Gender variance in spirituality: Difference between revisions
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* '''Iravan''' (Iravat, Iravant, Aravan), patron of hijra. | * '''Iravan''' (Iravat, Iravant, Aravan), patron of hijra. | ||
* '''Samba''', who became a woman and gave birth | * '''Samba''', who became a woman and gave birth | ||
* '''Shakti''' or '''Sakti''', the deity personification of cosmic energy.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti</ref> Shakti is commonly referred to in feminine terms, yet in ''Mahakalistotra'' Shakti is described as "neither female nor male nor [[hermaphrodite]]" and in ''Nava Ratneshwar '' Shakti is described as "neither female nor male, nor [[neuter]]".<ref>{{cite book|title=Proceedings Of The Convention Of Religions In India Vol. 2|page=147|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39759/page/n217/mode/2up?q=%22neither+female+nor+male%22 |chapter=Shaktaism.|year=1910}}</ref> | |||
* '''Shikhandi''' (Śikhaṇḍī, Shikandi, Srikhandi), a warrior in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, who was born a girl and lived as a man. He was destined for military victory. He married a woman, but she rejected him when she found out that he was a trans man. Shikhandi contemplated responding to this with suicide,<ref>http://www.mahabharataonline.com/stories/mahabharata_character.php?id=94 </ref> but instead made himself fully physically male by trading his sex with Sthunakarna,<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaksha_Kingdom</ref> a forest spirit (a ''yaksha'') who wanted to become a woman.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikhandi</ref> | * '''Shikhandi''' (Śikhaṇḍī, Shikandi, Srikhandi), a warrior in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, who was born a girl and lived as a man. He was destined for military victory. He married a woman, but she rejected him when she found out that he was a trans man. Shikhandi contemplated responding to this with suicide,<ref>http://www.mahabharataonline.com/stories/mahabharata_character.php?id=94 </ref> but instead made himself fully physically male by trading his sex with Sthunakarna,<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaksha_Kingdom</ref> a forest spirit (a ''yaksha'') who wanted to become a woman.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikhandi</ref> | ||
===Buddhism=== | ===Buddhism=== | ||