Athena: Goddess of Wisdom Letterbox Hybrid
Athena: Goddess of Wisdom
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This Letterbox Hybrid has been placed in south Moorhead near a large parking lot, on the southwest corner of 11th St. and 5th Ave S. Permission to place the Letterbox has been given, but will not keep cachers from being given parking tickets, and they are good at that here. The lot is Permit Parking Only from 7:00am - 4:30pm, Monday thru Friday. There is no parking on 11th Street or 5th Ave. S.
As this is a Letterbox Hybrid it can be found with the coords listed above, or you can breakout your trusty compass. To Enlighten can be to give greater knowledge or understanding, such as can be found at colleges and universities or it can mean to literally shed light on something.
On the southwest corner of 11th St and 5th Ave S. is a large evergreen. Use the tree as a starting point and head to the nearest enlightened spot. Standing just north of the enlightened object and walking 46 feet on a baring of 348° will bring you to the hiding spot of this Letter Box Hybrid. The stamp with the logbook is not a trade item, it is for stamping your personal logbook.
ATHENE (or Athena) was the great Olympian goddess of wise counsel, war, the defence of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and other crafts. She was depicted crowned with a crested helm, armed with shield and spear, and wearing the snake-trimmed aigis cloak wrapped around her breast and arm, adorned with the monstrous head of the Gorgon.
The more famous myths featuring the goddess Athene include:--
Her birth from the head of Zeus, fully-grown and arrayed in arms;
Her contest with Poseidon for dominion of Athens in which she produced the first olive tree and he the first horse;
The War of the Giants in which she buried Enkelados beneath Mount Etna and made her aigis from the skin of Pallas;
The attempted rape of the goddess by Hephaistos, who spilled his seed upon the earth and produced Erikhthonios, who she then adopted as her own;
The assisting of Perseus in his quest to slay the Gorgon and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece;
The assisting of Herakles with his twelve labours;
The weaving contest with Arakhne who was transformed by the goddess into a spider;
The blinding of Teiresias for viewing her naked in the bath;
The Judgement of Paris in which she competed with Hera and Aphrodite for the prize of the golden apple;
The Trojan War where she sided with the Greeks in battle, but attacked their ships with a storm when they failed to punish Oilean Ajax for violating her Trojan shrine.
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