GC3B71RAphrodite (A Greek Miniseries)
Type: Traditional
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By: TotallyAwesomeSocks@
| Hide Date: 01/20/2012
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N38° 12.971 W104° 32.440 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Part of a small series of caches pertaining to Greek Mythology. I hope you enjoy learning about these times as much as I do!
At no time will you have to cross a fence.
Congrats to Cx4 for the nighttime FTF!In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture. According to Hesiod, she was born when Uranus (the father of the gods) was castrated by his son Cronus. Cronus threw the severed genitals into the ocean which began to churn and foam about them. From the aphros ("sea foam") arose Aphrodite, and the sea carried her to either Cyprus or Cythera. Hence she is often referred to as Kypris and Cytherea. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus and Dione.
After her birth, Zeus was afraid that the gods would fight over Aphrodite's hand in marriage so he married her off to the smith god Hephaestus, the steadiest of the gods. He could hardly believe his good luck and used all his skills to make the most lavish jewels for her. He made her a girdle of finely wrought gold and wove magic into the filigree work. That was not very wise of him, for when she wore her magic girdle no one could resist her, and she was all too irresistible already. She loved gaiety and glamour and was not at all pleased at being the wife of sooty, hard-working Hephaestus.
Aphrodite loved and was loved by many gods and mortals. Among her mortal lovers, the most famous was perhaps Adonis. Some of her sons are Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios and Aeneas (with her Trojan lover Anchises). She is accompanied by the Graces.
Her festival is the Aphrodisiac which was celebrated in various centers of Greece and especially in Athens and Corinth. Her priestesses were not prostitutes but women who represented the goddess and sexual intercourse with them was considered just one of the methods of worship. Aphrodite was originally an old-Asian goddess, similar to the Mesopotamian Ishtar and the Syro-Palestinian goddess Ashtart. Her attributes are a.o. the dolphin, the dove, the swan, the pomegranate and the lime tree.
In Roman mythology Venus is the goddess of love and beauty and Cupid is love's messenger.
04/19/2019 By cmk180 It was under rocks and it was an army guy thank you
03/31/2019 By DustyKat Wonderful parking so close. Ghanks
02/17/2019 By JenR_5186 Fun find!! Log was wet. Replaced with new paper and baggie JR & FQ
02/09/2019 By motwenty Replaced as seemed to be muddled
07/15/2018 By SeekDaCache Once we learned about the Hidden Creature Challenge we knew we would have to travel in order to complete the challenge. We simply did not have one hundred caches within 40 miles to be able to log. Since we had not been in the Pueblo area for years we decided to cache our way to and then in the area.
Our second day of caching in and around the Pueblo area before heading home, included more maintenance on 10 more caches. We replaced caches, logs and containers on ignored caches by the owners. We had completed the Hidden Creature Challenge yesterday but enjoyed the new area while adding to our numbers. Searched for a couple of minutes and seeing all of the new guardrail at GZ we placed a new container with log to keep it going. SL,TFTC
Thank you TotallyAwesomeSocks for placing this cache for our enjoyment.
04/15/2018 By Codyandlyssa Either coordinates or wrong or could be gone due to construction on that side of the road
04/06/2018 By Eljordino69 Nice ride out in the county and found Aphrodite! Its crazy how that spot is even possible
02/06/2018 By Parentsof4Ks On vacation from northern Iowa, staying with daughter, Gnome-Goddess, in Pueblo. Caching Pueblo area today. Daughter has a meeting, so we are grabbing a few caches she already has gotten. Signing as Parentsof4ks or pof4ks or p4k. Tftc
Aphrodite (A Greek Miniseries)
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