Snakes are a common in worldwide mythologies, and have often been associated with LGBTQ+ themes. In Japanese mythology Shirabyōshi are thought to be female deities who wore traditional male dress. In Borneo, among the pantheon of deities, Mahatala-Jata is an androgynous or transgender god. The male part of this god, Mahatala, rules the Upperworld, and is depicted as a hornbill living above the clouds on a mountain-top and the female part is Jata, who rules the Underworld from under the sea in the form of a water-snake. These two forms are linked by a jewel-encrusted bridge that is seen in the physical world as a rainbow. The Indigenous Australian rainbow serpent gods Ungud and Angamunggi are both also described as androgynous or transgender.