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==== Gender variant figures in African and African diaspora religions ==== | ==== Gender variant figures in African and African diaspora religions ==== | ||
[[File:Pombagira Rainha.JPG|thumb|A statue representation of Pomba Gira, an Afro-Brazilian spirit associated with [[trans women]] | [[File:Pombagira Rainha.JPG|thumb|A statue representation of Pomba Gira, an Afro-Brazilian spirit associated with [[trans women]], effeminate men, [[drag]] queens, and [[crossdresser]]s.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomba_Gira</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pomba Gira |author=Ferre, Lux |work=Occult World |date=30 July 2017 |access-date=27 March 2022 |url= https://occult-world.com/pomba-gira/ }}</ref>]] | ||
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* '''Ataa Naa Nyomo''' or '''Ataa-Naa-Nyomo''' is the deity worshipped by the Ga people of Ghana and is considered both female and male.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Masculine Women, Feminist Men: Assertions and Contradictions in Mawugbe's In the Chest of a Woman |journal=Theatre History Studies |date=2010 |volume=30 |author=Awo Mana Asiedu |doi=10.1353/ths.2010.0030}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=Africa in Contemporary Perspective : A Textbook for Undergraduate Students |page=156 |date=2013}}</ref> | * '''Ataa Naa Nyomo''' or '''Ataa-Naa-Nyomo''' is the deity worshipped by the Ga people of Ghana and is considered both female and male.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Masculine Women, Feminist Men: Assertions and Contradictions in Mawugbe's In the Chest of a Woman |journal=Theatre History Studies |date=2010 |volume=30 |author=Awo Mana Asiedu |doi=10.1353/ths.2010.0030}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=Africa in Contemporary Perspective : A Textbook for Undergraduate Students |page=156 |date=2013}}</ref> | ||
* '''Baron Samedi''', a dandy who sometimes wears a combination of masculine and feminine clothing at the same time{{citation needed}} | * '''Baron Samedi''', a dandy who sometimes wears a combination of masculine and feminine clothing at the same time{{citation needed}} | ||
* '''Ghede Nibo''', feminine | * '''Ghede Nibo''' (also known as '''Gedé Nibo''', '''Gedé Nimbo''', '''Guede Nibo''' or '''Gedé Ninbo''') A figure in Haitian Vodou. Formerly human until he was killed and became a Lwa (spirit).<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guede_Nibo</ref> He is a healer, leader of the dead, and guardian of children. "Gedé Nibo straddles the borders between death and life, sex and death, and between genders, too. Nibo may wear mixed feminine and masculine attire. A witty trickster with an eye for a joke, he is simultaneously macho and feminine." He has been described as pansexual, transgender, and homoerotic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gedé Nibo |author=Ferre, Lux |work=Occult World |date=13 November 2017 |access-date=27 March 2022 |url= https://occult-world.com/gede-nibo/}}</ref> | ||
* '''Obatala''' (in Brazil: '''Oxala''', in Haiti: '''Blanc-Dani'''), both male and female. Creator of humankind. Depending on the story, gave birth to humans by self-fertilizing, or by dividing into a man and woman.{{citation needed}} | * '''Obatala''' (in Brazil: '''Oxala''', in Haiti: '''Blanc-Dani'''), both male and female. Creator of humankind. Depending on the story, gave birth to humans by self-fertilizing, or by dividing into a man and woman.{{citation needed}} | ||
* '''Olokun'''. In the religion of Santeria, Olokun is a deity of the ocean possessing both sets of genitals, "who wears very long hair and who lives in the depths of the ocean floor with a great retinue of mermaids and tritons."<ref>Migene Gonzalez-Wippler, Santeria: African magic in Latin America, p. 26.</ref> | * '''Olokun'''. In the religion of Santeria, Olokun is a deity of the ocean possessing both sets of genitals, "who wears very long hair and who lives in the depths of the ocean floor with a great retinue of mermaids and tritons."<ref>Migene Gonzalez-Wippler, Santeria: African magic in Latin America, p. 26.</ref> | ||
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* '''Mwari''', also known as '''Musikavanhu''', '''Musiki''', '''Tenzi''' and '''Ishe''', is the Supreme Creator deity according to Shona traditional religion. Although missionary Bible translations gendered Mwari as male, the Shona understood Mwari as being both male and female, or else neither male nor female.<ref>Obvious Vengeyi, 'The Bible in the Service of Pan-Africanism', in ''The Bible and Politics in Africa'', ed. M. Gunda and J. Kugler (University of Bamburg Press, 2012), pp. 85-6. </ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The God of the Matopo Hills: An Essay on the Mwari Cult in Rhodesia|last=Daneel|first=Marthinus L.|publisher=Mouton & Co.|year=1970|location=The Hague, Netherlands|pages=16}}</ref> | * '''Mwari''', also known as '''Musikavanhu''', '''Musiki''', '''Tenzi''' and '''Ishe''', is the Supreme Creator deity according to Shona traditional religion. Although missionary Bible translations gendered Mwari as male, the Shona understood Mwari as being both male and female, or else neither male nor female.<ref>Obvious Vengeyi, 'The Bible in the Service of Pan-Africanism', in ''The Bible and Politics in Africa'', ed. M. Gunda and J. Kugler (University of Bamburg Press, 2012), pp. 85-6. </ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The God of the Matopo Hills: An Essay on the Mwari Cult in Rhodesia|last=Daneel|first=Marthinus L.|publisher=Mouton & Co.|year=1970|location=The Hague, Netherlands|pages=16}}</ref> | ||
* '''Nana-Buluku''', in Fon tradition, is creator of the world, a god both male and female. This Creator gave birth to the sun (male Liza) and moon (female Mawu).{{citation needed}} | * '''Nana-Buluku''', in Fon tradition, is creator of the world, a god both male and female. This Creator gave birth to the sun (male Liza) and moon (female Mawu).{{citation needed}} | ||
* '''Pomba Gira''', | * '''Pomba Gira''', an Afro-Brazilian spirit associated with [[trans women]], effeminate men, [[drag]] queens, and [[crossdresser]]s.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomba_Gira</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pomba Gira |author=Ferre, Lux |work=Occult World |date=30 July 2017 |access-date=27 March 2022 |url= https://occult-world.com/pomba-gira/ }}</ref> Might be the female version of Legba.{{citation needed}} | ||
* '''Vondu''', a god both male and female{{citation needed}} | * '''Vondu''', a god both male and female{{citation needed}} | ||