PHXonFire's Aten Lotus Compass Geocoin
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Owner:
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PHXonFire
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Released:
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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Origin:
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Arizona, United States
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The mission of the Aten Lotus Compass Geocoin is to travel from cache to cache without getting lost. This coin needs to hit as many countries as possible and would like to venture to Egypt. Once it reaches a cache near the great pyramids in Egypt, contact the owner for further instructions..... Otherwise keep the coin moving along. DO NOT KEEP ME. YOU MUST PLACE ME WITHIN 4 WEEKS OF FINDING ME. If you cannot do this, please put me back!!!!!
The inspiration for this coin comes from the glorious Middle- and New Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt. Lotus buds and flowers (Nymphaea caerulea), symbols of creation & rebirth, are used to create a compass rose around the central disk of the sun. The directions are represented in four forms of text: hieroglyphs, Gardnerian transliteration, English, and an approximation of how the word might be pronounced (based on the study of both Middle Egyptian and its still-extant descendant, Coptic). South is at the top, as it was represented in Egyptian art (and, in fact, the Egyptian word for "south" also means "up"). On the reverse, the classic representation of Aten (the sun disk, represented in the way made very famous by the artisans of the Amarna period) is, of course, geocaching, as any self-respecting sun deity with eons of time on its many, many hands would probably be doing. Aten has found an ammo can and is signing the log and -- what's that? A bug is escaping!
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