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11 May 2019
Slightly reworded the introduction.
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...And removing my "work-in-progress" banner.
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Reorganized article. Abrahamic section moved out from under "Asia" heading; its global spread makes it less helpful to categorize by region first. New sub-headings reflect that each entry should also discuss views *about* gender-variance, in addition to gender-variant figures. Removed the lists "Gender-variant deities ... organized by what they are patrons of" & "...organized by their sex and/or gender," which will be moved to a spin-off article.
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→Abrahamic religions: Added more content and sources for Judaism and Christianity in particular. Added a section on gender variance in the Christian Bible. Preparing to reorganize the rest of the article's headings, and to create a spin-off article going into more depth about gender variance in Christianity.
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10 May 2019
Sekhet moved page Gender Divergence in Religion to Gender variance in spirituality over redirect: The new title "Gender Divergence in Religion" didn't reflect the article's content as well as the old title, "gender variance in spirituality," for the following reasons. 1. The new title was inappropriately capitalized as if it was the name of a person or place. 2. Gender variance is the preferred term over gender divergence. 3. The content of the article is not necessarily about organiz...
mI had a work in progress that I've been building privately for the past month for this article, and will post it live when it's complete.
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9 May 2019
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MorningSparrow moved page Gender variance in spirituality to Gender Divergence in Religion: Better reflect the content of the page
mDeleted some venus epithets, as they only had post-classical sources. Edited intro, Changed title
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8 May 2019
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→Gender-variant deities, saints, and spirits, organized by what they are patrons of
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→Greco-Roman religions
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→Greco-Roman religions: Deleted deities with no reference to gender variance. moves Iphis to this section, as the story is roman. Expanded on Pales
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→Gender-variant deities, saints, and spirits, organized by what they are patrons of: deleting deities no longer on the list
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→Australia and Oceania: deleted bathala and ta-aroa, as there are no sources on their androgyny.
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→Levant spiritualities
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→Hindu and Buddhist religions: Expanded on purusha, deleted brahman, as this is a concept and not a deity
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→Ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) religion: Deleted Ra, Set, and Osiris, as castration is not inherently gender variant in deities. Expanded on Hapi, Shai, Tatenen, and Wadj-wer. Deleted the Isis section, to be moved.
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→Gender-variant deities, saints, and spirits, organized by what they are patrons of: Deleted deities no longer on the list. deleted unnecessary sections.
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→Gay men: deleted aphrodite urania, as she has nothing to do with gay men
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→Disabled people: added dionysus
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→Greco-Roman religions: separated venus and aphrodite, as they are distinctly different deities. Deleted the section on Athena, given her being a warrior is not gender variance. Deleted Hermathena as "Herms" are a statue and do notate a deity. Deleted Phanes, as no evidence of gender variance exists.Deleted "Zeus Arrhenothelus" as my research suggested the epithet is of modern gnostic origin, not greek.
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7 May 2019
→Greco-Roman religions: deleted adonis, any references to femininity are referring to beauty, seen as a feminine trait.Edited aphrodite section
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→Levant spiritualities: Updated Enki, deleted Mylitta due to lack of evidence, expanded on Zurvan
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→Levant spiritualities: changed to "Levant Spiritualities" to better reflect the deities featured and their region. Expanded on the inanna section. Added source.
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→Gender nonconforming Christian saints: removed the section on joan of arc due to lack of sources
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→Gender variant figures in Abrahamic religion: edited out slur, rephrased
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23 March 2019
→Gender-variant figures from spirituality, organized by their sex and/or gender
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Differentiated that one section is organized by region. Added a section about fictional spirituaities.
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Added section: Gender-variant figures from spirituality, organized by their sex and/or gender
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→Gender-variant deities, saints, and spirits, organized by what they are patrons of
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Added a big section about patrons.
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24 February 2019
Moved the entry about Baphomet to the section for European figures.
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→Asia: More pictures from Wikimedia Commons.
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→Greco-Roman religions
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→Greco-Roman religions: Buildgallery.
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7 February 2019
30 December 2018
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16 December 2018
formatting for the content warning
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move ref after punctuation mark
madding source for the Six Genders of Classical Judaism
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