Androgynous and hermaphroditic deities

In Greek mythology, Adonis (; , ) was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity.

god of the annual flooding of the Nile in ancient Egyptian religion

thumb|Herculaneum fresco 1–50 AD, [[National Archaeological Museum, Naples]] In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Hermaphroditus (; , ) is a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. According to Ovid, he was born a remarkably beautiful boy whom the naiad Salmacis attempted to rape and prayed to be united with forever. A god, in answer to her prayer, merged their two forms into one and transformed him into a being of two sexes, both male and female. His name is compounded of his parents' names, Hermes and Aphrodite, and is the origin of the term hermaphrodite.

thumb|An 1856 depiction of the Sabbatic Goat from by Éliphas Lévi. The arms bear the [[Latin words (dissolve) and (coagulate), reflecting the spiritual alchemy of Lévi's work.]]

Japanese kami of foxes, of fertility, rice, tea and Sake, of agriculture and industry etc

Ardhanarishvara () is a form of the Hindu deity Shiva combined with his consort Parvati. Ardhanarishvara is depicted as half-male and half-female, equally split down the middle.

thumb|alt=Winged figure holding a staff, with a snake coiled around his body|A figure who has been identified as Protogonos, on a relief from Modena, 2nd century AD

thumb|200px|Water Nymph Salmacis, engraving by Philip Galle (1587) Salmacis () was an atypical Naiad nymph of Greek mythology. She rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness.

Tatenen (also Ta-tenen, Tatjenen, Tathenen, Tanen, Tenen, Tanenu, and Tanuu) was the deity of the primordial mound in ancient Egyptian religion. His name means "risen land" or "exalted earth", as well as referring to the silt of the Nile. As a primeval chthonic deity, Tatenen was identified with creation. Both feminine and masculine, he was an androgynous protector of nature from the Memphis area (then known as Men-nefer), the ancient capital of the Inebu-hedj nome in Lower Egypt.

thumb|Phrygia#Culture|Phrygian statue of Cybele/Agdistis from the mid-6th century BC at or near [[Hattusa|upright=1.2]] Agdistis () is a deity of Greek, Roman, and Anatolian mythology who was a hermaphrodite, having been born with both male and female reproductive organs. The deity was closely associated with the Phrygian goddess Cybele.

androgyne in Hindu mythology

creator god and common motif in the art and religion of Aboriginal Australia

thumb|Tlaltecuhtli's head is shown flung back with a serpent tongue and a sacrificial knife between her teeth thumb|Annotations detailing the iconography of the Tlaltecuhtli Monolith (located at the Museum of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, Mexico) Tlaltecuhtli (Classical Nahuatl Tlāltēuctli, ) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican deity worshipped primarily by the Mexica (Aztec) people. Sometimes referred to as the "earth monster," Tlaltecuhtli's dismembered body was the basis for the world in the Aztec creation story of the fifth and final cosmos. In carvings, Tlaltecuhtli is often depicted as an

Chinese mythological figure

thumb|right|150px|Herma|Herm of Aphroditus at the [[Nationalmuseum in Stockholm]] thumb|right|150px|Greek terracotta figurines|Greek terracotta figurine, late 4th century BCE, [[National Museum of Magna Grecia]] thumb|right|150px|Bronze statuette, [[Roman imperial, 1st-3rd century CE, British Museum]]

female supreme being in some West African Traditional Religions such as Vodun

thumbnail|right|Tuchulcha and These in the Tomb of Orcus II, [[Tarquinia.]] In Etruscan mythology, Tuchulcha was a chthonic daemon (not to be confused with the Christian term "demon") with pointed ears (perhaps those of a donkey), hair made of snakes, and a beak (perhaps that of a vulture). Tuchulcha lived in the underworld known as Aita.

Šauška (Shaushka), also called Šauša or Šawuška, was the highest ranked goddess in the Hurrian pantheon. She was associated with love and war, as well as with incantations and by extension with healing. While she was usually referred to as a goddess and with feminine titles, such as allai (Hurrian: "lady"), references to masculine Šauška are also known. The Hurrians associated her with Nineveh, but she was also worshiped in many other centers associated with this culture, from Anatolian cities in Kizzuwatna, through Alalakh and Ugarit in Syria, to Nuzi and Ulamme in northeastern Mesopotamia. S

Oshunmare (or Oshumare; known as Ochumaré or Oxumaré in Latin America) is an Orisha. Oshumare is the divine serpent spirit of the rainbow, and "Òṣùmàrè" also means "rainbow" in the Yoruba language.

thumb|Ugajin (宇賀神), masculine form.

creator god in the religion of the Dogon

Jumadi is an androgynous deity worshipped in the Buta Kola folk tradition. The Buta Kola is popular among the Tuluva ethnic people in the coastal districts of Karnataka, India.

divinity (kami) in Japanese Shinto

thumb|230px|A gynomorphic sculpture of Bacchus, Roman Imperial (2nd century CE), at the [[Musée du Louvre.]] Gynomorph is a word used to describe an organism with female physical characteristics.

Ninsianna (Sumerian: "Red Queen of Heaven") was a Mesopotamian deity considered to be the personification of Venus. This theonym also served as the name of the planet in astronomical texts until the end of the Old Babylonian period. There is evidence that Ninsianna's gender varied between locations, and both feminine and masculine forms of this deity were worshiped. Due to their shared connection to Venus, Ninsianna was associated with Inanna. Furthermore, the deity Kabta appears alongside Ninsianna in many texts, but the character of the relation between them remains unclear.

figure in Brazilian mythology

Artimpasa (; ) was a complex androgynous Scythian goddess of fertility who possessed power over sovereignty and the priestly force. Artimpasa was the Scythian variant of the Iranian goddess Arti/Aṣ̌i.

composite of Hindu deity couple Vishnu and Lakshmi