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Natalis Antinoi 2016
FOR THE BIRTH OF ANTINOUS The Bithynian Winds whistled through trees and mountains on a day late in November. They would quicken in the lungs of a boy just born that day, would become warm in His...
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The Problem With Prophecy
This might be an interesting topic to write about…and very possibly a controversial one as well. When the hell has that ever stopped me before, though? And, given all that’s going on in the world at...
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Some Publications (of the last few years) with Antinoan Relevance…
I’ve done a post like this occasionally toward the end of the calendar year a few times previously, and because there’s been a good few things of which I’ve become aware in the last couple of years...
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Sacred Nights of Antinous 2016–Antinous Triumphant
First things first: Oiche Shamhna Mhaith! As it happens, I got home slightly earlier than expected tonight (due to a friend offering a fortuitous ride), and had just enough time to nip across the...
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Sacred Nights of Antinous 2016–Death of Antinous
I will begin with the image that is familiar to all of you who read this blog regularly (and in particular around this time of year), which I have used every year (I think) on this date, to reflect the...
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Sacred Nights of Antinous 2016–Ananke Antinoou
This year’s Sacred Nights of Antinous are proving to be an interesting study in contrasts, and in perhaps emergent trends and themes in various ways…and not all of them positive (though not all of them...
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Stars Rise
Stars Rise Stars rise, and appear to fall, every day and night, and humans can stop this no more than they might wish to stop the sun’s journey; and yet, some think they are able to stop it– their...
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Lorica Hadriani
At long last… Even though I’ve done a VERY LONG post already today, I couldn’t wait a moment after making the following rediscovery. I have mentioned the Lorica Hadriani to a few people over the years....
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Serapeia (Romanus) 2016
Today I sing of Serapis who came from Egypt to Rome, who went from thence to Germania, to Londinium across the sea: the far-traveler, the bridge-maker, He who pours out the modius to all under the...
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New Sancta/e/i Song
[To the tune/format of David Bowie’s “Blackstar”] [David Bowie] In the Villa of Ormen In the Villa of Ormen Stands a solitary candle Aa-aa, aa-aa In the center of it all In the center of it all Your...
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A Calendrical Addition…?!?
Something which I suspect a great many people who are affiliated with the Ekklesía Antínoou find difficult–and occasionally impossible–to do is to observe, in however small or low-key a fashion, as...
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Ancestor Figures (And More!)
I had meant to do this post a long time back (in August, in fact), but because I did not have a camera readily available, I was not able to get to it. I finally got one–my old one from Ireland, which I...
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Antinous Epiphanes/Harpocrates/Karpocrates 2015
Dionysos to Antinous: I give you my pinecone-topped, ivy-streamed, fennel-stalked thyrsus, that you may lead the processions of Maenads and Bacchants in wondrous ecstasy and fearsome devotion....
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The Ekklesía Antínoou
[The following was an essay I submitted to an anthology that was supposed to be about “Pagan Paths” and groups of various sorts. Unfortunately, due to some difficulties in the editor’s life, the...
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Panthea 2015
Antinous to Demeter: Hail I say, and Praises I give to you, O Demeter, daughter of Kronos and Rhea, for the gifts you give to mortals and to the Deities, and the blessings which you have given to me....
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The Midpoint of This Blog…
While we are actually a few days past the midpoint of this blog now, nonetheless, it needs to be mentioned… Earlier this year, on Paganalia, I posted about my future plans for this blog, which include...
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Dies Caniculares 2015
[About 99% of my things are now moved into the apartment, and the next month will be spent trying to organize all of it, and likely getting rid of a fair few things…probably not books, but in any...
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Serapeia 2015–Other Devotions
[April 25th] Hermes arrived in the conference room long before anyone else, and looking around, he was both confused and somewhat excited. There was the central table surrounded in chairs–as anyone...
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Serapeia 2015
On many fronts, things have not exactly gone to plan this week. While I did manage to get the syncretistic hymn for the day done, I have not been able to do much for Robigalia, nor for Serapeia itself...
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Feralia 2015
[February 21st] Ariel ben Yitzach, known to his Greek and Roman friends as Abaris–named after the Hyperborean sage of ancient fame–was also not known to be Jewish by any of them. When some of them...
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