Antinous the Gay GodDec 23
🪷 #Solstice/#Yule/#Saturnalia: #Antinous was initiated into #Mithraic mysteries, writes #Yourcenar. Roman troops in Britannia adored this sculpture of #Mithras hatching from #Orphic Egg & the UK's oldest depiction of a #Zodiac. See it at Great North Museum Hancock: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/12/lovely-birth-of-mithras-sculpture.html 🪷
Lauren McMenemySep 5, 2025

So what will you be in for when you log on for Writing the Occult: Belief TOMORROW, Saturday 6 September? A whole bunch of fascinating discussions about belief and speculative fiction, including this one ⬇️

#ancientrome #romanbelief #mithras #mithraic #history #writing #writers

Antinous the Gay GodDec 24, 2024
🪷 #Solstice/#Yule/#Saturnalia: #Antinous embodies #Phanes, #Mithras, #SolInvictus hatching from the #Orphic Egg encircled by #Ouroboros on 25 December, the pagan origin of #Christmas. This head is possibly of #Antinoos as #Ganymede wearing a #Mithraic #Phrygian cap in the Louvre.🪷
Antinous the Gay GodDec 23, 2022
🪷 #Solstice/#Yule/#Saturnalia: #Antinous was initiated into #Mithraic mysteries, writes #Yourcenar. Roman troops in Britannia adored this sculpture of #Mithras hatching from #Orphic Egg & the UK's oldest depiction of a #Zodiac. See it at @GNM_Hancock: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/12/lovely-birth-of-mithras-sculpture.html 🪷
<font face="times new roman" size="+2" color="#FFFFFF"><center><B>LOVELY 'BIRTH OF MITHRAS' SCULPTURE <br>OLDEST DEPICTION OF ZODIAC IN BRITAIN</B></center></font>

ON   what is now Christmas Day, troops on Hadrian's Wall 1,800 years ago were celebrating the birthday of the god Mithras. Born on December ...

Antinous the Gay GodDec 23, 2022
🪷 #Solstice/#Yule/#Saturnalia: #Antinous was initiated into #Mithraic mysteries, writes #Yourcenar. Roman troops in Britannia adored this sculpture of #Mithras hatching from #Orphic Egg & the UK's oldest depiction of a #Zodiac. See it at @GNM_Hancock: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/12/lovely-birth-of-mithras-sculpture.html 🪷
<font face="times new roman" size="+2" color="#FFFFFF"><center><B>LOVELY 'BIRTH OF MITHRAS' SCULPTURE <br>OLDEST DEPICTION OF ZODIAC IN BRITAIN</B></center></font>

ON   what is now Christmas Day, troops on Hadrian's Wall 1,800 years ago were celebrating the birthday of the god Mithras. Born on December ...