Ngaju

…Sarawak and eastern Kalimantan; the Ngaju of central and southern Kalimantan; the Bidayuh of southwestern Sarawak and western Kalimantan; and the Iban of Sarawak.

Among the Ngadju-Dayak of Borneo there exists a special class of shamans, the basirs (literally, “incapable of procreation”). These intersex individuals (hermaphrodites) are considered to be intermediaries between heaven and earth because they unite in their own person the feminine element (earth) and the masculine element (heaven).