🪷 Modern-day Priest of #Antinous #AntoniusSubia undertook a sacred pilgrimage to Egypt in the footsteps of #Antinous & #Hadrian, visiting #Antinoopolis and other sites. Come with him as he reveals the hidden mysteries of #Karnak with exclusive photos: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/02/antonius-subias-pilgrimage-to-egypt.html 🪷
🪷 This is the first priest of #Antinous in 1,600 years to visit #Antinoopolis Egypt where #Antinoos died and was deified. Read Priest #AntoniusSubia 's first-hand account of this historic visit escorted by armed guards and welcomed by smiling villagers: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/02/antonius-subia-first-priest-of-antinous.html 🪷
🪷 11 Feb is the Egyptian Feast of #Osiris. Antinous is identified with Osiris. An #Osireion-style tomb of #Antinous Osiris may be at #Antinoopolis, say archaeologists who found a "deliberately buried stone structure" there. Here's the one at #Abydos: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/02/now-you-can-see-tomb-of-osiris-just-as.html 🪷
🪷 January 23rd we honor #Asclas of #Antinoopolis, representing the many martyrs throughout the centuries - pagans, Jews, Christians - who've been persecuted, tortured and killed in the hotbed of religious fervor around #Antinopolis and #Akhenaten's #Armana: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-martyrs-of-antinoopolis.html 🪷
🪷 23 Jan is a major feast of #Hathor, Egyptian goddess of home love, beauty, motherhood. In 2017, archaeologists found a temple cornice stone at #Antinoopolis which mentions Hathor and #Antinous, along with #Hadrian, #Empress #Sabina and Egypt's intersex deity #Hapi. 🪷
🪷 The end of the year is always a good time for oracles and magic. Ancient priests of #Antinous cast #LoveSpells and other #MagicSpells. We know of one spell: https://www.antinopolis.org/religion/doctrine/lovespell.htm. Now papyri found near #Antinoopolis corroborate more magical spellwork: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/12/experts-decipher-two-magical-spells.html 🪷
🪷 On 23 Dec 1912, photographer Paul Hollander took the first studio photo of the bust of #Nefertiti in the excavation house at #Amarna (20 km from #Antinoopolis) ... before German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt spirited the bust away to Berlin, where it remains to this day. 🪷
🪷 December 23rd is a major feast of #Hathor, Egyptian goddess of home love, beauty, motherhood. In 2017, archaeologists found a temple cornice stone at #Antinoopolis which mentions Hathor and #Antinous, along with #Hadrian, Empress Sabina and Egypt's intersex Nile flood deity #Hapi. 🪷
🪷 #Solstice dawn sunbeams illuminate the inner sanctum of a #Sobek crocodile god temple in the Fayoum oasis of Egypt not far from #Antinoopolis, where a croc was entombed under an #Antinous temple to guard a secret buried chamber. Full details: https://antinousgaygod.blogspot.com/2019/12/dawn-sunbeams-illuminate-temple-during.html 21 Dec 🪷
🪷 December 4th is #SockDay: #Antinoopolis, founded where #Antinous died, is famous for woven cloth, tapestries. A child's sock found at #Antinopolis has innovative weaving and dyeing techniques. Such socks were exported throughout the empire: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/stripey-sock-shows-antinoopolitans-were.html #NationalSockDay 🪷