Is there any interesting research or studies regarding what ancient people or cultures pre monotheism did in regards to gender or sexuality?

I have old friends who take the Joe Rogan tribal view of like eating meat all the time and I just want to challenge them about the whole alpha male thing.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    super late reply to a post but i found a small subreddit (r/sumer) trying to try to create sumerian neopaganism from limited documents/info from that period. not sure if i'm that hardcore though lol.

    maybe we just create a small hexbear cult. also all those map war games that have crazy high trans players make sense now its just a devotional to our genderfluid goddess of war

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      gotta love our slay kween Ishtar

      i tried to get a bit more into this stuff and it's kinda difficult to find more on the trans aspects of her cult. the clergy definitely had a lot of GNC people, but as you can imagine historiographers have a very strong tendency to miss the obvious and claim the priesthood of the goddess who can trans your gender are just gay men who only happen to have female names and talk in speech patterns exclusively reserved for female characters because reasons. Big "no, that character is akshually a femboy" energy.