Arachne's Daughter, Arafrancia Traditional Cache
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Arachne's Daughter, Arafrancia
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Handicachable park and grab. Park on side road, where there is room for two or three cars. Cache is well away from the highway, and there is no need to approach or cross the highway.
Another in my "Arachne" series.
Arachne was a girl who lived in Greece a long time ago. She was a very good weaver and spinner. She wove all sorts of beautiful pictures into her cloth, and people came from all around to see her beautiful cloth.
But Arachne was arrogant. She began telling people she was better at spinning and weaving than the goddess Athena was. Athena was also known as a good spinner and weaver.
Athena was mad that Arachne would say that, and she challenged Arachne to a weaving contest. The two of them set up their looms in the same room, and they wove from early in the morning until it got too dark to see. They compared what they had done.
Athena had woven a beautiful cloth showing the gods and goddesses sitting together on Mt. Olympus and doing good deeds for people. But Arachne thought she was so smart, she wove a cloth making fun of the gods and goddesses, showing them getting drunk and falling down and making a mess of things. Still it was clearly better weaving than Athena had done.
When Athena saw it she was even more angry than she had been before. Even though Arachne's weaving was better, Athena didn't care. She pointed her finger at Arachne and suddenly Arachne's nose and ears shrank up, her hair all fell out, her arms and legs got long and skinny, and her whole body shrank until she was just a little tiny spider (Arachne means spider in Greek). "You want to spin," cried Athena, go ahead and spin!"
Arachne and her descendants have been spinning ever since.
Her daughter Arafrancia lives near the turnoff to the Trout Creek WMA.
Arafrancia prefers to stay hidden, but she is easily persuaded to show her face when found by her geocaching friends. Her hiding spot is in the obvious structure.
Arafrancia is a micro-sized girl on the outside, but the log is nano-sized. You might need tweezers or similar.
Enjoy!
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Fur unf na "nggenpgvir" crefbanyvgl.