Devotio Antinoo: The Doctor's Notes, Volume One

by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus

The culmination of nearly ten years of research and devotion on the part of its author, presented now for the use of anyone who wishes to develop a devotional practice with Antinous, the gods with whom he was syncretized, Hadrian, other Divi, and many more divine figures. Learn the holy days and festivals of the year, the hymns and prayers for different occasions, the ancient texts that have survived in papyrus fragments, literary excerpts, and inscriptions, and ideas on different devotional activities that can be performed as well. Everything you need to practice in the tradition of the Ekklesía Antínoou is contained in this book, and much more!

512 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2011

About the author

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus is a metagender person, and one of the founding members of the Ekklesía Antínoou–a queer, Graeco-Roman-Egyptian syncretist reconstructionist polytheist group dedicated to Antinous, the deified lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, and related deities and divine figures–as well as a contributing member of Neos Alexandria and a practicing Celtic Reconstructionist pagan in the traditions of gentlidecht and filidecht, as well as Romano-British, Welsh, and Gaulish deity devotions. Lupus is also dedicated to several land spirits around the area of North Puget Sound and its islands.

(text taken from eir blog)

Reviews

[Merlin Monroe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Invaluable text for the modern Antinoan, but a little hampered by its origin as a collection of blog articles and notes. Though the publication of this book opened up my own Antinoan practice (even after taking mysteries in the Ekklesia), I would have much preferred it to feel a little more unified and blended together.