Japan Geocoin Ho-oo

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Released:
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Origin:
Washington, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of cacherigel_lh.

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Current Goal

travel to reborn (rehabilitated) geo-caches (pictures would be cool) and lend some karma (for anti-muggling)...

About This Item

found in a reactivated cache...

The name of this one will be Ho-oo..


In Japan, as earlier in China, the mythical Phoenix (ho-oo) was adopted as a symbol of the imperial household, particularily the empress. This mythical bird represents fire, the sun, justice, obedience, and fidelity.

According to legend (mostly from China), the Ho-oo appears very rarely, and only to mark the beginning of a new era -- the birth of a virtuous ruler, for example (or perhaps the re-birth of a geo-cache [to borrow very liberally - and perhaps not altogether accurately]). In other traditions, the Ho-oo appears only in peaceful and prosperous times (nesting, it is said, in paulownia trees), and hides itself when there is trouble. As the herald of a new age, the Ho-Oo decends from heaven to earth to do good deeds, and then it returns to its celestial abode to await a new era. It is both a symbol of peace (when it appears) and a symbol of disharmony (when it disappears).

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    Tracking History (23952.3mi) View Map

    Visited 8/2/2023 kadeekes took it to La maison de St Nicolas Pays de la Loire, France   Visit Log
    Visited 8/2/2023 kadeekes took it to La maison de St Nicolas Pays de la Loire, France - 430.2 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 7/31/2023 kadeekes took it to Planner Challenge - Ik heb ze (bijna) allemaal Noord-Brabant, Netherlands - 35.99 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 7/28/2023 kadeekes took it to Onderwaterpark voor schone kunsten Zilvermeer Antwerpen, Belgium - 15.27 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 7/25/2023 kadeekes took it to Wandelen in de vallei van de Grote Nete I Antwerpen, Belgium   Visit Log
    Visited 7/25/2023 kadeekes took it to Wandelen in de vallei van de Grote Nete I Antwerpen, Belgium - 62.25 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 7/25/2023 kadeekes retrieved it from Wandelen in de vallei van de Grote Nete II Antwerpen, Belgium   Visit Log

    Back travelling....
    Dropped Off 6/30/2023 skuppens placed it in Wandelen in de vallei van de Grote Nete II Antwerpen, Belgium - 30.3 miles  Visit Log

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    Visited 6/23/2023 skuppens took it to 10 jaar Nighthawk **4** Limburg, Belgium - 91.51 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 6/4/2023 skuppens took it to Valkenswaard Malpie Noord-Brabant, Netherlands - 85.55 miles  Visit Log
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