The Ekklesia Antinoou in Fifty Years

March 14, 2014 by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus

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It is 1:35pm, and I can see my last breath on the horizon. As planned, everyone leaves the room, with only the nurse and my House Thyrsatrae colleague still in here, but I am not looking at them after I thanked them as everyone else left. My eyes are fixed on the image of Antinous I've had for more than fifty years, which will be the last thing I see in this world as I close my eyes.

But, ever the one who finds prolonged concentration difficult, my eyes flicker over to the clock, which reads 1:38pm as I glance from it one last time to Antinous before closing my eyes.

Three days later, after cremation, my ashes will be gathered, taken in a boat past the ninth wave on the west of Whidbey Island, set ablaze with oils again and the smell of storax resin, and dropped into the sea. In the cenotaph to Antinous in the Temple will be built a small chapel with my name on the inscription plaque, and the titles I accrued over the years. If people want to honor me, they can look at the beautiful Puget Sound to the west of the island where I was born, or they can come to this place at the Temple. Vel in limine mundi, Ecce! Ego semper sum coram te!: Even at the edge of the world, behold! I am in your presence!

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About P. Sufenas Virius Lupus

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus is a metagender and a founding member of the Ekklesía Antínoou (a queer, Graeco-Roman-Egyptian syncretist reconstructionist polytheist religious group dedicated to Antinous, the deified lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and other related gods and divine figures). E is a contributing member of Neos Alexandria and a Celtic Reconstructionist pagan in the filidecht and gentlidecht traditions. Follow Lupus' work on the Aedicula Antinoi blog.

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