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In Hinduism, there are diverse approaches to conceptualizing God and gender.Many Hindus focus upon impersonal Absolute which is genderless.Other Hindu traditions conceive God as bigender (both female and male), alternatively as either male or female, while cherishing gender henotheism, that is without denying the existence of other gods in either gender.
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere
A diagram of the names of God in Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652–1654). The style and form are typical of the mystical tradition, as early theologians began to fuse emerging pre-Enlightenment concepts of classification and organization with religion and alchemy, to shape an artful and perhaps more conceptual view of God.
A male or female deity can create through speech or through action, but the metaphor for creation which is uniquely feminine is birth. Once God is called female, then, the metaphor of birth and the identification of the deity with nature and its processes become inevitable
Both male gods and female gods are found in Hinduism. But many Shaktism and other sects describes the main ultimate God is as feminine energy (The Mother Goddess 'Shakti' ; shakti translates to, 饾槶饾槳饾樀.Power and strength) and relates it with a mother being the most important and ultimate God and all the creation is through her.
Ardhanarishvara represents the synthesis of masculine and feminine energies of the universe (Purusha and Prakriti) and illustrates how Shakti, the female principle of God, is inseparable from (or the same as, according to some interpretations) Shiva, the male principle of God, and vice versa. The union of these principles is exalted as the root ...
But what is mortal that also is Pragâpati; for Pragâpati is everything: thus he makes him to be Pragâpati, and hence there are these thirty-four utterances, called expiations. [ note 1 ] [ 8 ] — Satapatha Brahmana 4:5:7:2
Haashch始éé Ba始áádí (Hastsébaádi, Qastcebaad, Yebaad) (Female Divinity) Haashch始éé Oo艂t始ohí (Hastséoltoi, Hastyeoltoi, Shooting God) Hak始az Asdz膮虂膮虂 (Cold Woman) Náhook谦s Ba始áádí (Whirling Woman) Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá (Spider Grandmother) S膮虂 (Old Age Woman) Tséghádi始nídíinii At始ééd (Rock Crystal Girl) Gwich ...