Hephaestus: God of Fire and Metalworking, Part 2 Letterbox Hybrid
Hephaestus: God of Fire and Metalworking, Part 2
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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.
As this is a Letterbox Hybrid it can be found with the coords listed above, or you can get in touch with the poet within. Poetry it is; Head to the parking coordinates shown below and remember the words of Joyce Kilmer, I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ~ Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," 1914 ~ Contemplating the poem should help you in finding the cache. If the poem does not help; well, maybe that hint (and this one) is for the birds. 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.
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