🪷 18 Nov is #OccultDay: Ancient historians said #Hadrian cast a love spell that rebounded, killing #Antinous, & also that #Antinoos dabbled in Egyptian occult sacrificial magic at #Hermopolis, fabled site of #Thoth's Scroll of Life, by which #Isis raised #Osiris from the dead. Art by #AntoniusSubia 🪷

🪷 #Antinous of #Antinoopolis painted in the traditional Egyptian manner with ruddy skin hue (denoting males) and "wedjat" eyes with oversize irises symbolizing his power to heal, to protect and to provide spiritual insight into the Mysteries of the universe. He is guarded by #Hermanubis of #Hermopolis Magna, located across the Nile from Antinoopolis ... This sculpture is on the altar of Priest #Hernestus. 🪷

🪷 Yearly on 28 Oct modern worshipers globally commemorate the anniversary of the death of #Antinous in October 130 AD. He plunged into the Nile near #Hermopolis Egypt. His lover, grieving Emperor #Hadrian proclaimed him a god, the last Classical deity: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-de… Lithograph: #BartolomeoPinelli 1829 🪷

🪷 On 28 Oct we commemorate the death anniversary of #Antinous in the year 130 AD at #Hermopolis Egypt. Oct 28 is also the day of the #Bennu Bird (Egyptian phoenix) which concludes the #Osiris festival at Hermopolis. Deified, he became #Antinoos / Osiris. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/antinous-dies-as-mortal-rises-as-god-at.html Art: #MirandaBaggins 🪷

🪷 On 28 Oct we commemorate the death anniversary of #Antinous in the year 130 AD at #Hermopolis Egypt. Oct 28 is also the day of the #Bennu Bird (Egyptian phoenix) which concludes the #Osiris festival at Hermopolis. Deified, he became #Antinoos / Osiris. 🪷

🪷 Yearly on 28 Oct modern worshipers globally commemorate the anniversary of the death of #Antinous in October 130 AD. He plunged into the Nile near #Hermopolis Egypt. His lover, grieving Emperor #Hadrian proclaimed him a god, the last Classical deity: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-death-of-antinous.html Art: #LindaLarson 🪷

🪷 27 October 130 AD was the last full day in the mortal life of #Antinous. He died 28 October. It was during the Egyptian festival of the passion of #Osiris and #Isis at #Hermopolis Egypt. There he plunged into the Nile and emerged deified as #Antinoos / Osiris: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/antinous-and-scroll-of-thoth-by-which.html 🪷

🪷 The hare glyph "wn" means "to exist". The #hare goddess Wenut/Unut was revered with #Thoth / #Hermes at #Hermopolis across the Nile from #Antinoopolis. Originally depicted as a snake the "swift one". Later she had a goddess' body with a hare / #rabbit head. #InternationalRabbitDay. 🪷

🪷 24 May is Hermes #Trismegistus Day. Last city seen by #Antinous in 130 AD was #Hermopolis, city of #Thoth #Djehuty #Hermes #Trismegistos, who gave Isis the magic to raise Osiris from the dead. What secrets from the Scroll of Life did #Antinoos glean? https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/10/antinous-in-hermopolis-by-our-flamen.html 🪷

🪷 18 Nov is #OccultDay: Ancient historians said #Hadrian cast a love spell that rebounded, killing #Antinous, & also that #Antinoos dabbled in Egyptian occult sacrificial magic at #Hermopolis, fabled site of #Thoth's Scroll of Life, by which #Isis raised #Osiris from the dead.🪷