Arachne Traditional Cache
Hidden : 9/9/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Quick road side.

Arachne

There is a Greek myth about a country girl named Arachne. She was a wonderful spinner of threads. As the myth goes, the Greek goddess Athena was very jealous of Arachne. Arachne bragged that she was a much more talented weaver than Athena, and challenged the goddess to a weaving contest. Arachne was quite arrogant and again insulted the goddess by weaving pictures that made the gods (titans) look bad. Athena became so angry that she turned Arachne into a spider and forced her to live the rest of her life weaving webs.

Another ending to this story is that Athena tore up all Arachne’s beautiful weaving and the distraught Arachne hung herself. Athena felt so bad for her that she turned Arachne into a spider and vowed that all her relatives, forevermore, would be weavers of beautiful webs.


Did you know:

The largest spider in the world is the Giant Bird-eating spider. One that was found had a leg span of 28 cm (11 inches)!

The smallest spider is the Patu Marplesi. You could fit 10 of them on the end of a pencil.

The kindest and most intelligent spider, of course, would have to be Charlotte, from the book Charlotte’s Web, since she could not only spell but saves the pig, Wilbur’s, life! (hee hee)

Spider silk is possibly the strongest material in the world! Scientists believe that if they gathered the same weight of spider web as a piece of steel, the web would be much stronger than the steel! As hard as scientists try, they cannot match or copy the silk.


This is a quick roadside cache. Please be aware of the Aracne and off course the usual muggles.



                 Happy Hunting!


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FTF Honours
**** Wildbirds & Toebroodjieblikkie / Trapsuutjie ****

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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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