Aedicula Antinoi: A Small Shrine of Antinous

You can find published writings by me, P. Sufenas Virius Lupus, in the following books.

Full-Length Books

The Phillupic Hymns (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2008). A full length book of poetry (and a few prose pieces), featuring 130 poems, notes, and including translations of a number of Antinoan documents, including the Obelisk of Antinous, the Tebtynis Papyrus, the Citharoedic Hymn of Curium, the Thespiae Inscription, and parts of Dionysius of Alexandria’s Periegete and Arrian of Nikomedia’s Periplus Ponti Euxini. Available here!

The Syncretisms of Antinous (The Red Lotus Library, 2010). In this book, you will find out about the familiar as well as the more obscure syncretisms of Antinous, from Hermes to Herakles, Dionysos to the Dioskouroi, Apollon to Apis, Adonis to Attis, Pan to Poseidon, Achilleus to Aristaios, Endymion to Eunostos, Eros to Echmoun, and many more! You will also find resources to guide you in getting to know these syncretisms further, and ideas for devotional practices based upon them. Available here!

Devotio Antinoo: The Doctor’s Notes, Volume One (The Red Lotus Library, 2011). 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! Available here!

All-Soul, All-Body, All-Love, All-Power: A TransMythology (The Red Lotus Library, 2012). A modern, living myth of transgender and gender-variant deities, their conception and birth, and history narrated in poetic form. And, a few suggestions on interpretive strategies and how to integrate them into cultic practice. Available here!

Poems

“Hekate Soteira,” in Bearing Torches: A Devotional Anthology for Hekate (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2009), p. 81. Available here!

“Triad for Serapis,” in Waters of Life: A Devotional Anthology for Isis and Serapis (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2009), pp. 49-52. Available here!

“Artemis and Lykastos” and “Diana Celticae,” in Unbound: A Devotional Anthology for Artemis (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2009), pp. 61-66, 147-150. Available here!

“Abraxas,” “Matres,” in Datura: An Anthology of Esoteric Poesis, ed. Ruby Sara (Scarlet Imprint, 2010), pp. 76, 122. Available here! And in paperback, here!

“Zeus,” “Pindar’s Notes,” in From Cave to Sky: A Devotional Anthology for Zeus (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2010), pp. 29-30, 118-119. Available here!

“Aegipan,” “Panantinous,” “Pan’s Mistakes,” in Out of Arcadia: A Devotional Anthology for Pan (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2011), pp. 2-3, 22-23, 43. Available here!

“Atargatis,” “Telepinu,” “Dagon,” “Three Moons,” “Reshef,” “Asherah,” “Allat,” “Ubelluris,” “Peace of Tanit,” “The Palmyrian Triad,” “The Appearance of Ereshkigal in Egypt,” “Anat’s Marriage,” “Nehushtan,” “Hercules of Palmyra,” “Spell of Iao Sabaoth,” “Prayer to Men,” “Tyre and Sidon,” in Anointed: A Devotional Anthology for the Deities of the Near and Middle East (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2011), pp. 7, 10, 15, 21, 23, 27, 29, 32, 37, 41, 51-52, 57-58, 65-66, 71-74, 95, 98-99, 246-247. Available here!

“Eye of Re,” “The Lions of Egypt,” in Galina Krasskova (ed.), When The Lion Roars: A Devotional to the Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet (Hubbardston, MA: Asphodel Press, 2011), pp. 56-59. Available here!

“Persephone,” “Spartacus Celebrates Kottytia,” in Melitta Benu et al. (eds.), Queen of the Sacred Way: A Devotional Anthology in Honor of Persephone (Asheville, NC: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2012), pp. 32-33, 185-188. Available here!

Fiction

“Reunion,” in Rebecca Buchanan et al. (eds.), The Scribing Ibis: An Anthology of Pagan Fiction in Honor of Thoth (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2011), pp. 105-116. Available here!

“Jai Shri Panchamukha!,” in Rebecca Buchanan (ed.), Eternal Haunted Summer Autumn Equinox 2011. AVAILABLE ONLINE!

“Anankê Antínoou (Contingent Histories Along a Shard of the Second Sophistic),” in Inanna Gabriel and C. Bryan Brown (eds.), Etched Offerings: Voices from the Cauldron of Story (Charleston: Misanthrope Press, 2011), pp. 40-58. Available here!

Essays

“Gatekeepers, Way-Clearers, Mediators: Wepwawet (or Anubis and Hermanubis), Hekate and Ianus in the Practices of the Ekklesía Antínoou,” in Bearing Torches: A Devotional Anthology for Hekate (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2009), pp. 169-178. Available here!

“My Travels with Serapis (and Antinous),” in Waters of Life: A Devotional Anthology for Isis and Serapis (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2009), pp. 191-207. Available here!

“Artemis and the Cult of Antinous,” in Unbound: A Devotional Anthology for Artemis (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2009), pp. 106-112. Available here!

“An Obstetrician’s Nightmare: Zeus and Male Birth,” “Roman Olympians: The Cult of Zeus and Hadrian Olympios,” “Zeus of Ann Arbor,” in From Cave to Sky: A Devotional Anthology for Zeus (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2010), pp. 42-55, 97-105, 135-138. Available here!

“God-Sex and Consent: Two Examples of Saying ‘Yes!’ to Ecstasy,” in Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink, ed. Lee Harrington (Mystic Productions Press, 2010), pp. 147-159. Available here!

“From Arcadia With Love: Pan and the Cult of Antinous,” in Out of Arcadia: A Devotional Anthology for Pan (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2011), pp. 86-93. Available here!

“Ereshkigal in the Graeco-Roman-Egyptian Magical Tradition,” in Anointed: A Devotional Anthology for the Deities of the Near and Middle East (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2011), 213-224. Available here!

“Divine Rape Apologetics and the Story of Persephone,” “‘I Have Seen The Maiden’: Hadrian, Antinous, and the Eleusinian Mysteries,” in Melitta Benu et al. (eds.), Queen of the Sacred Way: A Devotional Anthology in Honor of Persephone (Asheville, NC: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2012), pp. 49-54, 164-172. Available here!

More are forthcoming, and so this page will be updated regularly!