourites Paris and Aeneas and was wounded in the fighting;
♥ The race of Hippomenes for Atalanta, which was won with the help of the goddess and her golden apples;
♥ The death of Hippolytos, who was destroyed by the goddess for scorning her worship;
♥ The statue of Pygmalion which was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to his prayers;
♥ The persecution of Psykhe, the maiden loved by the goddess' son Eros.
Congratulations to jugglerjon for getting the FTF!
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