Talk:Ishikore-Dome/@comment-84.98.66.21-20160105184634/@comment-25435121-20160109084342

I think no matter how you look at it, "transsexual" is a new term that Greeks, Romans, Norse, and ancient Japanese would not have used or had a similar term form. I think the OP was just trying to place a new word on old things like "people like to do".

The wiki page that the OP linked has a single "ref" to a work that is biased towards the LGBT community. The original god in Japanese mythology simple had no reference to it's gender, not it's sexual preference. So the author decided this must be an "androgynous or transgendered diety".

I'm not an expert in Japanese mythology, but a quick google search will show that wikipedia is pretty much the only site with this opinion on Ishikore-Dome

the closest thing I could come up with is this: https://journeyingtothegoddess.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/goddess-ishikore-dome/ Ishikori-dome is the Shinto Goddess of stone-cutting. Although some sources refer to Her as a God, most say that She was a Goddess. ... skip some stuff most Shinto shrines display a mirror as a symbol of Amaterasu. Ishikori-dome’s name, which means “stone-forming old woman”

I think that pretty much clarifies the subject. Her name itself means "old woman" the people that called her a "God" seem to have been mistaken.