🪷 #MontagueSummers died 10 Aug 1948. He wrote tomes on LGBTRights werewolves lycanthropy demonology witchcraft vampires ... and #Antinous. He is a Saint of #Antinoos. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/montague-summers-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷
#BonAnniversaire le musée du Louvre 🎉#CeJourLà en 1793, Musée du Louvre ouvrait ses portes au public! 🎉Happy birthday to the Louvre. On 10 Aug 1793 the Louvre opened its doors to the public. #Antinous as #Osiris, who also died in the Nile and triumphed over death as a deity.
🪷 8 Aug 117 AD LGBT turning point: #Trajan's death paves way for #Hadrian to be emperor: Were #Antinous & Hadrian really "gay"? Scholars quibbled until 2008 when @britishmuseum curator #ThorstenOpper declared: "Hadrian was gay and we can say that now." https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-accession-of-hadrian-as-emperor-of.html 🪷
🪷Tonight's #Taurus #ThirdQuarter Moon is the #lunarphase of brotherhood we call the #Lucius Moon in honor of #Hadrian's other favorite, #LuciusAelius. We venerate #Aelius #Caesar as the fallen #PrinceofFlowers, the spiritual twin brother of #Antinous: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-moon-of-lucius-aelius-caesar-taurus.html 🪷
🪷 7 Aug is #NationalLighthouseDay: In August we remember the arrival of #Antinous in Alexandria in 130 AD. He saw the Lighthouse, heard tales of mortals who die in the Nile being deified. Soon Antinous would drown. He would become a God. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/08/antinous-entered-alexandria-with.html #LighthouseDay 🪷
🪷 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 🪷
🪷 #Antinous art by Rome-based artist Margherita Lipinska via Instagram: https://instagram.com/margheritalipinska. Visit her website for much more Antinous art: https://www.lipinska.it/ 🪷
🪷 The first Sunday of August is #NationalDollDay, perfect day to take your #Antinous #actionfigure #doll for a Sunday outing, especially since he is always "out" as Antinous the Gay God. Ancient worshipers carried Antinous coins, amulets and figurines with them at all times. 🪷
🪷 🙏Saint of #Antinous #KlausNomi was a trained Baroque opera counter tenor who transformed New Wave SynthPop disco and who inspired #DavidBowie #ladygaga. Born 24 January 1944. Died 6 August 1983, shunned & alone because he had AIDS. Full tribute here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-honor-klaus-nomi-as-saint-of-antinous.html 🙏❤️ 🪷
🪷 The first Sunday of August is #NationalDollDay, perfect day to take your #Antinous #actionfigure #doll for a Sunday outing, especially since he is always "out" as Antinous the Gay God. Ancient worshipers carried Antinous coins, amulets and figurines with them at all times. 🪷
🪷 5 Aug is #NationalUnderwearDay: "Rameses is British - #Rameses is dependable" ... Now we know why #Ramses the Great was Great ... because he wore good quality woolen British-made unshrinkable underwear! Pharaoh's pants past. #underwearday 🪷
🪷 5 Aug is #NationalUnderwearDay: "Rameses is British - #Rameses is dependable" ... Now we know why #Ramses the Great was Great ... because he wore good quality woolen British-made unshrinkable underwear! Pharaoh's pants past. #underwearday 🪷
🪷 #Antinous lives! Antinous is you! You are Antinous, the ancient/modern god of Sacred #Homotheosis. What's that? Find out here: http://antinopolis.org/religion/homotheosis.htm 🪷
🪷 5 Aug is National Underwear Day. Here's how to gird up your loins. This time-honored loin-girding technique works with any caftan, galabeya, nightshirt, sarong etc, depending on what you happen to be wearing when suddenly called upon to go into battle. #NationalUnderwearDay.🪷
🪷 #PeteBurns (5 Aug 1959 - 23 Oct 2016) is a saint of #Antinous! Pete defied gender roles and inspired a generation of people to be all that they could be and to settle for nothing less than their ultimate goal. Full Tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/10/vivacious-androgynous-pete-burns-is.html 🪷
🪷 August 5th is #NationalUnderwearDay #Ganymede attends #Zeus eagle wearing a jockstrap thanks to #Elmgreen/#Dragset. Sculpture by #Thorvaldsen. #UnderwearDay 🪷
🪷 August 5this the Feast of #Hygeia/#Salus daughter of #Aesculapius. She is the goddess of cleanliness, not only bodily but environmentally. Depicted with a serpent which #Hygiea feeds. Worshipers offer locks of hair to #Hygieia seeking her blessing. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/02/on-feast-day-of-hygeia-we-honor-our.html 🪷
