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The Mesopotamian goddess Inanna/Ishtar had priests who'd probably be conceptualised as intersex, transgender, or otherwise gender nonconforming under modern Anglophone constructions. Did this apply to the similar Levantine goddesses Astoreth/Astarte and Asherah?

by /u/PablomentFanquedelic in /r/AskHistorians

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