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Erotic Mythology 🌷<p>It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thursday</span></a>! ⚡</p><p>"To Tros in turn there were born 3 sons unfaulted, Ilos, Assarakos, and godlike Ganymede who was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves to be Zeus' wine-pourer, for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the gods."<br>Homer, Iliad 20. 232</p><p>🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ganymedes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ganymedes</span></a> abducted by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zeus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zeus</span></a>, Roman <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mosaic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mosaic</span></a> from Sousse, Tunisia, 2nd century CE</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfZeus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfZeus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a></p>
Antinous the Gay God<p>🪷 (Art by <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/PierreEtGil%C3%B6es" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PierreEtGilöes</span></a>) ... On this day, as the Sun enters the Sign of <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Aquarius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aquarius</span></a> the Cupbearer, we honor <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Ganymede" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ganymede</span></a>, the gorgeous youth who was carried aloft to Olympus by <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Jupiter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jupiter</span></a> / <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Zeus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zeus</span></a> ... <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinous</span></a> was called the "modern Ganymede" by the Romans, who likened <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Hadrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hadrian</span></a> to Jupiter ... The Eagle of Zeus carried <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Ganymedes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ganymedes</span></a> to Olympus ... The Imperial Eagle carried <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Antinoos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antinoos</span></a> to Rome ... The Constellation of Ganymede was renamed the Constellation of Antinous. More here: <a href="https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-assumption-of-ganymede.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">5/01/the-assumption-of-ganymede.html</span></a> 🪷</p>