Transgender identity and Hellenic Polytheism.
Hello everyone Χαίρετε! Salvete omnes! I am a Greco-Roman or Hellenic polytheist, I've been involved in some Hellenic and Roman reconstructionist circles recently. I also use the term pagan for myself, but in this article, I will refrain from using that and just focus on polytheist instead. Lots of trans people have different religions or none at all, but we are talking about mine specifically or at least people who practice similarly and from the same set of pantheon that we attribute to Ancient Greece and even Rome to some degree. We will start with some brief summary of the history. One of the first thing comes to mind is the Gallae priestesses of Magna Mater in Rome, which is the Latin epithet for the Anatolian goddess Cybele as the Great Mother. Cybele is from the east and it was the Greeks who introduced Cybele through a Sybil that foresaw her cult as being an integral part of the Pax Deorum (Peace of the Gods) in Rome and the public cults. Mother Goddesses are important in ...