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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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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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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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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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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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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–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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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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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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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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