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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.
The regime of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya also banned the teaching of Berber languages, and, in a 2008 leaked diplomatic cable, the Libyan leader warned Berber minorities: "You can call yourselves whatever you want inside your homes – Berbers, Children of Satan, whatever – but you are only Libyans when you leave your homes."
In Greek sources, he was the son of Poseidon and Gaia, [2] [3] [4] who lived in the interior desert of Libya. [5] His wife was the goddess Tinge, for whom it was claimed that the city of Tangier in Morocco was named (though it could be the other way around), [6] and he had a daughter named Alceis or Barce. [7]
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.
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.
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 deities (3 C, 1 P) K. Kings in Berber mythology (3 P) Pages in category "Characters in Berber mythology" This category contains only the following page.
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.