🪷 Modern Antinous Priest #Michaelus reminds us that #Antinous historically is most identified as a hero. And you can be a hero too. He says: "Antinous is our Hero. He is the example. You may well be a hero to someone." Full text: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-four-layers-of-antinous-part-2-by.html Art: #AndrewPrior 🪷

🪷 #Antinous Lion Statue art by #AndrewPrior: On 21 Aug we commemorate the sacred lion hunt, the last event recorded in the life of Antinous before his death in October 130 AD. It was immortalized on papyrus by the poet Pancrates. You can read it here: http://www.antinopolis.org/religion/doctrine/lionhunt.htm 🪷

🪷 Art: Statue of Antinous riding a lion in the lost tomb of Antinous by #AndrewPrior ... Today #Mercury leaves sulky #Cancer and struts into lively #Leo so that everyone is a drama queen. Strut your stuff now before Mercury sashays away into finicky #Virgo on 29 July. #Antinous #MoonMagic #astrology forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/07/astro-forecast-july-6th-2023.html 🪷

🪷 Where is the #LostTomb of #Antinous? Modern-day Priest #AntoniusSubia says: "Search for his resting place in yourself. By opening your heart to Antinous you can begin to unfold the beauty of gay spirituality within yourself." https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-entombment-of-antinous.html Art by #AndrewPrior. 🪷

🪷 February 9th: Happy Birthday to #AndrewPrior, who created this stunning portrait of #Antinous in the style of #Antinoopolis/#Fayoum funerary portraits, encaustic paint-on-wax with gilding! This and other portraits by this brilliant UK artist have been exhibited at the Petrie Museum of Egyptology. 🪷

🪷 On February 1st we mark the day #Hadrian may have officiated at the #openingofthemouth rites over the mummy of #Antinous at #Antinoopolis in 131 AD, final ritual in the 72-day mummification process. Here's how it may have happened: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-entombment-of-antinous.html Portraits by #AndrewPrior 🪷

🪷 On February 1st we mark the day #Hadrian may have officiated at the #openingofthemouth rites over the mummy of #Antinous at #Antinoopolis in 131 AD, final ritual in the 72-day mummification process. Here's how it may have happened: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-entombment-of-antinous.html Portraits by #AndrewPrior 🪷