ANDROGYN female male, a bisexual being, often called a hermaphrodite, characterized primarily as an intersex being. Both concepts are used in more ancient symbolic works most often with the same meaning. While modern man in this connection thinks of a sexually indeterminate hermaphrodite, in ancient cultures the idea of an image that conceals both male and female principles, like Zeus the almighty god in the Orphic hymn, came to the fore. : "Zeus is a Man, Zeus is an immortal woman..."