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Gender-variant deities and patrons of gender variance in Levant spiritualities: | Gender-variant deities and patrons of gender variance in Levant spiritualities: | ||
* '''Enki''', a Sumerian male god and creator. He has been referenced to have both male and female aspects, but these seem to largely relate to fertility, or his place in a per-patriarchal society. | * '''Enki''', a Sumerian male god and creator. He has been referenced to have both male and female aspects, but these seem to largely relate to fertility, or his place in a per-patriarchal society. | ||
* '''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> | * '''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>{{Cite web |title=A hymn to Inana (Inana C): translation |work=The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature |date= |access-date=7 September 2021 |url= https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4073.htm}}</ref> | ||
* '''Zurvan''', a Zoroastrian primal deity of time who is grammatically represented as genderless. | * '''Zurvan''', a Zoroastrian primal deity of time who is grammatically represented as genderless. | ||