Baph is a xenogender identity, as well as a non-binary identity, in which a person’s gender is tied to occult and magical feelings. One’s gender feels like a balance of polar ‘energies’ (divine masculine and feminine, spiritual and material, etc.), being both energies while also being something unique that is in between and transcends them.
Baph can be used on its own or modified (demibaph, alte-baph, ect).
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| “ | A xenogender/nonbinary experience based in occult and magical feelings where one feels like a balance of self-defined polar ‘energies,’ such as masculine/feminine (not male/female), spirit/material, sky/land/sea, light/darkness, etc. being both energies while also being something unique that is between and transcends them. It draws from Eliphas Levi’s image of the Baphomet and symbolism within it, and has a feeling of occult transcendence, embodiement, liminality, and perversion of boundaries. Similar to androgyne, but off the binary and related to other polar concepts and forces instead of the binary genders. | ” |
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