Androgynon

Androgynon or androgynos (plural androgynoi) is a Hellenist religiogender for individuals who are nonbinary, intersex, androgynous, or bigender, among others. Not to be confused with the Jewish religiogender by the same name, androgynos.

Ancient Hellenic (Greek) Definitions

 * The race of mythic beings made up of male and female, who split to become the two binary sexes
 * A male who acts as a bottom in relationships with men (an androgynos)
 * A very effeminate man or AMAB person (an androgynos)
 * An intersex person, especially those labelled as hermaphrodites (note: hermaphrodite is an intersexist slur only to be used by intersex people who reclaim it)
 * Eunoukhoi

Modern Definitions

 * The above definitions
 * A nonbinary individual
 * Bigender or other multigender people who are male and female
 * Genderfluid individuals

Etymology
From "anḗr" (man) and "gunḗ" (woman).

Androgynon is pronounced "an-dró-gy-non." Androgynos is pronounced "an-dró-gy-nos."

Mythology
The androgynoi were a mythical race from Plato's symposium predating humans. They were spherical being with bodies composed of two human bodies, one female and one male. Alongside the androgynoi were other similar beings who were two female or two male bodies.

Later, they were split into halves, and this myth serves as an explanation for human desire.

In other myths, creatures who were like the androgynoi or who were androgynoi of other varieties appeared. The most well known is the deity Hermaphroditos, the intersex child of Hermes and Aphrodite whose name is the root of the now-slur hermaphrodite.

The deity Dionysos was also described as an "androgynos," specifically in reference to his acting as a submissive in sexual relations with men. This is often interpreted as identifying them as intersex or androgynous, though typically they are not depicted as such. However, it may be argued that this identified them as transgender or nonbinary, assuming it was not only used as derogatory or homophobic.