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Retha's Labyrinth Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

FireflyAfrica: Adopted this cache from Seekoei but unable to change it to a Traditional and the difficulty rating was putting people off. Decided to rather archive to allow for a series to be created along the trail.

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Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is not at the listed coordinates!!! It is however in the vicinity of the coordinates. The difficulty is 5 due to the fact that it is within a 30 meter radius of the Labyrinth. Like a labyrinth you need to follow the path and in order to find the cache all you have to look for is the little red frog that looks after the cache. Please enjoy this wonderful garden and explore all the little things to see.


This lovely trail that starts here is named after a lady whose name was Retha , she had a chain saw and with a few helpers, she cut a path behind some of the houses and filled it with eclectic findings to create a lovely distraction for walkers. Another lady designed the labyrinth.

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, possibly the building complex at Knossos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a mythical creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had so cunningly made the Labyrinth that he could barely escape it after he built it. Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a skein of thread, literally the "clew", or "clue", so he could find his way out again.

In colloquial English, labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze, but many contemporary scholars observe a distinction between the two: maze refers to a complex branching (multicursal) puzzle with choices of path and direction; while a single-path (unicursal) labyrinth has only a single, non-branching path, which leads to the center. A labyrinth in this sense has an unambiguous route to the center and back and is not designed to be difficult to navigate.

Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit multicursal patterns, the unicursal seven-course "Classical" design became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC, and became widely used to represent the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze. Even as the designs became more elaborate, visual depictions of the Labyrinth from Roman times until the Renaissance are almost invariably unicursal. Branching mazes were reintroduced only when garden mazes became popular during the Renaissance.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur yvggyr erq sebt xrrcf vg fnsr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)