Labyrinth Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Mongo: [b][u][red]ARCHIVING CACHE[/b][/u][/red]

No response from cache owner.

While I feel that Geocaching.com should hold the location for you and block other cachers from entering the area around this cache for a reasonable amount of time I don’t think we can do so any longer. Therefore, I have archived this cache. If you haven’t done so already, please pick up any remaining cache bits as soon as possible.

When repairs to this cache are completed, and it is time to have it listed once again it will be no problem as long as it still meets the guidelines. Just drop me a note( by email at Mongo@geocachingadmin.com) and let me know the GC waypoint number of the cache or better yet, the URL of the cache page. You will still be able to access your cache page just as before by going to your “My Cache Page” and clicking the link of your cache.

I want to thank you for the time that you have taken to contribute to geocaching in the past and I am looking forward to seeing your cache up and running in the future.

Thanks for your understanding,
Mongo
Groundspeak Reviewer

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Hidden : 4/2/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Trillian enjoys the labyrinth and we hope you do, too!

Tucked away in a less used part of Columbia, a real treasure revealed itself to Trillian and I while visiting relatives. On a nearby corner, right by the streets, lay an area for serenity and quiet beauty. Dominating this area, a labyrinth awaits in silence.

Labyrinths have an ancient history dating back at least 4,000 years. For example, in Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a mythical creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it. Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a skein of thread, literally the "clew", or "clue", so he could find his way out again.

The labyrinth that you see here is modeled after the one laid into the floor of the cathedral at Charte, France, in 1201.

The full flowering of the medieval labyrinth, such as the one before you, came about from the twelfth through fourteenth centuries with the grand pavement labyrinths of the gothic cathedrals, notably Chartres, Reims and Amiens in northern France. These labyrinths may have originated as symbolic allusion to the Holy City; and some modern thinkers have theorized that prayers and devotions may have accompanied the perambulation of their intricate paths. Although some books suggest that the mazes on cathedral floors served as substitutes for pilgrimage paths, the earliest attested use of the phrase "chemin de Jerusalem" (path to Jerusalem) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and St. Omer. The accompanying ritual, supposedly involving pilgrims following the maze on their knees while praying, may have been practiced at Chartres during the 17th century.

The cathedral labyrinths are thought to be the inspiration for the many turf mazes in the UK, such as surviving ones at Wing, Hilton, Alkborough, and Saffron Walden.

No matter what meaning (or lack thereof) that this or any labyrinth holds for you, we do hope you enjoy this cache and the idyllic surroundings. You are looking for a micro cache container, so please bring your own writing instrument.

Cache on!

Additional Hints ()

Fvg naq zrqvgngr hcba vg.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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