Artemis: Goddess of Hunting and the Wilderness Letterbox Hybrid
Artemis: Goddess of Hunting and the Wilderness
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This Letterbox Hybrid is in south Moorhead and has been placed with permission. 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 go to the listed parking area and look for three trees of two different types that are near each other. Some of the tales of Artemis speak of a group of young women or nymphs that traveled and hunted with the goddess. Artemis would have stood out as different in the group, just as the tree with the cache stands out from the trees it stands with.
Once the container holding the cache is found it should be easy enough to open it. Nothing will need to be forced, just a little bit of pulling will free the door.
These trees use to stand in someones front yard, but this and other properties have been bought out and the houses taken away to make room for the nearby dike. The returning of the yard to a more natural state would appeal to a hunting and wilderness goddess, making this a nice place for this part of our Greek Gods and Goddesses Letterbox hybrid series.
In ancient art Artemis was usually depicted as a girl dressed in a short knee-length chiton and equipped with a hunting bow and quiver of arrows.
Some of the best known myths featuring the goddess include:--
~ Her birth, immediately following which she assisted her mother in the birth of her twin brother Apollon;
~ The Trojan War where she was beaten by Hera in an angry contest of the gods;
~ The hunter Aktaion who encountered the goddess whilst she was bathing and was turned into a stag;
~ The Aloadai giants who attempted to storm Olympos but were tricked by Artemis into killing each other;
~ The sacrifice of Iphigeneia whom King Agamemnon offered to her for the passage of the Greek fleet to Troy;
~ The giant Orion, a close companion of the goddess, who was slain by the goddess or her jealous brother;
~ The Kalydonian boar sent by Artemis to ravage Kaldyon;
~ The nymph Kallisto, a companion of Artemis, who was seduced by Zeus in the guise of the goddess.
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