🪷 August 12th is the #Lychnapsia Roman festival of Lighting Lamps for the Dead. Torchlight processions help #Isis & #Nephthys search for #Osiris, with whom #Antinous is identified as both died in the Nile. Light a candle to help lost spirits find eternal light. Art by #LynnPerkins 🪷

🪷 March 2 is the Going Forth of #Seth, Egyptian god of desert storms and chaos, foe of #Horus. He murdered his brother Osiris, who is the symbol of stability but also death and resurrection. #Antinous has always been identified with #Osiris as god of victory over death. (Antinous art #LynnPerkins) 🪷