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<p>Importing a new version from external source</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;section begin=GallaeStats /&gt;<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Name of identity:&#039;&#039;&#039; Gallae. Contemporaries who were not Gallae called them by masculine words, Galloi or Galli (plural), or Gallus (singular). Some historians interpret the Gallae as transgender, by modern terms, and think they would have called themselves by the feminine Gallae (plural) and Galla (singular).&lt;ref&gt;Kirsten Cronn-Mills, &#039;&#039;Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices&#039;&#039; (2014, {{ISBN|0761390227}}), page 39&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Teresa Hornsby, Deryn Guest, &#039;&#039;Transgender, Intersex and Biblical Interpretation&#039;&#039; (2016, {{ISBN|0884141551}}), page 47&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name=&quot;seabrook gallae about&quot;&gt;Laura Anne Seabrook, &quot;About this comic.&quot; &#039;&#039;Tales of the Gallae.&#039;&#039; http://totg-mirror.thecomicseries.com/about/&lt;/ref&gt; The Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) says their name comes from the Gallus river in Phrygia;&lt;ref&gt;Maarten J. Vermaseren, &#039;&#039;Cybele and Attis: the myth and the cult&#039;&#039;, translated by A. M. H. Lemmers, London: Thames and Hudson, 1977, p.85, referencing Ovid, &#039;&#039;Fasti&#039;&#039; IV.9&lt;/ref&gt; &quot;gallus&quot; itself means chicken or rooster.<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Culture:&#039;&#039;&#039; Originally Phrygia (where Turkey is today, part of Asia Minor).<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Era:&#039;&#039;&#039; 2,300 years ago&lt;ref name=&quot;kaldera 174&quot;&gt;Raven Kaldera. &#039;&#039;Hermaphrodeities: The Transgender Spirituality Workbook.&#039;&#039; Hubbardston, Massachusetts: Asphodel Press, 2008. P. 174-179.&lt;/ref&gt; to 6th century CE. Revived in the modern day by some Pagan transgender people who consider themselves Gallae.&lt;ref name=&quot;seabrook gallae about&quot; /&gt;<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Description of sex/gender:&#039;&#039;&#039; AMAB and feminine eunuchs. They may have been what modern people would consider a gender outside the Western binary, or else trans women.<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Role in society:&#039;&#039;&#039; Priesthood. The Gallae were priests of the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her consort Attis.&lt;ref name=&quot;kaldera 174&quot; /&gt; They were believed to have spiritual powers to tell the future, bless homes, have power over wild animals, bring rain, and exorcise evil spirits.&lt;ref name=&quot;Maarten J. Vermaseren 1977, p.97&quot;&gt;Maarten J. Vermaseren, &#039;&#039;Cybele and Attis: the myth and the cult&#039;&#039;, translated by A. M. H. Lemmers, London: Thames and Hudson, 1977, p.97.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name=&quot;kaldera 174&quot; /&gt;<br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Demographics:&#039;&#039;&#039; Unknown. In the 2019 Worldwide Gender Census, no respondents called themselves Gallae or any other form of that word.&lt;ref name=&quot;2019 Gender Census&quot; /&gt; <br /> &lt;section end=GallaeStats /&gt;</div>

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