teashoesandhair:

pagan101:

do you know of any deities where their gender is either ambiguous, nonexistent, or changes often? thank you!

—queerpropaganda

• Agdistis – A two-sexed deity who castrated herself. (Greek, Anatolian)
• Dionysus – Dionysus is often described as androgynous. (Greek)
• Hermaphroditus – Hermaphroditus is two-sexed and the origin for the word Hermaphrodite. (Greek)
• Attis – A transgender or eunuch consort of Cybelle. (Anatolian, Phrygian)
• Loki – A shape shifter who has given birth in a female form. (Norse)
• Ishi-Kore – A transgendered Kami. (Japanese, Shinto)
• Inari – A shape shifting Kami who has taken on the form of both male and female genders. (Japanese, Shinto)

If anyone knows of other gender ambiguous, multi-gendered, or agendered deities, chime in!

—the-brambled-way

• Aphroditus – an aspect of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, depicted as a female figure with male genitalia. Worshipped in certain cults, including in Athens.
• Hapi – Egyptian god linked to the flooding of the Nile, represented as a male figure with a feminine body type (including breasts) to indicate fertility.

• Ardhanarishvara

  – a composite of the Hindu gods Shiva and Parvati, represented as half man and half woman. This is more of an iconographic representation than a separate deity.

• Phanes – a primordial Orphic deity in Greek religion, with some attributes linking him to Dionysus (also an important Orphic deity) including being ‘two natured’ and ‘two shaped’.