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The traditional Berber religion is the sum of ancient and native set of beliefs and deities adhered to by the Berbers.Originally, the Berbers seem to have believed in worship of the sun and moon, animism and in the afterlife, but interactions with the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans influenced religious practice and merged traditional faiths with new ones.
Berbers are not an entirely homogeneous ethnicity, and they include a range of societies, ancestries, and lifestyles. The unifying forces for the Berber people may be their shared language or a collective identification with Berber heritage and history. As a legacy of the spread of Islam, the Berbers are now mostly Sunni Muslim.
According to their myth, Sufax built the city "Tangier" (which was known as Tingis in the ancient sources) and named it after his mother. [5] In fact, Tangier is believed to have been built by Berbers. It was an important city in an early short-lived kingdom known as Mauretania.
Antaeus (/ æ n ˈ t iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνταῖος, romanized: Antaîos, lit. 'opponent', derived from ἀντάω, antáō, 'I face, I oppose'), known to the Berbers as Anti, was a figure in Berber and Greek mythology. [1] He was famed for his defeat by Heracles as part of the Labours of Hercules.
Characters in Berber mythology (2 C, 1 P) G. Guanche mythology (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Berber mythology" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Tanit or Tinnit (Punic: 𐤕𐤍𐤕 Tīnnīt [3]) was a chief deity of Ancient Carthage; she derives from a local Berber deity and the consort of Baal Hammon. [a] [5] [6] As Ammon is a local Libyan deity, [7] so is Tannit, who represents the matriarchal aspect of Numidian society, [2] whom the Egyptians identify as Neith and the Greeks identify as Athena.
Al-Kahina (Arabic: الكاهنة, romanized: al-Kāhina, lit. 'the priestess'), also known as Dihya, was a Berber warrior-queen of the Aurès (a kingdom in present-day northeast Algeria) [1] and a religious and military leader who lived during the seventh century AD.
Magec (Guanche Berber Ma-ɣeq, 'possesses radiance' or 'mother of brightness' [1]), in Tenerife, [2] was a deity in the ancient Berber mythology.Magec was god or goddess (actual gender is unknown) of the Sun and light and is thought to be one of the principal divinities in the Guanche religion.