ANDROGYNES, in Ancient Mythology, creatures of whom, according to the fable, each individual possessed the powers and characters of both sexes, having two heads,
four arms, and two feet. The word itself is compounded of two Greek radical words; ανδρ, in the genitive ανδρος, a male; and γυν, a female. Many of the rabbinical writers pretend that Adam was created double, one body being male, the other female, which in their origin not being essentially joined, God afterwards did nothing but separate them.