🪷 (Juno art by #AntoniusSubia) ... December 13th is the feast of Juno Lucina, #Juno the Light Bringer, who has been christianised as St. Lucy. Near the Winter Solstice, this is one of the festivals which encourages the light of the Sun to rekindle and return to warm the Earth. 🪷
Flamen #AntoniusSubia points out that even the curve of the lips is enough to allow an art historian to identify a statue as being that of #Antinous the Gay God ... no other classical statue has these sensuously pouting lips.