List of virgin births

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This article is about virgin births of any figures other than Jesus, accompanied by a verifiable reference to a source describing them as such. For a discussion of the specific Christian doctrine of the Virgin Birth, please see Virgin Birth (Christian doctrine). For information on the biological phenomenon, please see parthenogenesis.

Deganawidah: "According to the legend, Dekanahwideh was born among the Huron Indians …. His virgin mother had been informed in a dream by a messenger from the Creator that she was to bear a son destined to plant the Tree of Peace at Onondaga." Dekanahwideh, Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.

Montezuma (the Pueblo god-hero, not the Aztec Emperor): Supposedly conceived from a beautiful virgin when she either ate[1] a pinyon pine nut, or when it fell from a tree and landed on her belly[2], depending on the version.

Huitzilopochtli: The Aztec god of war and the sun, he was conceived when a ball of feathers fell on his mother Coatlicue while she was cleaning a temple. The ball of feathers was actually Mixcoatl, the god of the hunt.

Hunahpu and Xbalanque: The Mayan Hero Twins, in their holy book the Popol Vuh, were conceived after twin sons of the Creators were summoned by the lords of Xibalba and beheaded for playing a noisy ball game. The head of one twin, Huh Hunahpu, magically impregnated Ixquic (also known as Blood Moon).

Sathya Sai Baba: According to the book Easwaramma by the authorized biographer Narayana Kasturi.

Cúchulainn: according to The Birth of Cúchulainn he was born three times: the second and third may have been virgin births (the narrative is unclear).