edit: seriously every transphobic thing you can say in a reblog has been said before. you’re just getting blocked and wasting everyone’s time. its not homophobia to support trans lesbians.
Aphrodite Lesbian Flag
Aphrodite Lesbian: A lesbian who prefers sexual acts and affection, or who centers sexuality in their relationships
I made an Aphrodite lesbian flag as a devotional act for Aphrodite and especially Aphroditos, because I learned the most popular flag was made by a proud TERF and had a whole stripe for only being attracted to vulvas.
...yeah. It's bad.
So, here they are!
The stripes' symbolism is as follows:
Red: Roses, Aphrodite's blessings (love/lust)
Hot pink: Sexuality, attraction to the feminine, trans lesbians
Pink: A-spec lesbians, sex-positive asexuals, femme lesbians
White: Community, connection, acceptance
Light blue: Seafoam, allo lesbians, butch lesbians
Blue: The ocean, the variety of lesbians, history
Purple: Solidarity and love with bambi lesbians, Sappho and violets
Note: Androgynos here refers to the Ancient Hellenic religiogender, not the Jewish gender by the same name. They’re simply both Greek words for similar concepts.
I hadn’t seen any androgynon flags, and since I identify as androgynon—especially in context of my worship—I thought I’d try my hand at it.
Androgynon is, boiled down to its bare bones, "a Hellenist religiogender for individuals who are nonbinary, intersex, androgynous, bigender, and/or bisexual." The term acts as a gender and epithet. For example, an androgynos god may be bisexual and a "switch" (ie Adonis and Dionysos) or intersex (ie Hermaphroditos).
Meanings:
Gold: Hermaphroditos, the divine
Wine red: Dionysos, blurring of lines
Rose: Adonis, the bisexual androgynos
Navy: The wine-dark sea
Green: The Makhlyes, the intersex androgynon
The first symbol is the symbol for the Divine Nonbinary/Androgynous, the second for the Divine Neutral/Agender, and of course a no symbol version is last.
The Divine Transgender is almost definitely not my original term--I'm sure someone else has used the name. But regardless, I wanted to coin it, because I've never seen it defined
A Divine Transgender person is any theistic trans person (of any religion, if you believe in divinity as a concept or as an entity) who considers their transness to be divine because, for example:
they believe the divine chose for them to be trans
they believe transition to be a divine act or to be desired by the divine
they believe transness brings them closer to their deity/divinity
Only theistic people may identify as Divine Transgender because the identity is based on the belief that divinity exists and has power, and belief in divinity is theism. However, one does not need to adhere to a specific religion. You only need to believe in some form of deity.
The best illustration of what the Divine Transgender is the quote that inspired the term;
“God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.” ― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
This term is trans exclusive and not just "Divine Gender" because, frankly, cis binary people already have their divine genders. The point of the Divine Transgender is the belief that trans people are just as sacred and blessed as cis people. No one needs to be convinced being cisgender is divine. So please respect the Divine Transgender being deeply significant and meaningful to theistic trans people, and do not coopt this term for cis folks. Everything else is for cis people. Trans people deserve our own sacred role in theism.
Symbols under the cut.
You can feel free to create your own versions of the Divine Transgender symbols, except to make cisgender versions of the symbols for the reason I stated. I consent to intersex, transgender, nonbinary and religiogender versions. That's it.
Note: Divine Transgender can be understood as a secular religiogender, concept, religious expression, demonstration of the role of trans people in religion, and a way to contextualize transness as holy and/or a blessing when it's often treated instead as divine punishment. You can say "I am a Divine Transgender," but you can also refer to "the Divine Transgender."
No hate on the original Sappholatryc flag or @pupyzu, its creator, the flag is beautiful, but I wanted to make my own version with a meaning!
Sappholatryc is simply “a gender connected to the worship of Sappho,” which I relate to. I consider my lesbianism, worship, gender, and the work of Sappho to all be closely linked, and I truly love the term.
I devoted the creation of this flag to Sappho, and by proxy Aphrodite.
Meanings:
Deep purple: Ink, Sappo’s hair, the kthonic/hero worship
Purple: Violets, sapphic love
Lavender: Peace, the ouranic/the heavens
Cream: Clouds, the muse
Beige: To resemble the original flag, paper
Gold: The theoi/deities, immortality
Rust: Roses, Aphrodite’s blessing, mortality
The emblem is directly from the original Sappholatryc flag, and the bottom four stripes are modeled after it because. It's gorgeous.
Apollogender is a gender that is composed of 7 or 9 (ish) genders that combine into one. The exact number of genders may range from 6-10. Named after the Greek God Apollon when synced with Helios, as Apollon's sacred number is 7 and Helios's is 9. The gender may also feel influenced by worship of Helios/Apollon, their domains, or the sun.
Flag, meaning & my reason for recoining are under the cut.
The flag is symbolic largely of the merge of Apollon and Helios, as Apollon is only a sun god when combined with Helios's mythos.
Meanings:
Navy: Helios, the mati, merged identity
Red Orange: Helios & Apollon, heat
Orange: Helios & Apollon, warmth
Light Orange: Helios & Apollon, music
Yellow: The sun
The black symbol in the middle is the astrological symbol for the sun. There are nine stripes total; seven for Apollon, with Helios represented by those plus two stripes to make nine for him.
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Apollogender was originally coined back in 2014. The main reason I’m doing this recoining is just… an extremely weird and frustrating unchallenged error, which is that Apollon is a god of nine domains. He has numerous domains that vary by time and place, which can probably number up to the dozens. Additionally, he has a sacred number, and it's seven--Helios is nine.
But the ultimate meaning of the term is pretty much the same, just with more accuracy and ties to my religion.
