subject: Hermes and Antinous [print this page] A personal name that is a combined theophoric name, Hermantinous, is attested in Egyptian papyri. The syncretic deity, Hermanubis, is also attested with Antinosiris in the only painted image from the ancient world depicting Antinous, from a tondo found in Antinopolis that may have been the burial tableau for two male lovers dedicated to Antinosiris and Hermanubis.
Hermes handbags is a psychopomp, and Antinous seems to function in that capacity in, for example, an inscription from Mantineia in which a couple's dead son is entrusted to Antinous' care after death. Hermes as messenger of the gods and carrier of prayers also seems to be in operation in the Obelisk of Antinous, in which Antinous is functioning as the supplicant before Re-Harakhte on behalf of Hadrian and Sabina. Hermes bagswas also known to have various male lovers, including (in the work of Ptolemy Chennos, who wrote during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian, and whose work only survives in an epitome from Photios' Bibliotheke) Polydeukes, the "immortal" brother in the Dioskouroi.
Hermes is often invoked in Graeco-Egyptian love-spells, and a number of these that involve homoeroticism (particularly amongst lesbians) invoke him. Hermes handbags and Antinous, therefore, might be one of the most functionally important syncretisms in the wider Antinoan sphere. The fact that Hermes Logios is the patron of words and of magic as well also seems appropriate to the fact that we primarily know that syncretism of the god through words, whether on papyrus or on inscriptions.
Therefore, Khairete and Ave and Dua to Hermes, and to Antinous, his sonthe New Hermes
