Antinous the Gay God🪷 #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 ...