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    ==Gender-variant deities, saints, and spirits, organized by what they are patrons of==
    In many spiritual traditions, one directs one's prayers or other spiritual practices to an entity who is the patron of the particular issue in concern. For example, if one is praying for healing of an illness, one prays to a deity who is a patron of healing, or even a patron of the specific illness. One often finds that certain genders of deities tend to be patrons of certain concerns, linked with common cultural symbolic associations of gender roles. For example, patrons of the sun tend to be male, and patrons of the moon tend to be female. However, it is possible to find deities, saints, and spirits who preside over virtually any concern who are themselves gender-variant, or at least who have a strong connection to gender-variant people. See above for further information about any of the gender-variant deities, saints, and spirits listed below.
    '''Abuse victims and survivors:'''
    * Joan of Arc, Saint <ref name="JoanMedals">https://catholicsaintmedals.com/saints/st-joan-of-arc/</ref>
    * Wilgefortis, Saint
    '''Actors:'''
    * Lan Caihe
    '''Agriculture:'''
    * Inari
    '''Air, wind, sky:'''
    * Changing Woman
    * Janus (the heavens)
    * Zeus Arrhenothelus
    '''Alcohol'''
    * Dionysus
    '''Alcohol, abstaining from:'''
    (See sobriety)
    '''Animals:'''
    * Aphroditus
    * Bahuchara Mata
    * Coyote
    * Cybele (of all animals, but especially lions)
    * Huehuecoyotl
    * Kyprioth (of crows)
    '''Archery:'''
    * Neith
    '''Arts:'''
    (See also: “crafts,” “music and poetry”)
    '''Asexuality:'''
    (For the sexual orientation marked by a lack of sexual attraction, see “celibacy…” as patrons of celibates will likely also be sympathetic to asexuality.)
    (For the intersex condition marked by a lack of sexual organs, see “intersex people.”)
    '''Battle and war:'''
    * Athena Promachos
    * He'e
    * Joan of Arc, Saint
    * Neith
    '''Beauty:'''
    * Adonis
    * Erzulie Freda
    '''Beggars:'''
    * Lan Caihe
    '''Beginnings:'''
    * Janus
    '''Birth:'''
    * Cybele
    * Hercules
    * Janus
    '''Bridges:'''
    * Janus
    '''Celibacy, chastity, virginity, people who are single by choice (and possibly asexual and aromantic):'''
    * Athena (specifically her warrior maiden aspect, Athena Parthenos)
    * Bahuchara Mata
    * Wilgefortis, Saint
    '''Change:'''
    * Janus
    '''Children:'''
    * Erzulie Freda
    * Hercules
    * Kwanyin
    '''Cities:'''
    * Athena Polias
    '''Civilization:'''
    * Athena
    '''Compassion:'''
    * Kwanyin
    '''Crafts:'''
    (See also: “weaving”)
    * Athena
    * Enki
    '''Creation:'''
    * Obatala
    '''Cross-dressing:'''
    * Aphroditus
    * Dionysus
    '''Crossroads:'''
    * Legba (Ellegua) 
    * Pomba Gira
    '''Dance:'''
    * Huehuecoyotl
    '''Death:'''
    * Dionysus
    * Ghede Nibo
    * Janus
    * Neith
    * Obatala
    * Odin
    * Osiris
    '''Disabled people:'''
    (See also: “mentally ill people.”)
    * Kwanyin
    '''Domestic abuse victims and survivors:'''
    * Wilgefortis, Saint
    '''Drag queens:'''
    * Pomba Gira
    '''Earth'''
    * Baphomet
    * Tatenen
    '''Eunuchs:'''
    * Shiva as Ardhanari
    * Bahuchara Mata
    * Cybele
    * Samba
    '''Family:'''
    * Ardhanarisvara
    '''Fertility:'''
    (see also "harvest")
    * Aphroditus
    * Bahuchara Mata
    * Cybele
    * Dionysus
    * Enki
    * Hapi
    * Hermaphroditus
    * Janus (conception and birth)
    * Phanes
    * Kwanyin
    * Wadj-Wer
    '''Fire:'''
    * Loki
    '''Flowers and florists:'''
    * Erzulie Freda
    * Lan Caihe
    '''Fortune telling, omens of the future:'''
    * Janus
    '''Gateways and doorways:'''
    *Janus
    '''Gay men:'''
    (See also: “lesbian women,” “love,” “marriage,” “sexuality.”)
    * Aphrodite Urania
    * Ardhanarisvara
    * Erzulie Freda
    '''Harvest:'''
    (see also "fertility")
    '''Hair:'''
    * Wilgefortis, Saint (of facial hair)
    '''Hunting:'''
    * Neith
    '''Humankind:'''
    * Obatala
    '''Illness (warding against):'''
    * Kwanyin
    '''Intelligence:'''
    * Athena
    * Baphomet
    * Enki
    * Odin
    '''Impotence:'''
    (See also: “celibacy,” “fertility,” “sterile women.”)
    * Bahuchara Mata
    '''Intersex people:'''
    * Ardhanarisvara
    * Bahuchara Mata
    * Changing Woman
    * Enki
    * Turquoise Boy
    '''Jupiter (planet):'''
    * Zeus Arrhenothelus
    '''Law and justice:'''
    * Athena
    '''Lesbian women:'''
    (See also: “gay men,” “love,” “marriage,” “sexuality,” “women.”)
    * Erzulie Dantor
    '''Liminal spaces:'''
    (Including middle grounds between different places, phases, or concepts)
    * Janus
    '''Love:'''
    * Aphrodite Urania
    * Erzulie Freda
    '''Marriage:'''
    * Ardhanarisvara
    * Hermaphroditus
    * Neith
    '''Martyrs:'''
    * Joan of Arc, Saint
    '''Mathematics:'''
    * Athena
    '''Mentally ill people:'''
    (See also: “disabled people.”)
    * Kwanyin
    * Lan Caihe
    '''Mercury (planet):'''
    * Enki
    * Odin
    '''Mothers:'''
    * Ardhanarisvara
    * Cybele
    * Kwanyin
    * Leto
    '''Moon:'''
    * Aphroditus
    * Janus
    * Mylitta
    * Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto
    * Venus Barbata
    * White Shell Girl
    '''Mountains:'''
    * Cybele
    '''Mirrors:'''
    * Ishi Kore Dome No Kami
    '''Music and poetry:'''
    * Huehuecoyotl
    * Lan Caihe
    * Odin
    '''New Year:'''
    * Janus
    '''Nurturing:'''
    (See also: “compassion,” “love.”)
    * Aphroditus
    '''Philosophy:'''
    * Athena
    '''Piety (patron of those ridiculed for tier piety):'''
    * Joan of Arc, Saint<ref name="JoanMedals" />
    '''Plants and trees:'''
    * Agdistis (of almond and pomegranate)
    * Aphroditus
    * Dionysus (of fig)
    '''Pregnancy:'''
    (See also “birth”, “fertility”, and "mothers")
    * Bahuchara Mata
    '''Prisoners:'''
    * Joan of Arc, Saint
    '''Psychic abilities:'''
    * Odin
    '''Rape survivors:'''
    * Joan of Arc, Saint<ref name="JoanMedals" />
    '''Sailors:'''
    * Kwanyin
    '''Sexuality:'''
    * Ardhanarisvara
    * Baphomet
    * Hermaphroditus
    * Pomba Gira
    * Aphrodite Urania (Venus Barbata)
    '''Sex workers:'''
    * Aphrodite Urania (Venus Barbata)
    * Inanna (Ishtar)
    '''Sheperds:'''
    * Pales
    '''Singles:'''
    (See “Celibacy” or "Love")
    '''Sobriety:'''
    * Obatala
    '''Soldiers:'''
    * Joan of Arc, Saint<ref name="JoanMedals" />
    '''Sterile women:'''
    (See also: “celibacy” and “fertility”)
    * Enki
    '''Stone cutters:'''
    * Ishi Kore Dome No Kami
    '''Sun:'''
    * Janus
    * Turquoise Boy
    '''Time:'''
    * Janus
    '''Transgender people of any kind:'''
    (including third-gender groups such as two-spirits)
    (See also: transgender men, transgender women)
    * Ardhanarisvara
    * Enki
    * Kyprioth
    '''Transgender men:'''
    (including trans masculine third-gender groups, and people assigned female at birth who assume a male role, and/or pass as male)
    (See also: men)
    * Athena
    * Ardhanarisvara
    * Enki
    * Eugene, Saint
    * Joan of Arc, Saint
    * Kyprioth
    * Leto
    * Marinus, Saint
    '''Transgender women:'''
    (including trans feminine third-gender groups such as hijras)
    (See also: women)
    * Ardhanarisvara
    * Bahuchara Mata
    * Cybele
    * Enki
    * Kyprioth
    * Samba
    * Shiva as Ardhanari
    '''Transition:'''
    * Janus
    '''Trickery and tricksters:'''
    * Coyote
    * Kyprioth
    * Legba (Ellegua)
    * Loki
    * Pales
    '''Vegetarianism:'''
    * Bahuchara Mata
    * Kwanyin
    '''Venus (planet):'''
    * Inanna
    * Kwanyin
    * Venus Barbata
    '''War:'''
    (See “battle and war”)
    '''Water and water bodies:'''
    * Enki
    * Hapi
    * Neith
    * Kwanyin
    * Obatala
    * Wadj-wer
    '''Weaving:'''
    * Athena
    * Neith
    '''Weddings:'''
    (See marriage)
    '''Wilderness and nature:'''
    * Cybele
    * Dionysus
    '''Wisdom:'''
    (See “Intelligence and wisdom”)
    '''Women:'''
    (See also: lesbian women, transgender women)
    * Cybele
    * Erzulie Freda
    * Kwanyin
    * Neith


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