🪷 16 June is the Egyptian "Night of the Teardrop" festival when #Isis weeps for slain #Osiris. Intersex Nile inundation deity #HAPI collects a tear, spawning the July flood. #Hadrian wept for #Antinous, who interceded with #Hapy for a miracle flood: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/we-remember-night-of-teardrop-when.html 🪷

🪷 At the Solstice 129 AD, #Antinous and #Hadrian visited #Ephesus and strode through the gate of #Hercules and up the steps into the Temple of #Artemis / #Diana, one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. Hadrian was called Hercules and Antinous #Hylas: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/antinous-sees-seventh-wonder-of-world.html 🪷

🪷 #Antinous as #Androclus founder of #Ephesus, which he and #Hadrian visited at the June #Solstice 129 AD. They saw the Temple of #Artemis / #Diana, one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. Hadrian was called Hercules and Antinous #Hylas. Full report: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/antinous-sees-seventh-wonder-of-world.html 🪷

🪷 11 June the #StarOfAntinous rises above horizon. The Constellation of #Antinous is overhead nightly now til Oct. #Hadrian's astronomers said it was #Antinoos taking his place as a star in the (hitherto) #Ganymede constellation near #Aquila the Eagle: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-rise-of-star-of-antinous.html 🪷

🪷 #AlexanderTheGreat died 10 June 323 BC in Babylon. His body was taken to Egypt where the Caesars visited his tomb, probably also #Hadrian & #Antinous. #Alexander is an example of the greatness of homosexuality. Where is his tomb? Here are some clues: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/06/we-weep-for-death-of-alexander-heroic.html 🪷

🪷 #MargueriteYourcenar was born 8 June 1903, died 17 Dec 1987. #Antinous #BookTip: "Memoirs of #Hadrian " (#MémoiresDHadrien) by Marguerite #Yourcenar is the finest Historical Novel ever written. Full tribute: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/12/marguerite-yourcenar-is-saint-of.html 🪷

🪷 When in Munich, visit the wonderful Ägyptisches Museum München (Egyptian Museum) and be sure to pay regards to #Antinous as well. Tell them Antinous the Gay God sent you and says "liebe Grüße! (Photo: #Antinoos / #Osiris red marble statue from #Hadrian 's Villa.)🪷

ROUGH ROMAN PRIDE

🪷 On 1 June we honor the Roman goddess #Juno, queen of heaven, with whom #Hadrian's wife Empress Sabina is identified ritually. The month of June is named for her. Celebrate the way the Romans did: lots of flowers, dancing, merriment and fabulous feasting. Art: #AntoniusSubia 🪷

🪷 #Hadrian and #Antinous ... engraving by #BartolomeoPinelli in his History of the Emperors, 101 prints starting from Octavian (1829). 🪷