Alchemy noun al·che·my \ˈal-kə-mē\
A medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to discover the means to trans mutate base metals into gold, a universal cure for disease, and the a means of indefinitely prolonging life.
Water is one of the four basic elements of air, earth, fire, and water. Water was one of many archai proposed by the Pre-socratics, most of whom tried to reduce all things to a single substance. However, Empedocles of Acragas (c. 495 – c. 435 BC) selected four archai for his four roots: air, fire, water and earth. Empedocles roots became the four classical elements of Greek philosophy. Plato (427–347 BC) took over the four elements of Empedocles. In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with water is the icosahedron which is formed from twenty equilateral triangles. This makes water the element with the greatest number of sides, which Plato regarded as appropriate because water flows out of one's hand when picked up, as if it is made of tiny little balls.
Since Water is one of the five basic elements of alchemy (earth, fire, water, air, and aether), I made it one of the four basic geocaches in my Alchemy series. Enjoy and Good Hunting!
Bonus! I have created a home-made geocoin prize to cache hunters who find all five geocaches representing the five basic elements of alchemy: earth, fire, water, air, and aether
This is a home-made geocoin made from cast resin and hand painted. To earn one: 1) Find and sign the logs for the five geocaches listed above; 2) Enter the correct coordinates for Aether in the geochecker +; and 3) Send the geocoin passphrase the Geochecker+ will give you to me via Geocaching.com's message service. I'll verify you have found and logged a find on all five and send a prize geocoin to you.
NOTE: This prize geocoin is optional. All you need to do to log a find is find and sign the log. This is merely a bonus.