Gender variance in spirituality: Difference between revisions
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Gender-variant deities and patrons of gender variance in other Southwest Asian spiritualities: | Gender-variant deities and patrons of gender variance in other Southwest Asian spiritualities: | ||
* '''Enki''', a Sumerian male god, creator and patron of several kinds of intersex, transgender, and gender nonconforming people, and of their gender roles. | * '''Enki''', a Sumerian male god, creator and patron of several kinds of intersex, transgender, and gender nonconforming people, and of their gender roles. | ||
* '''Inanna''', a Sumerian goddess who was described in some hymns as both male and female, and whose worship included ritual cross-dressing | * '''Inanna''', a Sumerian goddess who was described in some hymns as both male and female, and whose worship included ritual cross-dressing. Some more recent translations indicate that "ritual cross dressing" might have been mistranslated, the passages instead referring to a sect of trans priestesses. She was also indicated to have domain over transitioning gender, "To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inana." <ref> [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4073.htm] </ref> | ||
* '''Mylitta''', Babylonian, depicted as both male and female | * '''Mylitta''', Babylonian, depicted as both male and female | ||
* '''Zurvan''', a Zoroastrian primal androgyne | * '''Zurvan''', a Zoroastrian primal androgyne | ||