Description acceptable. The sage Bhringi performs this action to avoid Parvati while circumambulating around Shiva, causing him to be cursed with weakness until Shiva gives him a third leg. During the Kurukshetra War, Krishna performs this action to provide Arjuna’s son Aravan with the last of three promised boons. Bhishma laid down his weapons because he refused to fight a warrior who underwent this action named Shikhandi. While stealing the elixir of life from the asuras, Vishnu performs this action to become the avatar Mohini. In Greek myth, one instance of this action occurs when a pair of copulating snakes is interrupted by a blind prophet. For 10 points, name this transformation undergone by Tiresias, as well as a son of Hermes and Aphrodite named Hermaphroditus. ■END■
ANSWER: sex change [or gender transition; accept becoming female or becoming male; accept not conforming to gender roles or being intersex or otherwise existing outside the gender binary; prompt on turning into an animal until “Krishna” is read by asking “what other physical change was made?”; prompt on reincarnation by asking “what physical change accompanied that action?”]
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