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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 4/15/2023 tornalle took it to Megality Holic - Standing Stones in Slovakia Trnavský kraj, Slovakia - 749.05 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 4/14/2023 tornalle took it to Have a break, have a cache! Niederösterreich, Austria - 784.87 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 4/14/2023 tornalle took it to Arlanda Traveller Bugs' Hotel Stockholm, Sweden - 22.52 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 4/8/2023 tornalle took it to Lovisa Ulrika Stockholm, Sweden - 5,329.56 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 4/8/2023 tornalle took it to Stig-Aron#3 - Opera Stockholm, Sweden - 5,329.05 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 4/1/2023 tornalle retrieved it from Team 2160's TB Hotel @ River Islands: Free Wi-fi! California   Visit Log

    Moving on

    Dropped Off 3/8/2023 MCL1080 placed it in Team 2160's TB Hotel @ River Islands: Free Wi-fi! California - 55.03 miles  Visit Log
    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 3/8/2023 MCL1080 grabbed it   Visit Log

    Found this in my tb hotel. Grabbing it to fix it's location.

    Dropped Off 12/27/2022 A Team Vallejo placed it in A F.R.O.G.S. Community Celebration Event California - 28.23 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 12/26/2022 A Team Vallejo took it to Rio Vista Cemetery walk California - 33.69 miles  Visit Log
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