Hermes Traditional Cache
SirCrab: Unfortunately the owner did not respond to the previous note so this is being archived. Should the owner decide to repair/replace this and have it unarchived, it can be done as long as it still conforms to the guidelines.
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SirCrab
Volunteer Cache Reviewer
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A regular size lock n lock container hidden in a common manner.
This cache is part of a series named after various Greek and Roman
deities. In the ancient mythology, each god had a distict role and
personality. Each personality also represents a particular part of
the geocaching experience. Hermes was the god of travel. This
series of caches in Cromwell Valley Park allows you travel like an
ancient Greek or Roman - on foot. The cache is hidden near the
major intersection in the park - several trails pass within a short
hike of ground zero. The fleet of foot will get the FTF on this
simple cache. Hermes, the herald of the Olympian gods, is the son
of Zeus and the nymph Maia, daughter of Atlas and one of the
Pleiades. Hermes is the god of shepherds, land travel, merchants,
weights and measures, oratory, literature, athletics and thieves,
and known for his cunning and shrewdness. Most importantly, he is
the messenger of the gods. It was Hermes who liberated Io, the
lover of Zeus, from the hundred-eyed giant Argus, who had been
ordered by Hera, the jealous wife of Zeus, to watch over her.
Hermes charmed the giant with his flute, and while Argos slept
Hermes cut off his head and released Io. Hera, as a gesture of
thanks to her loyal servant, scattered the hundred eyes of Argos
over the tail of a peacock (Heras' sacred bird). Hermes also used
his ingenuity and abilities to persuade the nymph Calypso to
release Odysseus, the wandering hero, from her charms. She had kept
Odysseus captive, after he was shipwrecked on her island Ogygia,
promising him immortality if he married her, but Zeus sent Hermes
to release Odysseus. Legend says that Calypso died of grief when
Odysseus sailed away. Hermes also saved Odysseus and his men from
being transformed into pigs by the goddess and sorceress Circe. He
gave them a herb which resisted the spell. Hermes also guided
Eurydice back down to the underworld after she had been allowed to
stay for one day on earth with her husband Orpheus. Known for his
swiftness and athleticism, Hermes was given credit for inventing
foot-racing and boxing. At Olympia a statue of him stood at the
entrance to the stadium and his statues where in every gymnasium
throughout Greece. Hermes was a popular subject for artists. Both
painted pottery and statuary show him in various forms, but the
most fashionable depicted him as a good-looking young man, with an
athletic body, and winged sandals and his heralds staff. His Roman
counterpart Mercury inherited his attributes, and there are many
Roman copies of Greek artistic creations of Hermes
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Tb 4 vg.