Agdistis
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In Greek mythology heavily influenced by cultures from the East, Cybele was a goddess pursued by Zeus who raped her after she disguised herself as a rock called Agdistis. The result was a hermaphrodite named Agdistis.
Another version claims that Agdistis was born when Zeus dropped his semen upon the ground in his excitement over an unknown Goddess that resisted his attentions, causing a rock or a mountain to become pregnant. Or perhaps Zeus's grandmother Gaia herself became pregnant. Either way, Agdistis was the result. S/he was a powerful hermaphroditic Daemon. S/he was chaotic, neither good nor evil, but impossible to control, containing all of the powers of creation within hir own body and fully aware of hir power, s/he went about wreaking havok by her whims.
The Gods decided that s/he must be stopped. Dionysus got Agdistis drunk by turning a spring into wine and s/he fell into a deep sleep. He tied hir male parts to hir legs or arms, and startled hir, so that s/he woke and leapt up in fright, s/he tore off hir own male genitals. Where the genitals fell upon the ground, an almond tree sprung up.
Deprived of hir male parts, Agdistis was now a female divinity and became the great Mother Goddess Cybele.
Some time later, Nana, the daughter of a river spirit, came upon the almond tree and either eating an almond, placing it in her lap, or bringing it to her breast she became pregnant and bore Attis. She subsequently abandoned Attis to be found and raised by shepherds under the watchful eye of Cybele, his Mother/Father/Grandmother, who later would be his lover.
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