Where: VFW Post #5727
When: January 12 @ 1830-1930
Who: Dedicated night cachers and wild men of the world
What: A Celebration of Wild Men and Beer with flashlights
Why: To enjoy a pint of beer and swap geocaching stories while celebrating Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day and Night Caching
How: Car, snowmobile, chariot, or dog sled
This is the approximate feast day of Dionysus and the birthday of Jack London. What better way to celebrate than to swap some wild days of caching and adventures in the woods looking for tupperware.
There is a night cache in town for those that would like to attempt it after the event.
Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500—1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. In some cults, he arrives from the east, as an Asiatic foreigner; in others, from Ethiopia in the South. He is a god of epiphany, "the god that comes," and his "foreignness" as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults. He is a major, popular figure of Greek mythology and religion, and is included in some lists of the twelve Olympians. Dionysus was the last god to be accepted into Mt. Olympus. He was the youngest and the only one to have a mortal mother. His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theatre. He is an example of a dying god.
