antinousgaygod, 9 months ago to random

🪷 28 Sept is the Egyptian feast day of #HAPI, intersex Nile inundation deity invoked by #Antinous for his first recorded miracle: a bountiful flood to end a famine. It is told in hieroglyphs on the Obelisk of #Antinoos. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-first-miracle-of-antinous-involved.html Photos by #AntoniusSubia 🪷

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antinousgaygod, 9 months ago to random

🪷 (Hapi art by #PinkPrince) ... September 28th is the Egyptian feast day of #HAPI, intersex Nile inundation deity invoked by #Antinous for his first recorded miracle: a bountiful flood to end a famine. It is told in hieroglyphs on the Obelisk of #Antinoos atop Rome's Pincio Hill: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-first-miracle-of-antinous-involved.html 🪷

antinousgaygod, 9 months ago to random

🪷 Art by @idahlart Instagram ... Emperor #Hadrian loved #Antinous so much that when he died tragically in the Nile in October 130 AD, he declared #Antinoos a god and founded the city of #Antinoopolis there and erected temples and raised statues to him throughout the Roman Empire. 🪷

antinousgaygod, 10 months ago to random

🪷 Today is #WorldHoneyBeeDay: #Antinous as divine beekeeper #Aristaeus, who plunged into a sacred river to work a miracle to #SaveTheBees. #Antinoos/#Aristée, Musee Louvre. We need a beekeeping miracle now as bees vanish worldwide. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/05/as-bees-mysteriously-disappear-we.html #HoneyBeeDay 🪷

antinousgaygod, 10 months ago to random

🪷 Today is #WorldHoneyBeeDay: As a boy in Bithynia (Turkey), #Antinous must have tasted #MadHoney: bees honey made from rhododendron blossoms. Causes hallucinations when mixed with drinks. You can still get it in the mountains where #Antinoos was born: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-birthplace-of-antinous-is-home-of.html 🪷

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antinousgaygod, 10 months ago to random

🪷 Today is #MensGroomingDay: Any well-groomed Roman had an #Antinous #Balsamarium for unguents, perfume oil, bath oils ... in hopes of coming out of the baths looking as handsome as #Antinoos! Lots more #balsamaria here: http://www.antinopolis.org/gallery/icons/balsamaria.html More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/no-well-groomed-roman-male-was-without.html 🪷

antinousgaygod, 10 months ago to random

🪷 August 13th is #LeftHandersDay: Was Antinous left-handed? His left hand is prominent in many sculptures. But we will never know for sure. All we can say is that #Antinous loves lefties. #Antinoos loves right-handers too. His love is ambidextrous!#InternationalLeftHandersDay! 🪷

antinousgaygod, 10 months ago to random

🪷 6 Aug is the festival of #Thoth/#Djehuti. #Hadrian & #Antinous were in Egypt in Aug 130 AD and visited #Hermopolis, where #Antinoos died mysteriously in the Nile. Had he discovered secrets of life and death in the ibis and baboon mummy catacombs? https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/08/let-antinous-guide-you-through.html 🪷

antinousgaygod, 11 months ago to random

🪷 25 July we joyously celebrate the first recorded miracle of #Antinous in July 131 AD: He intercedes with #HAPI, intersex Nile inundation deity, to end a drought famine. #Antinoos thus becomes known as a worker of miracles. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-inundation-of-nile-was-seen-as.html Art: #AntoniusSubia 🪷