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Travel Bug Dog Tag Gordian Knot - Green

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Released:
Monday, June 2, 2014
Origin:
Washington, United States
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The Phrygians were without a king, but an oracle at Telmissus (the ancient capital of Lycia) decreed that the next man to enter the city driving an ox-cart should become their king. A peasant farmer named Gordias drove into town on an ox-cart and was immediately declared king. Out of gratitude, his son Midas dedicated the ox-cart to the Phrygian god Sabazios (whom the Greeks identified with Zeus) and tied it to a post with an intricate knot of cornel bark. The knot was later described by Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus as comprising "several knots all so tightly entangled that it was impossible to see how they were fastened".

The ox-cart still stood in the palace of the former kings of Phrygia at Gordium in the fourth century BC when Alexander arrived, at which point Phrygia had been reduced to a satrapy, or province, of the Persian Empire. An oracle had declared that any man who could unravel its elaborate knots was destined to become ruler of all of Asia. Alexander wanted to untie the knot but struggled to do so without success. He then reasoned that it would make no difference how the knot was loosed, so he drew his sword and sliced it in half with a single stroke. In an alternative version of the story, Alexander loosed the knot by pulling the linchpin from the yoke.

Alexander later went on to conquer Asia as far as the Indus and the Oxus, thus fulfilling the prophecy.

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Tracking History (32731.8mi) View Map

Dropped Off 9/21/2021 travelinwynns placed it in Yesterday's Perrydise Georgia - 299.36 miles  Visit Log

Dropped in Perry, GA

Retrieve It from a Cache 8/28/2021 travelinwynns retrieved it from TeamBulldawg's Travel Bug Hotel Georgia   Visit Log

Leaving Valdosta, GA!

Dropped Off 8/14/2021 407Youngs placed it in TeamBulldawg's Travel Bug Hotel Georgia - 190.09 miles  Visit Log

Dropping this one off at a nice TB hotel in Georgia. Safe travels!

Retrieve It from a Cache 8/14/2021 407Youngs retrieved it from Too easy to get stumped Florida   Visit Log

Heading to North Georgia for a family trip and decided to move this TB along since it has been siting here her for a while.

Dropped Off 5/30/2021 407Youngs placed it in Too easy to get stumped Florida - 18.08 miles  Visit Log

Dropping of this little guy in a fun cache in Oviedo Florida for the next cacher to move along.

Retrieve It from a Cache 5/21/2021 407Youngs retrieved it from Dolphins Trivia Florida   Visit Log

Found this Trackable in this rather lonely cache earlier and forgot to log that we grabbed it. We’ll be sure to find it a new home soon!

Dropped Off 8/4/2020 lynnray placed it in Dolphins Trivia Florida - 10.16 miles  Visit Log

Time to travel, please log keep safe . I hope you wont be here too long.

Retrieve It from a Cache 8/4/2020 lynnray retrieved it from Ferncreek's Finest 5 Star Travel Bug Hotel Florida   Visit Log

time to travel to new places.

  • visiting Ferncreeks Finest 5 Star Travelbug Hotel
Discovered It 7/25/2020 lynnray discovered it Florida   Visit Log

Discovered in Ferncreeks Finest 5 Star Travelbug Hotel, a photo for owner.

  • visiting Ferncreeks Finest 5 Star Travelbug Hotel
Dropped Off 7/19/2020 aerobear placed it in Ferncreek's Finest 5 Star Travel Bug Hotel Florida - 4,635.59 miles  Visit Log

Dropping the TB. Here the adventures will continue.

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