Galli (Priests

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• Galli — (singular Gallus) was the Roman name for castrated followers of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, which were regarded as a third gender by contemporary Roman scholars,Fact|date=July 2007 comparable to transgendered people in the modern world. The… …   Wikipedia

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