Or the syncretism with Osiris, the Egyptian God of the afterlife and of the Nile in which Antinous drowned. Consider the syncretism of Antinous with Pan, a God intimately connected to the former’s homeland of Bithynia. However, these were not random syncretisms there is a pattern, an internal logic to these associations. Even difficult-to-identify Deities such as Men and heroes such as Achilles. From his deification in the second century CE though the (known) end of his worship in the fifth century, Antinous was equated, merged and associated with Deities as varied as the Greek Apollon and Hermes, Attis of Asia Minor, Osiris of Egypt, and the Roman Vertumnus.
With this definition at the fore, Lupus sets out to examine The Syncretisms of Antinous. However, unlike eclecticism, syncretism is usually done in a deliberate, non-random fashion, with an overarching purpose or thematic program in mind.” “Syncretism is the blending or combination of different religious ideas or different divine figures into hybrid or composite forms. In this first volume of the new Red Lotus Library, the publishing arm of the Ekklesía Antínoou, P Sufenas Virius Lupus sets out to correct misapprehensions and misconceptions about syncretism by clearly defining it, examining it, and offering examples of the many - and even unexpected - syncretisms of the God Antinous.
ISBN : 1456300458 / 978-1456300456It is unfortunate that “syncretism” is something of a dirty word in some contemporary Pagan circles.
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