🪷 The hidden love of #Hadrian and #Antinous, oil painting by Bruno Surdo, @brunoanthonysurdo via Instagram. 🪷

🪷 #Hadrian and #Antinous vase by Australian-British artist, writer and curator Andrew Nicholls in collaboration with Huang Fei. Visit the website: http://www.andrewnicholls.com.au/ 🪷

🪷Bust of Antinous from Patras, now at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, the city #Hadrian loved and which the Emperor and #Antinous visited during their fateful tour of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.🪷

🪷 On September 9th we honor #Asclepigenia a 5th Century follower of #Aesculapius in Athens who trained both men and women in the medical arts despite virulent Christian opposition. She was one of the last priestesses of the #Eleusinian Mysteries into which #Hadrian and #Antinous had been initiated. 🪷

🪷 29 Aug is the birthday of #Hathor, Egyptian goddess of home, love, beauty, motherhood. In 2017 archaeologists found a temple cornice stone at #Antinoopolis which mentions the deities Hathor and #Antinous, along with #Hadrian, Empress #Sabina and Egypt's intersex deity #Hapi.🪷

🪷 #Hadrian intended for #Antinous to be myriad deities, says modern-day Priest #Michaelus. If you understand #Dionysus, you understand #Antinoos. If you understand #Osiris, you begin to understand a bit more. Hadrian meant him to be the ultimate deity: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-four-layers-of-antinous-conclusion.html 🪷

🪷 #Hadrian intended for #Antinous to be myriad deities, says modern-day Priest #Michaelus. If you understand #Dionysus, you understand #Antinoos. If you understand #Osiris, you begin to understand a bit more. Hadrian meant him to be the ultimate deity: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-four-layers-of-antinous-conclusion.html 🪷

🪷 On 27 Aug the ancient #Egyptians celebrated the going forth of #Bast, goddess of cats. Did #Antinous and #Hadrian see the big #Bastet cat temple when they arrived in #Alexandria in August 130 AD? How could they miss it? Now it has been rediscovered: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/happy-world-cat-day-is-your-home-cat.html 🪷

🪷 26 Aug is #NationalDogDay: In August-September 130 AD, #Antinous and #Hadrian visited #Mennefer/Memphis in Egypt. They must have seen the #Anubieion Temple of #Anubis at Saqqara. Archaeologists have found 9 million dog mummies there. See full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/08/nine-million-mummified-dogs-found-at.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous follower #FcoLeo offers this adaptation of #Hadrian as the #Barberini #Faun, also called #FaunoBarberini or Drunken #Satyr, who eternally sleeps it off at Munich's Glyptothek. 🪷

🪷 #Hadrian as Ares/Mars, Farnese Antinous/Adonis ... This weekend your self-confidence gets a boost when #Mars forms a rare ego-boosting trine aspect with #Pluto. Go ahead! Demand a pay raise or anything else you know you deserve. Be ambitious. Go for bold! Next week's #Antinous #MoonMagic #astrology forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/astro-forecast-august-24th-3rd-2023.html 🪷

🪷 #Polydeukion head at Berlin #AltesMuseum. He was the favorite pf Herodes Atticus, rich Athenian friend of #Hadrian, who was brought to Rome to educate #MarcusAurelius and Lucius Verus. When Polydeukion died tragically, Herodes Atticus founded a cult like that of #Antinoos. 🪷

🪷 There is a popular misconception that Antinous was underage when his relationship with #Hadrian started. But there is no historical evidence that their relationship began before he was a legal adult. All sculptural art, without exception, depicts #Antinous as a mature male. 🪷

🪷 On 21 Aug with the sun poised to leave Leo, devotees of #Antinous commemorate the #LionHunt of #Hadrian/#Antinoos in Egypt in 130 AD when they slew a maneating lion. #Antinoo impetuously charged the beast and Hadrian interceded to save him. Read: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sacred-lion-hunt.html 🪷

🪷 On 21 Aug we commemorate the #LionHunt of #Hadrian/#Antinoos in Egypt in 130 AD when they slew a maneating lion. #ConstantineArch Tondo portrait shows #Hadrian standing on the lion he slew in Egypt with #Antinous (possibly at far right). Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sacred-lion-hunt.html 🪷

🪷 The Rosy Lotus of #Antinous ... which sprouted from the blood of the man-eating lion killed by #Hadrian and #Antinoos in Egypt in 130 AD ... the official flower of Antinous the Gay God ... Art by #AntoniusSubia. 🪷

🪷 On August 21st we remember that the rosy Lotus became associated with Antinous, and pink lotus waterlilies have always adorned his altars and statues. It is said that blossoms sprouted in the Nile from the blood of a lion slain by #Antinous and #Hadrian in 130AD. The pink Antinoeios flower was offered to him as a trophy. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-sacred-lion-hunt.html 🪷

🪷 On 11 Aug 117 AD the Legions proclaim #Hadrian Emperor of Rome. We celebrate it as a miracle without which #Antinous would never have been known. We recognize on this day that the beginning of Hadrian's era is the beginning of our own. Full details: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/legions-proclaim-hadrian-emperor.html 🪷

🪷 On 11 Aug 117 AD the Legions proclaim #Hadrian Emperor of Rome. We celebrate it as a miracle without which #Antinous would never have been known. We recognize on this day that the beginning of Hadrian's era is the beginning of our own. Full details: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/legions-proclaim-hadrian-emperor.html 🪷

🪷 On 11 Aug 117 AD the Legions proclaim #Hadrian Emperor of Rome. We celebrate it as a miracle without which #Antinous would never have been known. We recognize on this day that the beginning of Hadrian's era is the beginning of our own. Full details: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/08/legions-proclaim-hadrian-emperor.html Art by #RaffaeleCaruso 🪷