Hephaestus: God of Fire and Metalworking Letterbox Hybrid
m&m O: This Letterbox is being archived at the request of the property owner.
But don't worry, even if you have not found it yet; the stamp will be returning in a new container, at a new location.
Hephaestus: God of Fire and Metalworking
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This Letterbox Hybrid is on private property in south Fargo and has been placed with the permission of the owners. The stamp with the logbook is not a trade item, it is for stamping your personal logbook. With the winters what they are in this neck of the woods I decided not to put an ink pad in the Letterbox, please bring your own if you want to do some stamping.
This is a residential location, and the owners ask that we not search with flashlights at night. Thank you for your consideration.
As this is a Letterbox Hybrid it can be found with the coords listed above, or you can breakout your trusty compass. Nope, no compass for this one, let's see how folks are with following directions.
Here they are;
Head to 4824 S. 12th St. and stand next to the mailbox (the symbol for a Letterbox Hybrid is an envelope, so this seems like a good place to start). Now look for a sign from the gods, or a sign that has flames and the name Mulciber. Mulciber, Vulcan, Hephaistos; Greek or Roman; different names but the same basic idea. You say "Potato" I say "Spud".
When you find the sign you will have found the building the container is on/attached to/connected with; please don't go on top of the building, it's not that kind of 'on'. Head to the northwest corned and look for symbol that would be used by a blacksmith. What you seek lies within.
HEPHAISTOS was the great Olympian god of fire, metalworking, stonemasonry and the art of sculpture. He was usually depicted as a bearded man holding hammer and tongs--the tools of a smith--and riding a donkey.
Some of the more famous myths featuring the god include:--
His fall from Olympus in which he was cast away by Hera at birth;
The trapping of Hera in a cursed throne and his return to Olympus;
The adultery of his wife Aphrodite who was trapped with Ares in a golden net;
The crafting of Pandora, the first woman, at the command of Zeus;
The attempted rape of Athena which resulted in the impregnation of Earth and the birth of Erikhthonios;
The crafting of the cursed necklace of Harmonia which doomed her descendants to a cycle of tragedy;
The Trojan War in which he fought the river-god Skamandros with fire;
The crafting of the armor of Achilles at the request of the hero's mother Thetis.
Special thanks to misekto, who agreed to relocate one of the caches in the Bike Path series to make room for this Letterbox. σας ευχαριστώ
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