Algeria · North Africa
Cave shelter and rain-bride figures from Amazigh belief and custom.
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goddess · Amazigh / Algerian
Lady of the Sheltering Cave
Ifri is described as an Amazigh (Berber) goddess of caves and protection. Some scholars link her name to 'Africa' and to the Roman Dea Africa. Sources are fragmentary, and modern descriptions are partly reconstruction.
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spirit · Amazigh / Algerian
The Rain's Bride
Amazigh legend tells of a radiant young woman loved by Anzar, the rain. When she agreed to join him, the rain returned to the parched land. Rain-calling processions in parts of North Africa carried a decorated figure called Tislit n Anzar, the Bride of the Rain.
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