Berber Mythology
Berber Mythology: The Complete Guide to the Gods, Spirits, and Sacred World of the Amazigh
The Amazigh: Gods, Spirits, and North Africa
The beliefs of North Africa’s first people, the Amazigh, who were old when Carthage was young: the sun and the moon, the jnun of the wild places, the cult of the ancestors and the caves, the goddess the Greeks called Athena, and a tradition that outlived every empire.
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Inside this book
What you will read
- 11 chapters, primary sources
- Instant PDF download
- Original ink illustrations
- Inline citations to classical and field sources
- Designed for print quality
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- 01The Free People: Who the Amazigh Are
- 02The Sun, the Moon, and the Old Sky
- 03The Cult of the Dead and the Sacred Caves
- 04Gurzil, Bonchor, and the Gods of the Tribes
- 05The Great Goddess of Libya: Tanit and Athena
- 06The Jnun: Spirits of Spring, Stone, and Threshold
- 07Antaeus, Atlas, and the Libyan Myths of the Greeks
- 08Amulets, the Khamsa, and the Evil Eye
- 09Marabouts, Saints, and the Holy Dead
- 10Festivals, Yennayer, and the Amazigh Year
- 11From Carthage to Islam: A Faith That Endured
Written by
Guillaume Henry
Founder of Mythologis
Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.
- Primary sources first
- No invented quotations
- Cross-referenced across translations
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