A Serpent Path Primer

by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus

An exploration of the Serpent Path, the Ekklesia Antinoou's theological system and spiritual methodology for mapping the syncretisms of Antinous, opening a divine window into further relationship with him and the deities and heroes to whom he is linked. Included in the volume is an in-depth examination of syncretism, both historically and in its most fruitful modern polytheist understandings, and nine Appendices with material ranging from spells and rituals to poems related to the Serpent Path, its usage, and its results.

202 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus is a metagender person, and one of the founding members of the Ekklesía Antínoou–a queer, Graeco-Roman-Egyptian syncretist reconstructionist polytheist group dedicated to Antinous, the deified lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, and related deities and divine figures–as well as a contributing member of Neos Alexandria and a practicing Celtic Reconstructionist pagan in the traditions of gentlidecht and filidecht, as well as Romano-British, Welsh, and Gaulish deity devotions. Lupus is also dedicated to several land spirits around the area of North Puget Sound and its islands.

(text taken from eir blog)

Reviews

[Edward Butler · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very important book, first for its incisive and accessible discussion of syncretism, in the essay "Super-Syncretism: Creating Connection and Preserving Diversity", and secondly, perhaps more so, for the exercise of theological arithmetic in its "Serpent Path Manifesto", which demonstrates a method of formalizing relations between deities in a given pantheon and potencies within a given deity which, if others could get the knack of it, and apply it within their own pantheons--I don't mean mechanically apply Sufenas's results, but organically developing the logic internal to their own pantheons--the results would be very exciting.