Agdistis
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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
Phrygian statue of Cybele/Agdistis from the mid-6th century BC at or near Hattusa
Pygmalion
Apollo and Daphne
Io changed into a cow, Mercury cuts of Argus's head
Cybele
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Cybele is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest Neolithic at Çatalhöyük. Greek colonists in Asia Minor adopted and adapted her Phrygian cult and spread it to
Agdistis
…who was a hermaphrodite, having been born with both male and female reproductive organs. The deity was closely associated with the Phrygian goddess Cybele. The geographer Pausanias (7.17.10–12) records the following story about Agdistis, which he says the people of Pessinus told. Zeus, while asleep, spilled…
Cybele enthroned, with lion, cornucopia, and mural crown. Roman marble, c. 50 AD. Getty Museum
Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük, flanked by large felines as arm-rests, c. 6,000 BC
Seated Cybele within a naiskos (4th century BC, Ancient Agora Museum, Athens)
Cybele in a chariot driven by Nike and drawn by lions toward a votive sacrifice (right); above are heavenly symbols including a solar deity, Plaque from Ai Khanoum, Bactria (Afghanistan), 2nd century BC; Gilded silver, ⌀ 25 cm