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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.
Many ancient Berber beliefs were developed locally. Whereas others were influenced over time through contact with other traditional African religions (such as the Ancient Egyptian religion), or borrowed during antiquity from the Punic religion, Judaism, Iberian mythology, and the Hellenistic religion.
Tinjis (Berber languages: ⵜⵉⵏⵊⴰ, romanized: Tinja) (also called Tinga, and also spelled as Tingis) was a Libyan queen as the wife of King Antaeus in Berber and Greek mythology, [1] and some kind of a female deity.
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.
According to the 9th-century Muslim writer al-Bakrī, there was a place called Gherza in Tripolitania with a hilltop sanctuary containing a stone idol that the Berber tribes from the surrounding region still worshipped. [1] The relief carving of a horned god at Volubilis has been tentatively identified as Gurzil. This would be the only evidence ...
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.
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.
Berber mythology; Egyptian mythology; Southern Africa ... Ancient mythologies by period of first attestation. Bronze Age. Hindu mythology; Canaanite mythology;