🪷 #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 🪷

🪷 Priest #Michaelus says Christians "demonized" the Greek word daemon. Daemons were spirits of prematurely dead youth who worked miracles and mediated between mortals and gods: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-four-layers-of-antinous-part-4-by.html Art: Antinous AgathoDaimon (Blessed Spirit) statue at #AltesMuseum Berlin. 🪷

🪷 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 🪷

🪷 Priests of #Antinous wish all #LGBTQIA fathers a Happy #FathersDay. Priest #Michaelus, a gay dad himself, says: "We honor #Hadrian on Father's Day. He is the Father of the Empire, so to speak, and a Father figure to Antinous." Art: #pierreetgilles: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/06/happy-fathers-day.html 🪷