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17 Dec 497 BC #Romans celebrated the first #Saturnalia, joyous #festival of #giftgiving and #oracle #roleplaying #games, the origin of many #Yule/#Christmas customs. In whatever way you celebrate the #festiveseason, may the love and light of #Antinous fill your heart!
Tonight's #Leo Third Quarter Moon is the #Bacchanalia moon of #Antinous It is ideal for #actors, #dancers, #buskers, #illusionists and #ecstatic #transformational #revelry and #alteredstates. (#Caravaggio is a saint of #Antinoos!) More: https://t.co/8vq4w5vcYS Art by @MJMcCorkle
In October, the month #Antinous died and became a god, we recall that #Antinoos was initiated into the #Orphic #Mysteries of death. You are #Orpheus the musician, dancer, beast tamer. You die & enter #Hades. You are reborn as the #sun. Art: @MJMcCorkle: https://t.co/9L8xo1EFG8
Tonight's #Pisces #FullMoon is the #homoerotic #HOMOTHEOSIS Moon of #Antinous #MoonMagic. Take the plunge yourself into the depths of #LGBT #spirituality. Here's how: https://t.co/KnBUYXfHA6 Art by @MJMcCorkle.
As the #Sun enters #Aquarius sign of the #Cupbearer we note that #Antinous was called the new #Ganymede because both were swept aloft by an #eagle: #Zeus and #Hadrian as the imperial #Roman #eagle. Art #MartyMcCorkle @MJMcCorkle: https://t.co/ovLKAflcg4
#ArthurCClarke: “I don’t believe in #astrology. I’m a #Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” #Chiron #centaur art by @FelixdEon
On 28 October 20,000 modern worshipers around the world observe the anniversary of the death of #Antinous in Oct 130 AD. Near #Hermopolis #Egypt he plunged into the #Nile. His lover, grieving Emperor #Hadrian proclaimed him a god, the last Classical deity: https://t.co/pbx1ZK7XhN
5 Aug Feast of #Hygeia/#Salus daughter of #Aesculapius. Goddess of cleanliness, not only bodily, but also environmentally. Depicted with a #serpent which #Hygiea feeds from a bowl or cup. Worshipers offer locks of hair to #Hygieia seeking her blessing.
"Offerings for #Antinous" by one of our favorite artists, @FelixdEon ... check out his website (https://t.co/aDkiZyMs1a ) to order your own personal gay art (also ceramics!) from him and tell him con amor y besitos from #Antinoos the #GayGod.
30 March is the ancient #Armenian feast of the #haralez #ghostdogs who lick dead warriors back to life. #Antinous probably knew of the #Bithynia/#Armenia #Haralez #Dogs, spirits called the "perpetual #lickers", who miraculously revived slain #soldiers.