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Antinous, Son of…?
I have a few things of substance I’d like to post about in the near future, but I am running preciously low on neurotransmitters at the moment, so this is about all I can get out at the moment, I fear....
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Gods, Heroes, and Morals…
Yes, folks, you read the above subject line correctly: it’s not meant to be “mortals,” which many in the polytheist community would naturally associate with the theological distinctions preceding it in...
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From the Muse’s Lips (for S. J. Tucker)
[A while back--perhaps late August or early September, I think--S. J. Tucker had a contest in relation to a new song she had just released. Due to various circumstances, I was not able to participate...
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Nine Days Along the Nile: III
VII Kal. Nov. I saw a tangle of four serpents in the sand today. Tiresias was worse—or was he/she better?—for having separated such. I did nothing, but instead watched them in amazement. A shrine of a...
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Foundation Day 2013 Debrief…
His lovely face is back, in full force, in my life, and my immediate visual range, once again, dear friends… So, I arrived back from our Foundation Day ritual for Antinous almost ninety minutes ago,...
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Three Days of Devotion (Times Ten…!?!)
While I’m never short on potential ideas for what to post on the blog here (and I’ve got three that I hope to get to in the next few days), nonetheless, interesting things always come up and suggest...
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Types of Divine Being…
On Thursday, I was at college for longer than I usually am, because that evening, an hour and some after my usual class ended for the week, I was invited to speak in an Anthropology of Religion course,...
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An Interesting Dream…
While there’s a great deal of (atheist) stupidity due to lack of expanded horizons going on else-internet, and I do have a lot of other posts I’d like to make in the near future, I wanted to record the...
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Some Ancient Archaeological Stories of Note…
Every once in a while, a site that collects archaeological stories relating to Rome lists one of my entries here at the blog…and, it’s often quite amusing to me, because the things they link to have...
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Natalis Antinoi MCMIV
Guess who’s the birthday boy today? The above statue of Antinous is not from the ancient cultus; it dates to no earlier than 1700. Nonetheless, it’s the most youthful image of him that I know of…though...
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The Remains of the Day…
So, though my prospects for celebrating Natalis Antinoi with anyone who cares at all or would get the significance of it looked pretty grim earlier, I managed to have some successes with it, after all!...
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Epibateria Friday
Nothing reminds us of how very different the ancient world was than the kinds of holy days and civic celebrations that are marked on their calendars, which are not marked on ours. Today is one such...
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Shinto Inferno 2014
Today, I was up early and attended the Koshinsatsu Takiageshiki Shikishidai at the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America–or, what I like to call “Shinto Inferno”! [Note: the above photo is not of this year's...
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Paganalia/Sementivae 2014, Part III: A Discussion With Relevance to Modern...
May Ceres Legifera bless my efforts and guide my words on this her holy festival. So, I’ve written about this two-day festival, Paganalia/Sementivae, in the past for 2012 and for 2013. If you want to...
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A follow-up re: Phalloi
I wanted to make a brief reply to Sannion’s recent post in response to mine, regarding a very particular point that he drew out–guess what that was about? (And, since he no longer allows comments on...
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A New Holiday for Antinous in Late February…?!?
So, in mentioning Pete Seeger yesterday, I got to listening to and thinking about some music from the 1960s, and I went immediately to this Jefferson Airplane favorite of mine: And that also got me...
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PantheaCon 2014: Last Things First…
So, it’s hard to disentangle where to begin with PantheaCon this year (even though I’ve already taken a stab at that), and I suspect I may have to devote an entire entry to each event that I organized...
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PantheaCon 2014 (Plus): A Speech by Favorinus of Arles
As one of the further “bonuses” I promised in relation to PantheaCon, I wanted to write the following piece below. Many of you know that I wasn’t, for various reasons, able to be in the “Yes They Are!...
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An Amusing Turn of Events…!
I had my final Religion 101 class this evening at one of the colleges I teach for; their term is eight weeks long, with a five-hour course once a week each of those eight weeks. It was a good class–in...
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The Trophimoi Festival 2014: The Treískouroi
At last (!?!), we come to the 2014 Festival of the Trophimoi and Family of Herodes Attikos, which begins with the festival of the Treískouroi–Antinous, Polydeukion, and Lucius Marius Vitalis, the main...
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