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Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 March 25th is the <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Hilaria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hilaria</span></a> (Day of Joy) celebrating the transgender rebirth of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a> in a spring festival honoring Magna Mater <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Cybele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybele</span></a> and Attis. In March 129 AD <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Hadrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hadrian</span></a> visited Pessinus Phrygia ruled by Cybele's transgender priests, called "galloi" in Greek and "galli" in Latin. Full details here: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/03/antinous-in-pessinus-home-of-gender.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antinousstars.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">3/03/antinous-in-pessinus-home-of-gender.html</span></a> 🪷</p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> as a priest of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a> wears diadem with plaques of Attis &amp; <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Jupiter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jupiter</span></a>. At the <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Equinox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Equinox</span></a>, <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a> dies <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/cismale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cismale</span></a>, and is reborn reborn <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a>. <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/AntoniusSubia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntoniusSubia</span></a> says: "Attis severed his own testicles and died, but did not die." Full report here: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/03/antinous-attis-dies-and-is-reborn.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antinousstars.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/antinous-attis-dies-and-is-reborn.html</span></a> 🪷</p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> as a priest of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a>. The curls of his hair still retain some traces of reddish pigment. An ancient text says it was "purple-like" (πορφυρεωπα = porphyriopa). @AntoniusSubia suggests it means dark with reddish-brown highlights. More here: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-color-hair-did-antinous-have-by.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antinousstars.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">0/10/what-color-hair-did-antinous-have-by.html</span></a> 🪷</p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> as a priest of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a>. The curls of his hair still retain some traces of reddish pigment. An ancient text says it was "purple-like" (πορφυρεωπα = porphyriopa). <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/AntoniusSubia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntoniusSubia</span></a> suggests it means dark with reddish-brown highlights. More here: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-color-hair-did-antinous-have-by.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antinousstars.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">0/10/what-color-hair-did-antinous-have-by.html</span></a> 🪷</p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Saturnalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saturnalia</span></a>: Happy Mid-Winter Festival of your choice! December 25th the son/sun is reborn, known by many names: <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/SolInvictus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolInvictus</span></a>, Jesus, <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Adonis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adonis</span></a>, <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Dionysus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dionysus</span></a>, <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Horus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Horus</span></a>, <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Herne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Herne</span></a>, <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a>, <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Freyr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Freyr</span></a>, <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Mithras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mithras</span></a>. In celebration of the return of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> Invictus. More: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-saturnalia-golden-age-of-saturn.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antinousstars.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">4/12/the-saturnalia-golden-age-of-saturn.html</span></a> 🪷</p>
Thomas G. M. Blank<p>Die Druckfassung in Händen! 648 S. zu <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/R%C3%B6mischeReligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RömischeReligion</span></a>, restringierter Kommunikation, Konflikten rings um <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Geheimnisse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geheimnisse</span></a> und <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Klatsch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Klatsch</span></a>, und ach ja, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Plautus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plautus</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/secrecy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secrecy</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacchanalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacchanalia</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MaterMagna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaterMagna</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/RomanReligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomanReligion</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Antiquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antiquity</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientHistory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Religioese-Geheimniskommunikation-in-der-Mittleren-und-Spaeten-Roemischen-Republik/9783515133869" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">steiner-verlag.de/Religioese-G</span><span class="invisible">eheimniskommunikation-in-der-Mittleren-und-Spaeten-Roemischen-Republik/9783515133869</span></a></p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 During the cycle of the March Equinox, <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> wears the diadem of a priest of transgender <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a>, who dies and is reborn at this time of year. He dies as a cis-male and is reborn as transgender. <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/AntoniusSubia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntoniusSubia</span></a> says: "The <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Equinox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Equinox</span></a> ... the Mithraic Mysteries and all the other remembrances ... are all contained in the Death and Resurrection of Attis the beautiful young man ... who died giving his blood to the bosom of the earth ... but did not die." More: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/03/antinous-attis-dies-and-is-reborn.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antinousstars.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">4/03/antinous-attis-dies-and-is-reborn.html</span></a> 🪷</p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> as a priest of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a>. The curls of his hair still retain some traces of reddish pigment. An ancient text says it was "purple-like" (πορφυρεωπα = porphyriopa). @AntoniusSubia suggests it means dark with reddish-brown highlights. More here: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-color-hair-did-antinous-have-by.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antinousstars.blogspot.com/202</span><span class="invisible">0/10/what-color-hair-did-antinous-have-by.html</span></a> 🪷</p>
🌾 νησσοτροφεῖον 🌾<p>March is the first month in the older Roman calendar. Of interest this month is a festal sequence for <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/Cybele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybele</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/Attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a> and Liber's special day.</p><p>🎋 Canna Intrat (15): marks the birth of Attis.</p><p>⛓️ Liberalia (17): celebration of <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/Liber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liber</span></a>, god of vegetation and freedom, and a day for coming of age ceremonies. The god was sometimes, in later periods, conflated with <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/Bacchus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bacchus</span></a> or <a href="https://weirder.earth/tags/Dionysos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dionysos</span></a>.</p>
🦆 νησσοτροφεῖον 🦆<p>March is the first month in the older Roman calendar. Of interest this month is a festal sequence for <a href="https://sunbeam.city/tags/cybele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybele</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://sunbeam.city/tags/attis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Attis</span></a> and Liber's special day.</p><p>🎋 Canna Intrat (15): marks the birth of Attis.</p><p>⛓️ Liberalia (17): celebration of <a href="https://sunbeam.city/tags/liber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liber</span></a>, god of vegetation and freedom, and a day for coming of age ceremonies. The god was sometimes, in later periods, conflated with <a href="https://sunbeam.city/tags/bacchus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bacchus</span></a> or <a href="https://sunbeam.city/tags/dionysos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dionysos</span></a>.</p><p>🌲 Arbor Intrat (22): marks the death of Attis, and is followed by a 3-day mourning period (23—25).</p><p>📯 Tubilustrum (23): an older holiday in honor of <a href="https://sunbeam.city/tags/mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a>, marking the beginning of the campaign season and a cleansing of either war trumpets or sacrificial trumpets (scholars disagree).</p><p>😭 Dies Sanguinis (24): a day of frenzied, violent mourning for Attis.</p><p>😆 Hilaria (25): celebration of the resurrection of Attis.</p><p>🛏️ Requietio (26): a day of rest from festal mourning.</p><p>⛲ Lavatio (27): ritual washing of Cybele's image</p><p>🥗 Salus (30): holiday in honor of Salus, goddess of safety.</p>