Greek Gods Geocoin - Cybele
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Owner:
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Wombatwandering
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Released:
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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Origin:
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London, United Kingdom
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In Films were made here ........ GC and TB Hotel
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To travel to Turkey.
No need to visit the Trackable into every cache you go to, it just makes the map hard to read. Sorry it's just a copy but too many geocoins get stolen these days.
This is version #2. Version #1 was selfishly stolen by kerriet after travelling 2118.2km.
A laminated copy of the original Geocoin. It's attached to a homemade blue travel tag and a rubber 'Life's a Trip' tag.
Cybele: #5 of 12 in the series
The Goddess Cybele is probably the most mysterious goddess in the Greek pantheon. She arrives into the pantheon from foreign lands of unknown origin on a lion-drawn chariot. Her entourage bears grapes and wine in great urns to the sound of a wild beating and primal music. She is the goddess of earth, stone, caves and mysterious hidden places. She inspires wild new imaginings in the arts, architecture and particularly workings of stone and earth such as great walls and catacombs. To a smaller degree she is also goddess of animals that are secretive in nature and all lions. She is the wild goddess of the dark, the hidden passages, the caverns and caves both natural and man-made, wines, libations, wild music and fantastic imaginations. She inspires us to think outside the box and explore hidden places and nature's reclusive treasures.
Coins measure approximately 1.75 inches in diameter. They are trackable at Geocaching.com
Cybele is an Anatolian mother goddess; she has a possible precursor in the earliest neolithic at Çatalhöyük, where the statue of a pregnant, seated goddess was found in a granary. She is Phrygia's only known goddess, and was probably its state deity. Her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of Asia Minor and spread to mainland Greece and its more distant western colonies around the 6th century BCE.
In Greece, Cybele met with a mixed reception. She was partially assimilated to aspects of the Earth-goddess Gaia, her Minoan equivalent Rhea, and the Harvest-Mother goddess Demeter. Some city-states, notably Athens, evoked her as a protector, but her most celebrated Greek rites and processions show her as an essentially foreign, exotic mystery-goddess who arrives in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment of wild music, wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following. Uniquely in Greek religion, she had a eunuch mendicant priesthood. Many of her Greek cults included rites to a divine Phrygian castrate shepherd-consort Attis, who was probably a Greek invention. In Greece, Cybele is associated with mountains, town and city walls, fertile nature, and wild animals, especially lions.
Status Update
September 2021. 2118.2km. #1 Stolen Caernarfon, Wales
September 2024. 2614.9km #2 London, England
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VR7 placed it in Films were made here ........ GC and TB Hotel
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Southern England, United Kingdom
- 25.51 miles
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Dropped off here today to help it travel on 🙂
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VR7 took it to Cunning Cachers January 2025
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Southern England, United Kingdom
- 3.61 miles
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VR7 took it to University Challenge (Reading, Berks) - revisited
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Southern England, United Kingdom
- 6.66 miles
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VR7 took it to Post Post RG27 116
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Southern England, United Kingdom
- .12 miles
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VR7 took it to HAMPSHIRE DRIVE BYS #26
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Southern England, United Kingdom
- 1.64 miles
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VR7 took it to Riseley Wander #4
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Southern England, United Kingdom
- 23.41 miles
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VR7 took it to Lost Pubs #4 - The Prince Albert
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South East England, United Kingdom
- .6 miles
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VR7 took it to Lost Pubs #1 and #2
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South East England, United Kingdom
- .68 miles
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VR7 took it to BARKing Mad!
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South East England, United Kingdom
- .66 miles
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VR7 took it to Easypeasey
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South East England, United Kingdom
- .85 miles
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