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Jun 16, 2005
The Crustacean Ardhanarishvara
In Hinduism, Ardhanarishvara is the “Half-female Lord,” essentially Shiva in an androgynous form. Well fisherman pulled out a very rare gender-confused crab, or a “bilateral gynandromorph,” from the lower Chesapeake Bay, the Post reports. (Well, it’s almost like Ardhanarishvara, except for the crab’s male section was on the left and female section on the right. The Hindu deity’s gender orientation is swapped.) While this could be just a random fluke (we’re by no means an…