Thursday, October 24, 2024

IN A FIRST, WE CAN READ WORDS
FROM A VESUVIUS-CHARRED PAPYRUS

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FOR  the first time, words have been read from a burnt, rolled-up scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, thanks to artificial intelligenc...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

THE SCORPION GODDESS SELKET
GUARDS THE TOMB OF ANTINOUS

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23 October  is the feast day of the Egyptian scorpion goddess Selket/Serqet ... on this day the Sun enters Scorpio. When Isis went off in se...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

SOME MODERN ANTINOUS WORSHIPERS
PURCHASE NEWSPAPER DEATH NOTICES

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LATE  October is the time of the Sacred Nights of Antinous ... culminating with the death and deification of Antinous. In the modern religio...
Monday, October 21, 2024

SUNRAYS ILLUMINATE INNER SANCTUARY
OF ABU SIMBEL AT DAWN OCTOBER 22nd

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FOR  most of the year, the inner sanctum of the main temple at Abu Simbel is shrouded in darkness. On two days, traditionally the anniversar...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

ANCIENT CROCODILE SKELETON FOUND
UNDER A TEMPLE AT ANTINOOPOLIS

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OCTOBER  20th is the ancient Egyptian Festival of Sobek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god.  Sobek is fierce, frightening, nurturing, and v...

THE LAST METEORS ANTINOUS SAW:
THE ORIONIDS REACH THEIR PEAK TONIGHT

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THE  last meteors that Antinous saw before he died in October of 130 AD! Go outside tonight and look up and see one of the great wonders of ...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

SAINT DIVINE
HARRIS GLENN MILSTEAD

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ON  October 19th we honor Saint Divine (October 19, 1945 — March 7, 1988), born Harris Glenn Milstead.  Divine was an openly gay American ac...