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Religious narrative has included stories interpreted by many as accounts of same-sex love and sexuality. Other myths contain LGBT references. List is arranged by continent of origin of the religion. Entries of names are alphabetical.

Africa

Egypt

The Americas

  • Ghede Nibo, a Vodou spirit caring for those who die young. He is sometimes depicted as an effeminate drag queen and inspires those he inhabits to lascivious sexuality of all kinds. [1]

Asia and the Middle East

Babylonia

Biblical

Japan

Europe

Christian

Celtic

Greece

Norse

Listed in alphabetical order, with culture of origin noted and statement of how it relates to LGBT.

  • Agdistis, a Phrygian deity born with both male and female genitalia, but later castrated so that she became female
  • Ahsonnutli, in Navaho tradition, a bisexual creator god
  • Anteros, Greek god of unrequited love, was also a term used for the love which arises in the beloved boy in a pederastic relationship.
  • Amazons, in Greek mythology, a nation of warrior women
  • Asiaq, in Inuit mythology, the deity of storms, generally portrayed as female, but sometimes as male
  • Atea and Fakahotu a Polynesian god and goddess who change sexes when their son dies of hunger
  • Chin (Mayan god), Mayan god of homosexuality
  • Eros, Greek god of sexual love of all types
  • Freyr, a Norse god of fertility, may have been worshipped by a group of homosexual or effeminate priests, as suggested by Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum and later by Dumézil [4]
  • Grettir, an Icelandic hero, had a voracious sexual appetite and was said to have slept with men, women and animals alike.[citation needed]
  • Hapy, Egyptian god of the Nile River, depicted as a male with pendulous breasts
  • Hermaphroditos, hermaphroditic Greek deity, son of Aphrodite and Hermes
  • Himeros, a Greek god of love, sometimes considered the patron of homosexual love between males
  • Hu Tianbao, Chinese god of homosexuality
  • Loki, a Norse trickster god, who frequently disguises himself as a woman and has given birth, (whilst in the form of a white mare, he took a 'passive' role in a homosexual/bestial encounter with the stallion) Svadilfari, resulting in his giving birth to the foal Sleipnir.
  • Mandulis, a Nubian sky deity, pictured as male, with pendulous breasts
  • Mawu-Lisa, a depiction of the creator deity in Dahomey tradition presented as both male and female
  • Nana Buluku the androgynous supreme deity of the Dahomey
  • Odin is mentioned as a practitioner of seiðr, a form of magic considered shameful for men to perform, so was reserved for women. It is possible that the practice of seiðr involved passive sexual rites [5].
  • Ometeotl, the Aztec master of duality, considered both male and female
  • Phanes, in Greek mythology and philosophy, the primordial, androgynous deity of love and procreation who hatched from the World Egg during the creation of the world
  • Tiresias, a male Greek prophet who was turned into a woman for 7 years
  • Wadj-wer, Egyptian god of the Nile Delta, depicted as a male with pendulous breasts

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See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Conner, Randy, David Hatfield Sparks, and Mariya Sparks. Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit. London & New York: Cassell. 1997. (p157)
  2. ^ Pflugfelder, Gregory (2000). Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  3. ^ Jordan, Mark D. (2000). The silence of Sodom: homosexuality in modern Catholicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-41041-2. on the nature of "brotherly love", p.174
  4. ^ Dumézil, Georges. From Myth to Fiction: the Saga of Hadingus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1970. (p115)
  5. ^ Viking Answer Lady Webpage - Homosexuality in Viking Scandinavia

Bibliography

Bernard Sergent

  • Homosexuality in Greek Myth
  • L'homosexualité initiatique dans l'Europe ancienne

Andrew Calimach

  • Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths
  • Lovers' Legends Unbound

Conner, Sparks & Sparks

  • Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit
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