Hera: Queen of the gods Letterbox Hybrid
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This Letterbox Hybrid is in south Fargo and has been placed with the permission of the manager. 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 we decided not to put an ink pad in the Letterbox, please bring your own if you want to do some stamping.
As this is a Letterbox Hybrid it can be found with the coords listed above, or you can breakout your trusty compass and follow these directions; 1) head to 3231 11th St. S. 2) go to the inside corner of the sidewalk northeast of the big red heart 3) travel to the smaller red item that can be found on a heading of 158° from your sidewalk location 4) from the location of the smaller red item seek enlightenment at 150° 5) from the place of enlightenment the hiding place of this Letterbox Hybrid is only 31' 9" away on a heading of 36° Following these few simple directions will bring you to where the Letterbox is housed. Please be sure to check high and low for muggles who might be watching. HERA was the Olympian queen of the gods and the goddess of women and marriage. She was also a goddess of the sky and starry heavens. Hera was usually depicted as a beautiful woman wearing a crown and holding a royal, lotus-tipped staff. Sometimes she held a royal lion or had a cuckoo or hawk as her familiar. Hera's symbol were the diadem, the scepter and the pomegranate, a symbol of fertility. Her flower was the lily and her sacred animals were the peacock and the cow. Some of the more famous myths featuring the goddess include:-- ◾Her marriage to Zeus and her earlier seduction by the god in the guise of a cuckoo bird; ◾The birth of Hephaistos who she produced alone and cast from heaven because he was crippled; ◾Her persecution of the consorts of Zeus, especially Leto, Semele and Alkmene; ◾Her persecution of Herakles and Dionysos, the favourite bastard sons of Zeus; ◾The punishment of Ixion, who was chained to a fiery wheel for attempting to violate the goddess; ◾The assisting of the Argonauts in their quest for the golden fleece, their leader Jason being one of her favourites; ◾The judgement of Paris, in which she competed against Aphrodite and Athene for the prize of the golden apple; ◾The Trojan War, in which she assisted the Greeks. P.S. Remember the Golden Apple from up above? Well, after the heads-up from ChaosWarning about the damaged container I headed over and found that part of the container was missing, as was the cache; log, stamp and all. I fixed the container, but rather then carve another peacock stamp I have added an apple stamp to the letterbox. Hopefully this one will last longer than the two years the first stamp was in the cache.
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