The Torment of Tantalus Traditional Cache
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A match stick container, hidden in a different way.
Tantalus was initially known for having been welcomed to Zeus' table in Olympus, like Ixion. There he is said to have misbehaved and stolen ambrosia and nectar to bring it back to his people, and revealed the secrets of the gods.
Tantalus's punishment for his act, now a proverbial term for temptation without satisfaction (the source of the English word tantalize), was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. Either he was afraid of drowning or that whenever he bent down to get a drink, the water receded before he could get any. Over his head towers a threatening stone like the one that Sisyphus is punished to roll up a hill. This fate has cursed him with eternal deprivation of nourishment.
The name "Tantalus" is the origin of the English verb "to tantalize". The underlying idea is that when someone is tantalized, that person goes through the same experience as Tantalus: something desirable is always just out of that person's reach.
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Ernq gur fgbel bs Gnagnyhf... V qvq yrnir fbzrguvat fcrpvny ng TM gb uryc ergevrivat gur pnpur. V jnf bevtvanyyl tbvat gb pnyy vg "Ubj qb lbh zrnfher hc?" Bapr lbh svaq vg, gur bevtvany gvgyr jvyy znxr frafr.
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