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	The Star of Antinous
		This constellation Antinous was accepted by astronomers almost for the next two thousand years, appearing on star maps up until the nineteenth century.
		When the Nova of Antinous showed its face in the sky, the constellation of the boy-god, held in the wings of the Eagle was low on the horizon.
		Antinous as Ganymede is the cupbearer, the water carrier, and the symbol of Aquarius.
	www.angelfire.com /ultra/antinous/pg5star.html (516 words)

	Antinous - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antinous or Antinoös (Greek: Αντινοος, born circa 110 or 111 AD, died 130 AD), lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey.
		Antinous as Osiris, from Hadrian Villa in Tivoli.
		In Greek mythology, Antinous, or Antinoös, son of Eupeithes, was the leader of Penelope's suitors and was the first to be killed by Odysseus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antinous (443 words)

	Star Tales – Antinous
		The constellation Antinous was mentioned as a sub-division of Aquila by Ptolemy in his Almagest (which was written about 20 years after the famous drowning).
		Antinous was depicted being carried in the claws of Aquila.
		Antinous carried in the claws of Aquila the Eagle, seen in the Uranographia of Johann Bode (1801).
	www.ianridpath.com /startales/antinous.htm (281 words)

	Antinous the God
		Antinous, the favourite of the Emperor Hadrian, was born in Claudiopolis in Bithynia (northern Greece).
		Antinous was reportedly intelligent and eventually the boy came to be Hadrian's lover and fill the void in Hadrian's emotional life.
		Apart from the statues that were erected to Antinous the god after his death, he became a favourite of Sculptors throughout the ages and his image was represented as many figures from ancient mythology and the inspiration of beauty and the perfection of physique.
	users.bigpond.net.au /bstone/antinous.htm (1417 words)

	On a clear summer night, a star-gazer looking up toward the celestial equator will find the constellation Aquila – ...
		Antinous himself was Greek, a fact which no doubt appealed to Hadrian; he was from Bithynia in Asia Minor, with ancestry probably from Arcadia.
		Antinous was later depicted as assimilated with Osiris or other Egyptian gods, in Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli and at his sacred city of Antinopolis.
		The historical fate of the images of Antinous is itself part of the story; it tells of not only his pagan deification, but also of the eventual damning judgments on his life and his cult by later generations of Christians.
	home.earthlink.net /~delia5/pagan/tcq/artrom-pap1.htm (4066 words)

	The Gods of Eccesia Antinoi
		In this sense, Antinous is like the lost Phallus of Osiris that was never recovered from the Nile, as though it had drowned, lending its fertility to the river mud that inundated the fields and promoted the fecundity of the harvest.
		Antinous was taken from obscurity and placed at the very forefront of the world by Hadrian, the New Zeus, as unpredictable, and as glorious in deeds.
		Antinous has all the characteristics of a fine hound, he was beautiful, refined, strong, masculine, young, virile, full of life, tender, precious, affectionate, moody, emotional, lazy, perhaps ferocious, easily depressed, yet full of joy, and intensely loyal to Hadrian, even to the point of suicide.
	www.antinopolis.org /ecclesiagods.html (3742 words)

	Educative Cylinders for Portable Planetariums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As a constellation, Eridanus is the longest in the sky, meandering from Orion to Cetus.
		Gemini is a zodiacal constellation representing the twin brothers Castor and Pollux.
		This mythological creature was a horned animal with the head and forequarters of a horse, the hindquarters of a stag and the tail of a lion.
	www.educativecylinders.com /manualhevelius.htm (13507 words)

	The Star of Antinous
		Antinous is believed to have been born on November 27th, 111, his birthday was then four days before the Nova, which was 29 days before the millennium.
		Antinous was taken from obscurity and placed at the very forefront of the world by Hadrian, the New Zeus, as unpredictable, and as glorious in deeds as the Father of the Sky.
		The two stars in the constellation Aquila are an image of the gravity that pulls the lover to the Beloved.
	www.antinopolis.org /star.html (2006 words)

	Teotihuacán, Gateway of Gods
		Thus, the constellation of the bull represents the entrance to the underworld of Xibalba.
		It is very important to realize that the Teotihuacán constructions began when Antinous initiated his return up from his lowest position at the equator, and they signify the moment when the feet of the asterism are on the equator as the head crosses the zenith.
		Above the head of Antinous is the locus of intersections for the zenith and galactic plane.
	www.siloam.net /members.aol.com/rex1kids/private/maya1/mexico.htm (2796 words)

	Antinous The God
		The Egyptian priests of Hadrian's court were the first to know that Antinous had become a God as they intoned the chants of deification that called Antinous back from his journey into darkness where he conquered Death, and was lifted up by the thundering feathers of the flaming eagle.
		The Classic beauty of the true Antinous, the exact perfection of His face, and the distinguished ripples of His hair were given over to the Priests of Anubis for eternal preservation.
		The serpent-rod of sublime Gnosis is bestowed on the inner-knowledge of Antinous.
	www.antinopolis.org /god.html (2363 words)

	The Bright Star of an Emperor's Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Antinous, whom Hardrian described as a "virile Athena," was the emperor's constant companion until the young man's death at age twenty.
		Antinous is thought to have sacrificed himself - or to have been sacrificed, some say - by drowning in the Nile.
		He believed the star had been born from the young man's spirit and named it for his love; it was eventually included in the constellation Aquila.
	www.corrystuart.net /cosmic_brightstar.html (227 words)

	antinous
		Antinous was the boy lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and hence is a real character, not a mythological one, although the story reads like fiction.
		The constellation Antinous was mentioned as a sub-division of Aquila by Ptolemy in his Almagest (which was written about 20 years after the famous drowning), and it was first depicted in 1551 on a star globe by Gerardus Mercator.
		Tycho Brahe listed it as a separate constellation in 1602 and it remained widely accepted into the 19th century.
	users.macunlimited.net /ianrid/startales/antinous (263 words)

	AQUILA - Online Information article about AQUILA
		Ptolemy catalogued nineteen stars jointly in this constellation and in the constellation See also:
		Antinous, which was named in the reign of the See also:
		Brahe, who catalogued twelve stars in Aquila and seven in Antinous; See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /APO_ARN/AQUILA.html (247 words)

	Portable Planetariums Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The 88 official constellations chosen by the IAU were all European inventions, not out of cultural imperialism but because those constellations were already well known and used by many professional astronomers.
		Constellation figures disappear entirely, replaced by geometric, “connect-the-dots” type formations that further aid the general public in locating patterns of stars in the sky.
		Constellation (astronomy), in astronomy, any of 88 imagined groupings of bright stars that appear on the celestial sphere (see Ecliptic) and that are named after religious or mythological figures, animals, or objects.
	www.planetarios.com /manualconstelaciones.htm (2270 words)

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		This is the oldest surviving depiction of this set of the original Western constellations, and as such can be a valuable resource for studying their early development.
		(2–4) The constellations of Equuleus, Coma Berenices, and Antinous are not depicted on the globe.
		The constellations in the sky move slowly with respect to the declination circles and the colures, as a result of precession.
	www.phys.lsu.edu /farnese/JHAFarneseProofs.htm (8919 words)

	Adonis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the Citharoedic Hymn to Antinous, the new god is compared to Adonis, one of the most beautiful youths ever to have lived.
		It is perhaps thinking like the latter which suggested that Antinous died as the result of a botched castration, in order to prolong his youthfulness unnaturally, but we can quite certainly dismiss this idea as mere historical fantasy.
		However, continual regeneration, revival from death, and the continuous cycle of life, interpreted from these stories of non-procreative acts between pre-eminent (often mother) goddesses and youthful lovers who die and are revived by those goddesses, seems at least as likely a possibility as the former for the reason that these myths are important.
	www.liminalityland.com /adonis.htm (1844 words)

	Antinous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He had this constellation placed in the sky to honor a favorite youth of his court, who according to myth sacrificed himself in order to prolong the life of the emperor.
		Later astronomers recognized this constellation as the youth Ganymede, who the Greek god Zeus had brought to Olympus by his eagle Aquila, in order to serve as cup-bearer to the gods.
		The stars of this constellation have since been given to the constellation of Aquila.
	www.pa.msu.edu /people/horvatin/Astronomy_Facts/obsolete_pages/antinous.htm (92 words)

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		Note that new constellations have been inserted: the ``Telescope of Herschel'' in honor of William Herschel the discoverer of Uranus; the ``Harp of George'' in honor of maybe George III---actually it doesn't seem likely that a king would find honor in Paris in 1795---maybe it's George Washington's harp: I never knew he played.
		Antinous was the young friend of the Roman emperor Hadrian.
		Although Ophiuchus is not in a constellation of the Zodiac, his feet extend down to the Ecliptic and a triple conjunction of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn coincided with the Nova.
	www.physics.unlv.edu /~jeffery/astro/constellation/linda_hall.html (587 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Aquila the Eagle
		The constellation’s southern stars formerly constituted a separate constellation, Antinous named by the Emperor Hadrian in the year 132.
		Antinous was a favourite of the Emperor, who drowned himself in the mistaken belief that to do so would extend his masters life.
		It is the twelfth brightest star in the sky at a magnitude of -0.77 and has a very rapid axial spin completing one revolution every 6.5 hours which causes it to deform into an oblate sphere and distort its spectral line signature.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1085898 (689 words)

	TABULA FERIARUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She is specifically named on the Obelisk of Antinous, as well as in some of the district names of the city of Antinoopolis, thus the evidence for her importance in the historical Antinous cult and its constellation with the Imperial Cult is certain.
		Further, Antinous' homeland of Bithynia, where all of these hunts took place, was a colony founded by Arcadians, and the Arcadians trace their roots back to Arcas (whose name means "bear"), son of Callisto, who was a beloved of Artemis, and became the constellation Ursa Major.
		Antinous, mindful of his observations of the rites of Magna Mater, turns his attention to these things, and takes refuge in the meditations on this happy fall and the coming redemption.
	www.liminalityland.com /tabulaferiarum.htm (7191 words)

	The Lunar Planner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Antinous articulates the theme of consenting self-sacrifice based upon blind love toward an authoritarian and the naive assumptions of oracular information.
		Antinous’ self-sacrifice was based upon the oracle at Beza’s information that only the death of that which the emperor most loved would avert a dangerous threat to the emperor’s life.
		The placement of this constellation under the first decan of sidereal Capricorn, alludes to why government installations are often found on sacred (Native Indian) land.
	www.lunarplanner.com /LunarMonths2004/lunarmonth.04.01.21.html (2969 words)

	AQUILA - LoveToKnow Article on AQUILA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		AQUILA, in astronomy, the " Eagle," sometimes named the " Vulture," a constellation of the northern hemisphere, mentioned by Eudoxus (4th cent.
		Ptolemy catalogued nineteen stars jointly in this constellation and in the constellation Antinous, which was named in the reign of the emperor Hadrian (A.D. 117-138), but sometimes, and wrongly, attributed to Tycho Brahe, who catalogued twelve stars in Aquila and seven in Antinous; Hevelius determined twenty-three stars in the first, and nineteen in the second.
		The most brilliant star of this constellation, a-Aquilae or Altair, has a parallax of 0-23", and consequently is about eight times as bright as the sun; ri-Aquilae is a short-period variable, while Nova Aquilae is a " temporary " or " new " star, discovered by Mrs Fleming of Harvard in 1899.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AQ/AQUILA.htm (626 words)

	Charles Messier's Original Catalog of 1771
		That nebula didn't appear to me to contain any star, although I have examined it with a good Gregorian telescope which magnified 104 times: it is round, and one sees it very well with an ordinary [non-achromatic] refractor of 3 feet and a half; its diameter is about 6 minutes of arc.
		I have determined its position with regard to the star o of Antinous, its right ascension is 278d 5' 25", and its declination 9d 38' 14" south.
		With an ordinary [non-achromatic] refractor of 3 feet and a half, one has difficulty to distinguish these small stars; but when employing a stronger instrument, one sees them very well; they don't contain between them any nebulosity: their extension is about 9 minutes of arc.
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/history/m-cat71.html (5399 words)

	Aquila The Eagle
		The seduction of Ganymedes is symbolized by these two constellations in the sky, Aquila and Aquarius.
		The constellation is said to have been introduced to the sky in the year 132 by the Emperor Hadrian in honor of Antinous who was a youth of extraordinary beauty, born in Bithynia, and was the favorite of the Emperor Hadrian.
		Antinous is said to have drowned himself in the Nile in the belief that the Emperor's life would thereby be prolonged, so strong was his love.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Aquila.html (3632 words)

	Book Of THoTH - Forums - Divination - Some Basic Facts about the Constellations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Great attention was paid to the Orion constellation for example and the helical rising of Sirius (in the Canis Major constellation) which was the herald of the new Egyptian year as well as marking the time of the time of the annual flooding of the Nile.
		Every constellation in the sky is associated with a mythology and a set of archetypal energies based on that mythology.
		The precession of the equinoxes means that because of the way the Earth rotates on her axis the constellations have ‘slipped’ from their original position and are no longer in the same place they were originally.
	www.book-of-thoth.com /ftopict-1298.html (3765 words)

	Deneb Okab.
		Although this star was always part of Aquila, for a time it was also once part of the constellation of Antinous along with eta and sigma, theta, iota, kappa, lamda, upsilon, all now in Aquila.
		This was because the oracle at Beza had asserted that only by the death of the object which the emperor most loved could great danger to the latter be averted.
		Delta (Deneb Okab), eta and theta, of 3rd to 4th magnitudes, in Antinous, were Al Mizan, the "Scale-beam", of early Arabia, from their similar direction and nearly equal distances apart.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/DenebOkab.html (497 words)

	Gay Astronomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Labyris was also the symbol of the Greek goddess of the harvest, Demeter, and lesbian sex in fact formed part of her worship rituals, so there is a gay female connection with the constellation of Virgo, which represents Demeter, the goddess depicted in the sky holding an ear of wheat in her hand.
		The constellation of Aquarius represents our old friend Ganymedes once again, depicted in the sky pouring liquid from a jar, though the nature of the jar's contents depends on the version you choose.
		One has him pouring water for the benefit of the drought-stricken peoples of the Earth, but, for those who prefer a somewhat stronger brew, he is also seen in his role as bartender of Mount Olympus, pouring not water but golden nectar and wine for the gods in general and his lover Zeus in particular.
	barry_stone.tripod.com /gay_astronomy.htm (2080 words)

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