Surprising as it may be for many to learn, indigenous people North Africa is not Negroid Africans or even Arabs, but peoples who are commonly called Berbers. Even more surprising will be the fact that these peoples are peoples of the White Race who were subjected to forced Islamization in the 7th century AD.
By the way, many Berbers are unaware that they are called that, since other peoples gave them this name, and such a name is scientifically called an exoethnonym. There is a theory that it allegedly appeared under the Romans. They derive it from Greek barbaros, or Latin barbarus- “barbarian”. This is how the Greeks, and after them the Romans, called all the peoples whose culture and language they did not understand. However, if we take into account that the Roman Empire in the sense in which it is presented to us by orthodox historians did not exist, and all “ancient” history was written in the Middle Ages, then everything is not so simple and unambiguous, even with the term “barbarian”, let alone with the origin of “Berber” and even more so. They also, they say, called the ancient Germans barbarians, but they never began to be called Berbers.
But the ancient Spaniards were called Iberians. And here it is impossible not to notice that the ethnonyms “Berber” and “Iber” have the same root “ber”. According to Karl-Wilhelm Humboldt, a German philologist and philosopher of the 19th century, the oldest population of Spain is the Iberians, who lived on the peninsula since the 8th millennium BC, there are people from North Africa and the remnants of this ancient population Western Europe are modern Basques. There is also a version that the name Berber could come either from the local “ber-aber” - “to move in groups.” In addition, the Braber (or Barabir, Beraber) tribe lives in central Morocco. So, if you wish, you can find several versions of the origin of the word Berbers, but for some reason the most common is the “barbarian” version.
Now Berbers are a collection of many tribes that live throughout northern Africa, from Egypt in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, and from Sudan in the south to the Mediterranean Sea in the north, as well as in other countries, including European ones. The number of Berbers in the world is estimated differently - from 20 to 40 million. Human. Most of them live in the so-called Maghreb countries, in Arabic - “Where the sunset is”: Morocco (Shilkh, Amazikh, Rif tribes - about 9.5 million people), Algeria (Kabiles, Chauyas, Tuaregs - about 4, 3 million), Tunisia and Libya (Nafusi tribe 210 thousand). Berbers also live in Mali (0.6 million), Niger (0.4 million), France (1.2 million), Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the USA and Australia.
It is believed that they call themselves amazigh, amasiyen(can sound like Amazigh, Amazir and even Amazai), which means "people" or « free people» . However, there is another opinion on this matter. It is expressed by A.Yu. Militaryov is a Russian philologist and linguist, a specialist in the field of Semitic, Berber-Canarian and Afro-Asian linguistics. In his article “Through the Eyes of a Linguist: Garamantida in the Context of North African History,” he writes the following:
“Let’s touch on a few more scientific “micromyths” around the self-name of the Berbers. “The self-name that they (Berbers. - A.M.) most often they give themselves, this amasiyen, which means "people". They call their language human, which shows no less pride and contempt for the non-Berbers than the Romans, who called them barbarians” (13). And from another author: “The self-name of the Tuaregs is imohag (or imajirhen), which means “free” (“independent”)” (14). And in another place: “The love of freedom of the Tuaregs, reflected already in their self-name - “imohag”... reminds of the Garamantes who defended their independence...” (15).
In fact, imaziyean- the self-name of the Berbers (and its variants among the southern Berbers - the Tuaregs) - is not translated either as “people” or as “free”. This term has existed for at least 2.5 millennia - it is quite reliably identified with Maksyes Herodotus and Mazikes, Mazices other ancient sources and indeed, as Yu. K. Poplinsky suggests, is comparable to the ethnonym msws"Libyan" of Egyptian texts of the 19th and 20th dynasties... denoting one of the Libyan tribes and nothing more. The most plausible etymology for amaziy, plural h. imaziyan, was proposed by T. Sarnelli: he reconstructed it as the adjective “red” with the usual prefix m- from the common Berber verb *i-zway"to be red"
Naming a people by color (hair, skin or traditional clothing) is not a unique phenomenon (16). The additional meaning of this ethnonym developed in Tuareg dialects - “free” - indicates not the love of freedom of the Tuaregs or their desire for independence from some external “oppressors”, but, on the contrary, their own status as free, masters in relation to those dependent on them ethnic groups non-Caucasian type and non-Berber origin..."
At least two very interesting conclusions follow from this. Firstly, the self-name of the Amazih-Berbers may come from the word “red”. And indeed, among them there may be red-haired, white-skinned people with blue or light brown eyes. For example, Miss Algeria 2013, the wife of King Mohammed 6 of Jordan and the world famous and beloved French singer Edith Piaf. She is Berber on her mother's side. Also in the national clothing of the Berbers there is a lot of red. And secondly, the Amazikh tribes are of the Caucasian type. This conclusion is confirmed by quite numerous genetic studies that have identified the so-called "Berber marker"- haplogroup E1b1b, which is found not only in Africa (East, North and South), but also in Europe (Southeast and South) and Western Asia.
However, cautious scholars are wary of directly attributing the Berbers to the white race. They call them white Arabs (Caucasoid Arabs), an intermediate stage between Europeans and black Africans (Sub-Saharan Africans), a cross between white Europeans and the Mediterranean race, a cross between Europeans and West Asians, or simply Eurasians. Also genetic research by Western scientists such as Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza), Italian geneticist or Carlton Stevens Kuhn (Carleton Stevens Coon), an American anthropologist, concluded that white people came to North Africa several times during the period from 30 to 8 thousand years ago. First from Eurasia and then from the Middle East. Kuhn is confident that the Amasikh Berbers have lived in North Africa for at least 15 thousand years.
Libyan tribes were mentioned above. They are often referred to as the ancestors of the Amazih Berbers. In this regard, it will be interesting to consider one variant of the appearance of the word “Libyans” itself, also an exoethnonym. The Egyptians called these people “the people of the slave” - “worshippers of the sun” and depicted them as people with white skin, tattoos, ostrich feathers on their heads and a braid descending to the temple. “Rabu” was also pronounced as “rebu”, then “lebu”, then “libu” and, finally, “livy”. The fact that the Libyans were a white race is evidenced by Egyptian images (in the first picture - the first Libyan) and mosaics of “Roman” villas in Morocco, Libya and Tunisia (Cyrene, Leptis Magna and Sabratha). It should be noted that one of the Amazih Berbers became a Roman emperor Septimius Severus.
Despite the fact that there are a considerable number of sources on the Internet that mention Berbers and their history, there is no consensus on when it began. The range of opinions is quite large - according to different sources The history of the Berbers dates back from 3 to 11 thousand years. And nowhere is the possible origin of this people mentioned. On the lands of North Africa, the Berbers lived before all the conquerors known to us - the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, and even more so, the Arabs, who came to their lands in the 7-8 centuries AD. The latter began to push the indigenous white population deeper into the continent into desert and mountainous areas, forcibly Islamize and assimilate, imposing interethnic marriages. The Berber language was prohibited from being used in schools and official institutions, but despite this and the almost universal adoption of Islam, the Berbers managed to preserve it, as well as their mentality, culture and way of life. Perhaps this also happened because the Berbers somehow managed to combine Islam with their ancestral cults.
Unfortunately, Berber sources about their own history and culture has not been preserved, which, in general, is not surprising, given the number of conquerors who rolled over this ancient people in waves. As usual, each conqueror reshaped the culture and history of those he conquered to suit himself. For this purpose, the previous cultural and historical heritage a people who have the misfortune of being conquered. And take, for example, the recent occupation of Libya by NATO troops, who not only attacked a sovereign country, but also Almost all museums were looted and destroyed and museum valuables in Libya, barbarically bombed ancient cities Libya - Sabratha and Leptis Magna. Unique mosaics with Slavic-Aryan symbols, which the sands of Libya kept for hundreds of years, are most likely irretrievably destroyed. European savages, who behaved in exactly the same way in Yugoslavia and Iraq, even managed to steal the most ancient rock paintings. They impregnated the canvas with a special chemical composition and sealed it to the images that were glued to it. He talks about this barbarity Nikolai Sologubovsky, publicist, historian, filmmaker, photographer, in his reports “Libya. The Death of Civilization" and "The Death of the Tripolitan Venus".
But let's return to the ancient Libyans. Mentions of them can be found only in the stories of other peoples - the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Let's look at brief mentions of them, and along the way, let's go through the currently known history of the ancient Amazikh Berbers. The earliest written mention of the Libyans can be found in the ancient Egyptian papyri of the end 4th millennium BC The latter had quite close relationships with their neighbors the Berbers. And they traded, and fought with them, and forced them to pay tribute. Military conflicts with the Libyan Berbers decorate the walls of Egyptian temples and tombs of the pharaohs. Thus, in the Temple of Amun in Karnak, Pharaoh Seti I is shown defeating the Libyan warriors, and in Medinet Habu, the funerary temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, faience reliefs were found depicting traditional enemies of Egypt. From left to right: Libyans, Nubians, Syrians, Semites (Shasu nomads) and Hittites.
During the Middle Kingdom (circa 2200-1700 BC), the Egyptians managed to subjugate the eastern Berbers and force them to pay tribute. Many Berbers served in the Pharaoh's army and reached high positions in the government hierarchy. One of the officers of Berber origin seized power in Egypt around 950 BC. and ruled under the name Shoshenq I. The 22nd and the next 23rd, as well as the 26th dynasties founded by him are called “Libyan”.
The Egyptians also talked about battles with tribes militant women(papyrus from the era of Ramses II (1279-1213 BC) has been preserved). Few people know, but in addition to the well-known Black Sea Amazons and long before them, there were Libyan Amazons - a tribe blond and blue-eyed female warriors. It is of absolute interest that the very name “Amazon” is consonant with the self-name of the Berbers “Amazihi”. The earliest mention of their warlike tribe is contained in the Iliad (presumably 8th century BC), Homer's poem about the Trojan War (14th century BC). In it, the Trojan king Priam remembers that he saw the battle of the Amazons against the Phrygians. In this war, the Amazons sided with the Trojans against the Greeks. Homer says that these women fought "like men like men."
Diodorus Siculus (90-30 BC), an ancient Greek historian and mythographer, also spoke about them, who in turn retold myths recorded by another ancient Greek mythologist - Dionysius Scytobrachion (lived in Alexandria in the middle of the 2nd century BC). e.). He said that The oldest Amazonian kingdom was located in Libya, otherwise in North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), but it disappeared long before the Trojan War. The capital of this kingdom was located near the northeastern part of Lake Shergi (Atlas Mountains of Algeria). South of the capital, near the southeastern shore of this lake, there were majestic tombs and palace and religious buildings of the Amazons in the rocks. The most famous Amazon of those times was Myrina. Under her leadership, the Amazons passed Egypt and Arabia, conquered Syria, passed through Asia Minor, where they founded a number of cities and sanctuaries: Myrina, Smyrna, Martesia, Otrera, etc. Myrina died with most of the army in Thrace ( modern area in the eastern Balkans, divided between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey). The remaining Amazons returned to Libya.
The very first of the ancient authors who wrote about the ancient Libyans is considered to be Herodotus, who in the 5th century. BC. described their tribes and customs in his work “History” (Book IV of Melpomene). In the 6th century. BC. The Libyans actively fought against Carthage, which tried to subjugate them, but during the Second Punic War (218-216 BC) - the war of Rome against Carthage, they sided with the Carthaginians. Hannibal's army included a Libyan cavalry corps. Carthage fell in 146 BC. and the lands of the Libyans became Roman provinces, and they had to pay tribute, or even fall into slavery. References to Libyans gradually disappear in Roman sources, and the indigenous population of North Africa began to be called Moors, and later Berbers. In the 1st century BC. Julius Caesar mentions them in his Notes on the Civil War.
In the 6th century AD Rome and later the Vandals in Africa were replaced by the Byzantines, and in the 7-8 centuries all of North Africa was conquered by the Arabs and became part of Arab Caliphate. Started Islamization of the Berbers who fought with these conquerors. In 698, North Africa was gripped by a powerful Berber revolt. History has preserved the name of the leader of the rebels - the prophetess Daya ( Daya Ult Yenfaq Tajrawt(Berb.), Dihya, or Damya(Arabic)) el-Kahina. By the way, Russian-language Wikipedia calls her the queen of the Berber-Jewish principality. However, the English-language version refers to a number of scholars who deny various reports that circulated in the 19th century that this warrior belonged to a tribe of Judaized Berbers. Moreover, some researchers, for example Nizovsky A.Yu., claim that she descended from the queens of the Libyan Amazons.
The revolt was brutally suppressed in 703. Daya fought with a sword in her hands at the head of her warriors and died in battle. Her severed head was sent to Caliph Abd el-Malik. The population of the African kingdom was offered a choice - convert to Islam or die. Among the many who accepted the Muslim faith were two adult sons of Daya - they claim that before her death she ordered her followers, in case of defeat, to convert to Islam for the sake of appearances in order to save the people from extermination. About 50 thousand people refused to change their faith and were killed.
In the 8th century, Berber tribal militias, together with the Arabs, participated in the conquest of Spain and played a decisive role there. Muslim forces that invaded in 711 under the command of Tariq ibn Ziyad (Tariq ibn Ziyad) to Spain, at the instigation of Spanish Jews (even the Russian-language Wikipedia admits this), they consisted mostly of Berbers - 7 thousand people, and there were only 300 Arabs in the detachment. Look what the “Moors” were like then and, above all, , Tariq himself, after whom, by the way, Gibraltar was named (from the distorted Arabic Jabal al-Tariq - “Mountain of Tariq”). This is how Spanish chroniclers portrayed him in the year of his troops’ invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. In the pictures below: a ceiling fresco depicting the emirs of Granada in the famous palace of the emirs - Alhambra. Medieval miniatures showing Muslim horsemen (right) and Christian horsemen (left) preparing to jointly take the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, Christian allies of Emir Omar Al-Murtada pursuing Muslims from the army of his enemy Abu Yusuf. “Book of Games” 13th century: Christian and Muslim play chess, Muslims play chess. They are all white Caucasians!
By the way, about reshaping the historical memory of conquered peoples. The last state of the “Moors” on the territory of Spain was the “Emirate of Granada”. It ceased to exist in 1492, during the centuries-long Reconquista (reverse conquest) of Christians. Andalusia was then considered not only a developed center of handicrafts - the production of silk fabrics, jewelry and weapons, gold embroidery, etc., but also a major cultural and scientific center of literature, music and medicine. But with the fall of the emirate, all “Moorish” books were by the will of the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros of Toledo ( Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros(1436-1517)) were burned, only a few scientific treatises, mainly on medicine, were spared.
In fairness, we note that not only Christians, but also Muslims barbarously destroyed knowledge they did not like. The richest library collected by the works of Caliph Rahman al-Hakam II (al-Hakam II) in Cordoba, which contained over 400 thousand volumes, mainly translations into Arabic of the works of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Hippocrates and other scientists and philosophers, was almost completely destroyed by General Al-Mansur, by the way, a Berber on his mother’s side, in 979 after the death of Al-Mansur. Hakama. Everything that did not comply with the norms of orthodox Islam, they call the figure 280 thousand volumes, went to the stake. As we see, obscurantist actions do not depend on the nationality to which a person belongs, but only on the worldview that he professes.
In 1050-1146, North Africa was ruled by Berber dynasty Almoravids. They controlled a vast territory - from Senegal and the upper reaches of the Niger to Morocco and Western Algeria. By 1090 they had subjugated Muslim Spain. They were then overthrown by the Berber Almohad dynasty, which ruled North Africa until the 70s of the 13th century, when it split into three states that coincided territorially with modern Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In the 16th century, most of the Maghreb countries came under the rule of Ottoman Empire, albeit nominally. The Berber tribes, nomadic and mountain-dwelling, refused to pay tribute to any external rulers and obeyed only their leaders.
Despite the fact that in modern times some Berbers have achieved fame and power, for example, Muammar Gaddafi, originally from the Arabized Berber tribe - the Bedouins of the Gaddafa, most of them today live in the mountains, in small towns and villages in houses made of red local stone or from clay. Most of them are deprived of basic amenities - electricity and running water. There is no transport connection with other cities. To fetch water from villages, women carry vessels several kilometers to special springs. They wash themselves in a nearby river or pond. Berbers are engaged in agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry.
So where did these tribes of white people come from to the continent, which, according to the Slavic-Aryan Vedas, our ancestors intended for residence by the black race from the Gloomy Wasteland galaxy, saved from the attacks of cosmic Dark Forces about 40 thousand years ago?
Some researchers suggest that “starting from 8-7 thousand BC. there was a migration of Neolithic tribes from Western Asia to North Africa... The reasons for the migration were the end of the first Neolithic climatic optimum and the onset of desertification of the Arabian Peninsula...” But again this doesn't tell us much. What are these “Neolithic tribes”? The white race lived on the Arabian Peninsula, but where did it come from? What caused the end of this “Neolithic climatic optimum”? These researchers have not yet offered clear answers.
However, it exists and is in the book Nikolay Levashov"Russia in distorting mirrors". Volume 2. Crucified Rus'. Chapters 1.4 and 1.5. He says that about 27,000 years ago the Earth was subjected to a meteorite attack, as a result of which the climate in Siberia and Far East- the places where the clans of the White Race lived changed - a sharp cooling began, which led to the death of many species of animals and plants that could not adapt to climate change. Therefore, part of the Clans of the White Race were forced to move from their well-lived place and leave their homeland in search of places more suitable for living. Here is how it is said in the Slavic-Aryan Vedas, Book of Wisdom of Perun, First Circle, Santiya 5:
3. (67).
The Holy Land of the Great Race will change its face.
The Great Cooling will bring the wind yes "Aryan on
this land and Maryon will cover for a third of Summer
her with his White Cloak. There will be no food for people and
animals during this time the Great Migration will begin
The tribes of the Union of Antes, whose patron was the White Hierarch Niy, left Great Asia. They went west, reached Europe, gradually settling there, crossed it and reached the Atlantic Ocean. Then the Whitemaras transported them to the lands of the people of the Red Race, to the American continent, where they subsequently organized the huge empire of the Ants - Antlan or Atlantis.
As can be seen from the illustration, this Ant Empire, which 13 thousand years ago launched a war for world domination against the mother Empire of Great Asia, which ended in a terrible catastrophe for earthly civilization, included not only the capital island, but also part of the Northern and South America, as well as part of southwestern Europe and the territory of North Africa. Moreover, on the territory of the latter there was an ancient, mysterious, highly developed state of the Garamantes - Garamantida, who are believed to be the progenitors of Amazih-Berbers and the creators of the trans-Saharan trade. The capital of Garamantida was the city of Garam (or Herma), which Pliny characterizes as “glorious.” Archaeologists have found paved streets, a royal palace, a fortress and a water supply system here, and about 50 thousand burials have been discovered in the vicinity of the city. All this is dated back to the first century AD. English scientists from the University of Leicester found castles in the Libyan desert, which are attributed to the Garamantian civilization: “Using satellites and aerial photographs to explore the southwestern abandoned desert regions of the Libyan state, discovered more than 100 fortified peasant farms surrounding several towns, with castle-like structures in the center.”.
The Garamantes built amazingly complex desert water pipelines - foggars- This many kilometers of underground galleries and pipes, which drained the moisture of the aquifers and directed it to the oases. The use of foggars made it possible to avoid very significant losses of water from evaporation in the desert. In order to assess the level of engineering calculations, you need to keep in mind that along the entire length of the foggar there had to be a uniform and very small height difference, literally one millimeter per meter. In the Al-Ajal Valley, researchers counted about 200 foggars, two of them continued to operate into the 1950s. The area irrigated by the Foggars was three to four times larger than the area of land currently cultivated.
A HUGE demonstration of Berbers took place earlier this week in the Moroccan capital Rabat. Demonstrators shouted slogans at native language Tamazight, carried posters with inscriptions written in the Berber Tifinagh script, reading: "We are not Arabs! Don't distort history!" Many of the passers-by reacted with sympathy to the demonstrators, but most were perplexed why the Berbers were denying what had connected them with the rest of the inhabitants of North Africa for 14 centuries, why they were abandoning what seemed to be their native and familiar Arab culture.
Officially, Morocco is an Arab country where the state religion is Islam. Berber activists in Morocco claim that all Moroccans are Berbers, but Berber influence on the country's political and economic life is minimal. Official quantity Berbers living in Morocco are unknown, but according to independent sources they are the majority. Total in the world, by different estimates, from 10 to 25 million Berbers. The majority, besides Morocco, live in Algeria, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Tunisia, the Canary Islands, Egypt, Burkina Faso and Chad.
Activists of the Berber movement complain that modern history books forget about the contribution of their ancestors to the history of the countries where they live. The Berbers are remembered mainly at folklore festivals and for the entertainment of tourists, mentioning them as something exotic.
The word "Berber" comes from "barbarian" - this is what the ancient Romans called this people during the conquest of North Africa. The Berbers themselves identify themselves by the name of the tribe, the people to which they belong (Tamazight, Rifs, Shleh, Tuaregs, Kabyles). Moroccan Berbers prefer to call themselves "Imazighen", which means "free man" in the Tamazight language.
In a speech marking the second anniversary of his reign, Morocco's King Mohammed VI promised to create a Royal Institute for the Study of Berber Culture, calling it a national treasure. The king added that the institute will do everything possible to preserve the Berber heritage. True, back in 1978, the country’s parliament decided to create such an institute, but this idea was never implemented. At the same time, the Berbers are not going to be content with the recognition of their culture - they demand that the Tamazight language be given the status of an official language of Morocco on a par with Arabic.
The problem with recognizing the Berber language is that it has about 300 dialects, and some experts even consider them to be separate languages. It’s good if the country is inhabited by representatives of only one Berber ethnic group. And if there are several of them, then which language should be recognized as the official one?
While in Morocco everything is going well without bloodshed, Berber unrest has not stopped for several months in neighboring Algeria. As NG already wrote, it all started with the murder of a Berber youth by police in Kabylia. A wave of protests gradually swept across several Algerian provinces. In July, to protest US support for the Algerian regime, Berbers picketed the White House during a visit to Washington by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Demonstrations also took place in front of American embassies and consulates in many countries in Europe and Africa.
OF THE 29 MILLION population of Algeria, there are about 3 million Berbers. By the time of the Arab conquest of North Africa in the 7th century, the Berbers had already developed feudal system. After the arrival of the Arabs, the process of their gradual assimilation began, Islam, the Arabic language, writing and culture began to spread. Nevertheless, the Berbers have maintained their language and customs for many centuries. The majority are Sunni Muslims in their religion; a small part, after the colonization of Algeria by France, converted to Catholicism. The Kabyles, who mainly represent the Berber population of Algeria, still retain many elements of animism, remnants of pre-Muslim beliefs and rituals, and do not observe many of the precepts of Islam. To this day, many of them live in villages that are small, closed “mini-states.”
For a long time, the Berbers resisted French and Spanish colonization. Since the colonization of Algeria, the Kabyles began to be intensively recruited into the French colonial troops and the French army, and the name of one of the Berber tribes living in Algeria - the Suava - gave the name to a special branch of the French troops: the Zouaves. The first such regiment was created back in 1831. Zouave regiments took part in almost all of France's colonial wars, the Franco-Prussian War and two world wars.
Organizer latest performances in Algeria is the "Movement for a Free Kabyle", created by a group of representatives of the Kabyle intelligentsia. The movement demands that those responsible for crimes committed against the Berbers be punished, their language recognized as an official language, national rights ensured, and the economic situation improved.
Recently, separatist slogans have been put forward more and more often. For many decades, relations between the Kabyles and Algerian Arabs were difficult. At the same time, the French colonial authorities cleverly exploited these contradictions.
The "Movement for a Free Kabylia" aims to unite all Berbers into a single state. Similar plans exist among the leaders of another group of Tuareg Berbers living in the desert regions of Algeria and Libya, as well as in Mali and Burkina Faso.
My upcoming performances:
I was not able to take enough photos, so I used, in addition to my own, some wonderful photos from the sites that are listed under the photos. I express my gratitude to the authors of the photographs, as well as the authors of articles about the Berbers, whose thoughts– I was especially pleased with this – my friends confirmed speculation. But I want to note that I do not agree with all the ideas expressed on these sites.
The main inhabitants of Morocco are not Arabs - Berbers! Nobody knows when they came to northern Africa and from where. But this happened many hundreds of years before the Arabs conquered these lands and even before the arrival of the Phoenicians.
Most Berbers today live in the mountains. There are many Berber villages. Houses made of stacked red local stone or mud huts made of the same color clay are sometimes hidden in the greenery of river valleys, sometimes climbing the slopes of mountains.
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Would the Berber ancestors continue to live in that a long time ago calmly and happily, if not for the Phoenicians. They invaded and founded cities for the sake of the slave trade, supposedly bringing civilization. But in fact, they simply established the slave trade and created the largest Middle Sea slave markets.
Most people in the world today believe that all indigenous people of Africa are blacks. But from time immemorial, blacks have inhabited Africa south of the desert. They did not cross the desert, they believed that they lived in it evil spirits- devils. And the blacks' devils... are white and blue-eyed!
By the way, so that you, dear readers, are not mistaken, I will tell you by secret what to me by secret local blacks told me back in Tanzania. It turns out that in their hearts they consider white people... dirty! After all, all the dirt is visible on white skin! And the skin itself is unpleasant: covered in moles, some strange spots, scribbled and wrinkled. Whether it's black leather! Smooth, clean, almost velvety - no flaws or even moles are visible on it. Not to mention warts.
By the way, there are still many light-eyed people among the Berbers. Was it not like them that the ancient ancestors of today’s blacks considered devils?
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The original name of this mysterious people is not “Berbers”. The Egyptians first called them “the people of the slave” - “worshipers of the sun.” “Rabu” was also pronounced “rebu.” Among the Greeks, who loved to make all words easier, “rebu” turned into “leba”, then into “liba” and, finally, into “lives” (“r” and “l” often alternate when moving from one language to another). And soon the Greeks called all of Africa Libya. They did not even suspect that in addition to the Livs, thousands of other tribes and peoples lived beyond the Sahara.
The Greeks also tried to subjugate the Livs. They partially succeeded. They even put three cities- policy, and they called this community of policies Tripoli.
By the way, Gaddafi, the undisputed ruler of Libya for many years, was born into an Arabized Berber Bedouin tribe. True, Arab blood also flowed in him. Interestingly, in the Berber-Arabic language, “Gaddafi” means something like “defiled, insulted”!
http://www.partbilet.ru/publications/jizn_polkovnika_kaddafi_v_fotografiyah_7319.html
I am sure that the Berbers settled the lands of North Africa from Europe. According to some researchers, many words in one of the Berber dialects coincide with Old Church Slavonic. I think the term “Old Church Slavonic” is incorrect in this case. It would be more correct to say - with Proto-Slavic languages. There were many Proto-Slavic peoples in Europe, and they inhabited almost most of the continent. And they were farmers too!
There is a term "Indo-European languages". Scientists classify the Berber language as Semitic-Hamitic. Of course, the languages of neighboring peoples are mixed, and the Semitic influence on the Berbers is centuries-old. But the basis of the language, if it is cleared of the “make-up” of numerous conquerors, I think, will not be Semitic!
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In Arab written sources, much has been written about the treachery of the Berbers, about their cruelty, about the fact that they cannot be trusted, that they are uneducated, wild...
The same words about the Berbers are also in Phoenician sources.
Why did the Phoenicians and Arabs write about the Berbers like this without talking to each other? Moreover, in different time? Because both of them sought to conquer and enslave them. The people you want to subjugate must first be declared second-class, incapable of anything except being slaves.
Today they are trying to impose exactly the same opinion on the whole world about all Slavs - “ Not civilah"Western" civilians».
In fact, the Berbers simply did not fit their concepts of honor and dignity into the “noble” hypocrisy of the merchant conquerors.
The Phoenicians managed to enslave the Berbers by force not only of weapons, but also of money, and the Arabs subjugated them... by religion!
The first royal dynasties of the Maghreb were Berber. Then the Berbers converted to Islam, gradually began to forget their glorious past and began to believe in their second-class status.
Is it possible to call the Berber woman... Edith Piaf, a savage, a representative of a second-class people, the favorite of all mankind?
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The Greeks, Romans, Israelis, Phoenicians, Arabs - all described their deeds in detail, because they needed to justify themselves for the abominations they committed on other peoples. Why did the Berbers need to describe the events of their lives? And what should I write about? About how their leader was bitten by a termite ant? Or how big a date ripened in a good year? It makes no sense - after all, the Guinness Book of Records did not exist at that time.
Indeed, how, from the point of view of a slave owner-“civilizer,” can one consider full-fledged farmers who get up at dawn, go to bed at nightfall, do not trade in slaves, do not organize gladiatorial fights... Those who have hardworking, obedient children; those who wash themselves with water from a river, and not from a fashionable aqueduct; finally, those who do not have an army, a unified government, brothels and... gays? But the worst thing is men loved only with women?! For the Romans, Greeks and Phoenicians this is - terrible horror! Barbaric primitive, it sucks!
Over time, the former Berber farmers truly became fierce and brave warriors. But the conquerors made them that way! The Berbers themselves would never have thought of trying to conquer Phenicia, Greece or Rome.
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This possible migration of Berbers from Europe to North Africa is not surprising.
I saw the Strait of Gibraltar. From afar, it felt like you didn’t even need to swim across it—you could step over it. Surely someone in the lands of today's Spain or Portugal is tired of his wife, fed up with ugly children who don't want to learn anything and follow the plow, an idiot leader, scoundrel neighbors... He abandoned everything and ran away with his beloved woman to the opposite bank. And how many outcast criminals in history, who did not want to accept punishment for their crimes, always fled to the outskirts of their ancestral lands or beyond their borders? Finally, entire tribes left for wilder areas, where war and hostility between tribes had not yet reached.
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Naturally, over hundreds of years, immigrants from Europe to the “New World” under the African sun quickly turned black. This is another very logical proof that in ancient times people from the north moved to the south, and not vice versa. After all, you go to the Black Sea for just a month and return with an almost Berber skin color. But I've never seen a Southerner who turned white from life in our north.
Well, where did white people come from otherwise? Came from Africa and turned into Swedes, Germans and Slavs? Did the cold winters make them so white? Or did they, like polar bears, have to change color in order to disguise themselves as ice hummocks?
Berbers, like pre-Slavs, were farmers, not traders. Lived your own labor, not taken away good. What is most important for a farmer? Peaceful life and plenty of sun for a good harvest! And therefore, the veneration of the gods of nature, and not the gods of war.
Why not our village children who grew up in garden beds, forest edges and highways?
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Farmers and those whom we now call peasants have always dreamed of the opportunity to quietly work in their beds and fields. No wonder one of the Berber tribes calls itself “ free people».
This is most likely how the northern lands of Africa were populated from today’s Morocco to the Nile River several millennia BC. After all, the Berbers were already part of the population of powerful Egypt. There were even several Berber pharaohs in Egyptian history!
Anyone who wants to get acquainted with the mummies of the Berber pharaohs can see them on the website of any museum of antiquities. Whoever finds the differences between the mummies of Berber and non-Berber pharaohs... will win a Nobel Prize!
The brilliant commander Hannibal of Carthage also had Berber blood. In his army, which at one time made a sensation throughout Europe, there was an entire Berber cavalry corps. They fiercely hated the “civilizers” of the Romans, for which the Romans considered them treacherous.
Unlike African elephants and their drivers, the Berber cavalry suffered almost no losses when crossing the Alps. It was as if the ancestral memory of the frozen ancestral home had awakened. Cheer up and go into battle with the hated barbarian Romans! Yes Yes… Romans believed Berbers barbarians, and Berbers believed barbarians Romans! But Romans won history because guessed it describe all your deeds for posterity from my point of view!
There should have been a photograph of Hannibal at this point, but I couldn't find it. If any of the excellent students of the Unified State Exam can help find it on Wikipedia, the book will be given to me as a gift. With my and Hannibal's autograph.
Since the Liv Berbers were originally peace-loving farmers and not warlike traders, they were always ruled by someone. After the Phoenicians - the Romans. For a while the Greeks, then the Arabs. The latter brought with them the Muslim religion and converted the Berbers to Islam, just as the Slavs converted to Christianity in their time: forced into voluntary okay, that is, with fire and sword.
Today in Morocco, professions are divided by nationality. Berbers, as a rule, work; Arabs sell what the Berbers have produced. Yes, it is the Berbers who produce almost all agricultural products, work cheaply to produce any goods, including under the scorching Moroccan sun in the open poisonous dyeing rooms of tanneries, where they then produce kilometers of jackets, babushkas, ottomans...
Some scholars believe that the word "Berber" meant the same thing as "barbarian" in ancient times. The words really resonate.
I don't know if this is true or not.
But today's work of many Berbers is far from barbaric - it is slavish! For example, knead paint in vats with your feet.
The houses around the paintings are by no means ruins or homeless people - these are the same cool “brand” companies that make “Armani” jackets, “Gucci” ottomans and “Brioni” babushkas for the Arab markets.
The most reliable “truck” here is a donkey. Reliable, does not require gasoline and is submissive, just like its Berber owner. And his eyes are just as joyless, as if he understands that he is loaded with the skin of his murdered “relatives”. The donkey is a donkey, but his eyes are smart: “Does the same fate really await me?”
The rulers of Morocco do not want to excavate and study the history of the Berbers. Berbers should not know their past. They must work and obey the Arabs. From school they are taught that before the arrival of the Arabs they had no past: they lived in caves, like primitive people, half-beasts! There was no writing, there was no money, they didn’t believe in God... So it’s pointless to conduct excavations to study the history of the Berbers, and it’s also dangerous. You start excavating an ancient Berber settlement, and you find oil. What then? Again, expect the NATO crusaders to visit you with their only correct belief in “divine” democracy.
Unfortunately, the Berbers themselves are not interested in their pre-Arab past. And it’s dangerous to try to remember your past - the authorities will consider it dissent.
It’s better to quietly and calmly enjoy the calm village life in the cool mountains.
When historians are silent, dreamers come out of all the cracks. Some argue that the Berbers are descendants of the Atlanteans: it is not for nothing that the mountains in which they live are called Atlas. Others generally consider them to be aliens from other planets, sort of downshifters of the Universe.
But I would like to know the truth. After all, apart from the Maasai, the Berbers are the most mysterious people of all living on Earth.
But what impressed me most was that they were descendants of the Amazons. If we take into account that the official registration at the place of residence of the Amazons, their nest, was on the Tanais River, that is, on our Don, we again turn out to be the closest relatives. Such a fantasy did not appear out of nowhere. The fact is that even Herodotus in the 5th century BC described the conquest of the north of Libya by the Amazons.
By the way, you can believe the latter. Looks like it really is Amazons inherited in North Africa and gave the Berbers a contagious example of how women could fight on an equal basis with men. For example, in the battles against the Arabs, the Berbers also fought very well on the side of the Berbers. AND queens were among the Berbers! One of them terrified the Arabs so much that they, having decided to destroy its resistance, gathered an army a hundred times larger than the Berbers. What did the queen do by name Kahina? She ordered to destroy all cities, retreat, and burn all settlements so that the Arabs would not get anything. Well, definitely our Kutuzov! By the way, pay attention to her name - Kahina. Do you know what this means in ancient Berber? Darling! How can one not remember our Ukrainian - “ kohana»?
What should the conquerors have written about the Berbers after this? From their point of view, of course, it is treachery to burn everything and leave nothing for them, the colonialists! This is how the French thought about the Russians in 1812.
Maybe our very distant ancestors, indeed, some fourth or fifth cousins great-Berbers? Otherwise, from what chromosomal bins do such Berbers come from today?
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Berber peasants, like Slavic ones, are very hospitable. And when guests arrive, the table is bound to be bursting with food. Like the Slavs, they love all kinds of pastries, sweets... Only instead of caviar spread on hard-boiled eggs, there are fruits and a lot of fresh vegetables. They, like the Europeans, are not limited to sandwiches the size of a newborn goat’s hoof, for which the fork is too big and which can only be placed on a toothpick.
And the products are fresher than in the vaunted Europe. Their apples cannot be admired like European ones - they are not for sale, but to be eaten. Ugly, but juicy. It is difficult for Berbers to explain what the expression “fresh frozen fish” means. For them it is as incredible as a sunset sunrise.
Many people don't have refrigerators. The host who received us famously said: “Products that spoil should be thrown away! And those that don’t spoil, don’t need to… buy!”
How much the life of the ancient Berbers and the Proto-Slavs has in common!
They are related by the same tools of labor, love for their native land, for their beds, for plots of six acres and... worship of women!
Today's North Africans, like most of us, have lost knowledge of their deep history, of sorts. Only here and there native music has been preserved. And on holidays, in local village squares, short, playful songs are sung, very similar to our ditties. They also improvise, composing them on the go, and also have fun and laugh. And at night they sing to the children... Berber lullabies!
And just like our Old Believers and Old Believers peasants, they have retained a respectful attitude towards a woman-wife, a woman-mother and even a woman... mother-in-law! More than among other tribes, these traditions are alive in such a Berber tribe as the Tuaregs. The ancestors of the Tuareg left all sorts of conquerors to the hottest “nooks and crannies” of the Sahara and hid there in cool dugout houses. These Tuareg Berbers were also called troglodytes. The word "troglodytes" meant " underground inhabitants " Among the Berber-troglodyte-Tuaregs, the woman is still the main person in the family. Until recently, the groom after the wedding moved... to the bride's house. Moreover, young men after 18 years of age were required to put on their faces... no, no, not a burqa, but a veil! Why, I don’t know. Maybe so that the stranger does not jinx the entire family? Or maybe, on the contrary, so that he would not be jinxed by those who did not recognize strangers?
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If a man died in battle, then the widow and children returned to her family, and did not remain to live with her father-in-law and mother-in-law. This is pretty smart in my opinion.
In the old days, women were the guardians of writing and the secrets of carpet patterns. It is especially impressive that the leader's mother could impose veto to any of his decisions, if she doesn’t like it. (Something like this today, any decision of the President of Latvia may be subject to veto American Ambassador)
I repeat once again: the Berbers never called themselves Berbers. The self-name of one of their tribes is matmata. It is not difficult to guess that the word " mother"among the Proto-Slavs and many other peoples meant the ancestor. Mom! The most terrible disgrace for a family was considered to be an insult to a woman, mother, ancestor.
Remember how Zidane responded to his mother’s insult right on the football field during a match? Headbutted the offender in the stomach! Then the whole world wondered where such manners came from? Do you know what Zidane's nationality is? Berber! Berbers do not forgive anyone for insults of their kind. Especially the insult to the mother. Mother, as for the Slavs in ancient times, and for the Berbers, is a holy woman. By the way, Berbers deny polygamy.
Why did he hit his head in the stomach? Apparently, some Berber traditions are still alive: for insulting a mother - a running headbutt in the stomach!
Here he is - the favorite of all mankind! He played for his team and the national team with dignity and left the sport with his head held high, with which he punished the offender of his kind! And, without hesitation, in front of millions of TV viewers!
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The Berbers, like the Proto-Slavs, are mystics. It is interesting that the Tuaregs often feature a cross motif in their visual arts. This gave rise to some fictional historians to suggest that the Tuaregs are the descendants of the Crusaders who settled in North Africa after the defeat.
The history of today's Berbers, fantasized by semi-scientists, as descendants of the Crusaders, did not surprise me, because back in Kenya I was told that the Maasai are the illegitimate descendants of Alexander the Great and his friends.
Wow, even scientists have begun to glitch in our fashionable mystical times. Don't scientific men know that the cross ancient symbol tribes and peoples who worshiped the sun? The sun heats the earthly world on all four sides (!) - this is what the cross meant many thousands of years before Christianity. However, today ask a Tuareg troglodyte or a dancer dressed in national costumes to explain what a cross means in an ornament of clothing or on a carpet? Finally, what is the symbol of a sign similar to the Slavic Kolovrat? They will just shrug their shoulders and, at best, answer: “Well, just for beauty.”
And we, Slavs, also cannot decipher our ancient patterns. But ancient Russian ornaments are akin to writing. According to the jointing on wedding dress the bride could be understood what kind of woman she was and even read history of this kind.
The new Arab government, after the Berbers adopted Islam, forbade them to wear sacred tribal signs on their bodies. First of all, the cross. In addition to the cross, the Tuaregs also revered “ zero" Like our ancestors, it meant the Universe, life, the integrity of being.
Women painted their faces with these two amulets as if someone was playing tic-tac-toe on their faces.
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The Berbers, naturally, obeyed the new demand of the “civilizing” colonialists and stopped painting their faces and wearing tribal jewelry. But in order to preserve them, they transferred them to ornaments in clothes and carpet patterns and sometimes allow themselves to remember the past for the sake of tourists and maintaining the “brand” of a mysterious people.
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Another interesting detail!
The Berbers not only did not recognize gold as a precious metal. They hated him! Their most sacred amulets were made of wood or silver. It was silver that the ancestors of the Berbers considered a noble metal. I believe they were right! The barbarian “civilizers” started all their wars over gold. Since traders began to rule the world, gold has turned into a karmically dangerous metal. Bloody! The Berbers and Proto-Slavs, who sensitively sensed the energies of nature, did not wear gold on their bodies - as if intuited that a gold necklace or brooch will worsen the functioning of the thyroid gland.
Unfortunately, today few people feel natural energies. Fashion and vanity have destroyed the intuition. Although since then, gold has become an even bloodier metal. I formulated the following sign for myself: the more gold jewelry a woman wears today, the more aggressively she asserts herself in life. And the cheaper it will be for anyone.
This Berber woman, dressed as a bride, does not even have a single golden beads. But so does the face. doesn't fuss! Why not a peasant woman from our distant Slavic past?
Unfortunately, some of the troglodytes in our time have surrendered to the world of consumption. They did not surrender to the conquerors, but they could not resist the dream of getting rich. We started trading and learned breed tourists. Built modern houses in cities. True, in the Sahara they retained their dugout dwellings like dachas, as well as for receiving tourists traveling for the sake of extreme light, for whom the very word “Berber” is already a brand. Isn’t it fun to return home and brag: “I spent the night with the troglodytes in the Sahara?”
While in Tunisia, anyone can go to the south of the country and stay in a Berber five star dugout or in three-star cave. True, water will flow from the tap, like from a dropper in an intensive care unit, and the Berber service will correspond to the word “troglodytes.”
In such “dungeons” there are also expensive restaurants with super food! In them you can get some extravagant zebra hoof carpaccio, giraffe ear tartare, grilled cobra cheeks, and a salad of the tongues of the famous Atlas doves, served as a compliment from an Arabian chef in a shell the size of the ear of our northern squirrel. But the compliment is free!
And they will show you a Berber show...
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And for a special fee, the local witch will tell you everything about your past life and, God forbid, he predicts the future with such an expression.
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Savor“civilizers” has finally reached the Saharan troglodytes. In my opinion, they now have not only glamorous restaurants in dugouts and cool hotels in caves, but also their own troglodyte models.
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It’s amazing how a huge people, despite all their historical troubles, not only preserved themselves, but also multiplied so much that standing anywhere in the Atlas Mountains, you can see up to a dozen Berber villages at once. And how many Berbers live today in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria!
Only recently did television appear in the homes of village Berbers, and not all of them.
Happy people!
They know nothing about the European collider and that if the experiment fails, our Mother Earth will fly into a black hole.
They are not afraid that Rockefeller and Rothschild united in their friendship against humanity...
They don’t dream of an asteroid that just one of these days will collide with our planet and turn it into dust even before it is sucked into a black hole...
The Berbers don't have flu epidemics because no one told them anything about the flu on television.
They wake up not from text messages gurgling in their mobile phones, but with the dawn...
They don’t even know that their Berber woman, who lives in Sweden, took first place at Eurovision...
Moreover, they have not heard anything about the “Buranovsky Babushki”! And also about the fact that Kirkorov quarreled with Timati, and in the American show “House 2” there is again a rift between Lucretia and Ralph, who, out of a sense of political correctness, is not informed that he is black.
In short, they don’t understand real art at all.
Maybe that’s why Berber children grow up as obedient helpers in Berber families, because the TV screen serves as a window into the world of mountains, sky and light for them! Berber TV - continuous live show in 5D format with three-dimensional image, with the smell of mountain flowers, birdsong and the sound of mountain rivers.
It may seem incredible to us to civilians, but children uncivilians-Berbers obey their parents! They are not rude to them, they do not interrupt them, and the gifts we give them are divided fairly, without noise, uproar and fights. As we would say “according to concepts”!
I'm not sure about my observation, but I think few Arabs today see these bright sides Berber life. On the contrary, many people like to tell jokes about the stinginess of the Berbers, their stupidity, and lack of education.
Having learned that I was a comedian, my guide, who accompanied me to the Berber village, began to pour out jokes at the speed of a Russian cavalryman.
For example, before entering the village he warned that if a foreigner wants to sleep with a Berber woman, he must know that half of the local population has AIDS, and half has tuberculosis, so it is advisable to achieve intimacy only with those women who cough!
Of course, I giggled for the sake of decency. But in my heart, as a professional humorist, I considered the joke unfair to the Berbers.
Again I can’t resist comparison with the Slavs. The Proto-Slavs also suffered from the same “ civilizers" And the Slavs were driven into slavery and sold to Greece, Rome, the Phoenicians... " Civils» smacked « Not civilians" And what is the result? Look at the modern map! The Slavs settled throughout the continent, and those states that smacked, remained only in memories. Why? Because the Slavs remained faithful your land. Both Berbers and Slavs call the land... Mother! Russian heroes, when they wanted to gain strength, lay down on the ground. And they became invincible.
The only way to defeat a hero on his native land is by deception!
Hercules defeated the mythical ruler of Libya Antaeus precisely by cunning. First, he tore the hero away from his land. Deprived of power! And only then was he able to overcome. This is a parable, not a documentary description of events.
(Unfortunately, no photographs of Hercules or Antheus have survived either).
All “civilizers”-colonializers-democratizers are always for valor revered cunning. In order to enslave a people, they first had to tear it away from its native land. Lose your roots! So today they are trying in every possible way to deprive the Slavs of their last strength, transport them to metropolises, exterminate folk basis- peasantry! Turn into chipped slaves, sick of low-frequency music, fussing in pursuit of virtual happiness!
Oh, how necessary it is for Western “Hercules” to tear the Slavs away from Mother Earth! However, it's not that simple!
No matter how much smacked Berber and Slavic farmers, they were still resurrected. Berbers and Slavs are Phoenix birds, which are reborn almost from the ashes every time!
Because both of them have a saving motto: “What we haven’t finished eating, we’ll finish it!”
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These guys are not weak - Berbers! Pharaohs, Hannibal's cavalry corps, Hannibal himself, Gaddafi, Zidane, Edith Piaf... And the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012!
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To be continued...
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It's all about the same thing, yeah))).
Original taken from greenyislon in THE MYSTERIOUS BERBERS (MOROCCO, PART II)
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I was not able to take enough photos, so I used, in addition to my own, some wonderful photos from the sites that are listed under the photos. I express my gratitude to the authors of the photographs, as well as the authors of articles about the Berbers, whose thoughts- I was especially pleased with this - confirmed my speculation. But I want to note that I do not agree with all the ideas expressed on these sites.
The main inhabitants of Morocco are not Arabs - Berbers! Nobody knows when they came to northern Africa and from where. But this happened many hundreds of years before the Arabs conquered these lands and even before the arrival of the Phoenicians.
Most Berbers today live in the mountains. There are many Berber villages. Houses made of stacked red local stone or mud huts made of the same color clay are sometimes hidden in the greenery of river valleys, sometimes climbing the slopes of mountains.
To make it more interesting, turn on the music and read:
Would the Berber ancestors continue to live in that a long time ago calmly and happily, if not for the Phoenicians. They invaded and founded cities for the sake of the slave trade, supposedly bringing civilization. But in fact, they simply established the slave trade and created the largest Middle Sea slave markets.
Most people in the world today believe that all indigenous people of Africa are blacks. But from time immemorial, blacks have inhabited Africa south of the desert. They did not cross the desert; they believed that evil spirits - devils - lived in it. And the blacks' devils... are white and blue-eyed!
By the way, so that you, dear readers, are not mistaken, I will tell you by secret what to me by secret local blacks told me back in Tanzania. It turns out that in their hearts they consider white people... dirty! After all, all the dirt is visible on white skin! And the skin itself is unpleasant: covered in moles, some strange spots, scribbled and wrinkled. Whether it's black leather! Smooth, clean, almost velvety - no flaws or even moles are visible on it. Not to mention warts.
By the way, there are still many light-eyed people among the Berbers. Was it not like them that the ancient ancestors of today’s blacks considered devils?
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The original name of this mysterious people is not “Berbers”. The Egyptians first called them “the people of the slave” - “worshipers of the sun.” “Rabu” was also pronounced “rebu.” Among the Greeks, who loved to make all words easier, “rebu” turned into “leba”, then into “liba” and, finally, into “lives” (“r” and “l” often alternate when moving from one language to another). And soon the Greeks called all of Africa Libya. They did not even suspect that in addition to the Livs, thousands of other tribes and peoples lived beyond the Sahara.
The Greeks also tried to subjugate the Livs. They partially succeeded. They even put three cities- policy, and they called this community of policies Tripoli.
By the way, Gaddafi, the undisputed ruler of Libya for many years, was born into an Arabized Berber Bedouin tribe. True, Arab blood also flowed in him. Interestingly, in the Berber-Arabic language, “Gaddafi” means something like “defiled, insulted”!
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I am sure that the Berbers settled the lands of North Africa from Europe. According to some researchers, many words in one of the Berber dialects coincide with Old Church Slavonic. I think the term “Old Church Slavonic” is incorrect in this case. It would be more correct to say - with Proto-Slavic languages. There were many Proto-Slavic peoples in Europe, and they inhabited almost most of the continent. And they were farmers too!
There is a term "Indo-European languages". Scientists classify the Berber language as Semitic-Hamitic. Of course, the languages of neighboring peoples are mixed, and the Semitic influence on the Berbers is centuries-old. But the basis of the language, if it is cleared of the “make-up” of numerous conquerors, I think, will not be Semitic!
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In Arab written sources, much has been written about the treachery of the Berbers, about their cruelty, about the fact that they cannot be trusted, that they are uneducated, wild...
The same words about the Berbers are also in Phoenician sources.
Why did the Phoenicians and Arabs write about the Berbers like this without talking to each other? And at different times? Because both of them sought to conquer and enslave them. The people you want to subjugate must first be declared second-class, incapable of anything except being slaves.
Today they are trying to impose exactly the same opinion on the whole world about all Slavs - “ Not civilah"Western" civilians».
In fact, the Berbers simply did not fit their concepts of honor and dignity into the “noble” hypocrisy of the merchant conquerors.
The Phoenicians managed to enslave the Berbers by force not only of weapons, but also of money, and the Arabs subjugated them... by religion!
The first royal dynasties of the Maghreb are Berber. Then the Berbers converted to Islam, gradually began to forget their glorious past and began to believe in their second-class status.
Is it possible to call the Berber woman... Edith Piaf, a savage, a representative of a second-class people, the favorite of all mankind?
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The Greeks, Romans, Israelis, Phoenicians, Arabs - all described their deeds in detail, because they needed to justify themselves for the abominations that they inflicted on other peoples. Why did the Berbers need to describe the events of their lives? And what should I write about? About how their leader was bitten by a termite ant? Or how big a date ripened in a good year? It makes no sense - after all, the Guinness Book of Records did not exist at that time.
Indeed, how, from the point of view of a slave owner-“civilizer,” can one consider full-fledged farmers who get up at dawn, go to bed at nightfall, do not trade in slaves, do not organize gladiatorial fights... Those who have hardworking, obedient children; those who wash themselves with water from a river, and not from a fashionable aqueduct; finally, those who do not have an army, a unified government, brothels and... gays? But the worst thing is men loved only with women?! For the Romans, Greeks and Phoenicians this is - terrible horror! Barbaric primitive, it sucks!
Over time, the former Berber farmers truly became fierce and brave warriors. But the conquerors made them that way! The Berbers themselves would never have thought of trying to conquer Phenicia, Greece or Rome.
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This possible migration of Berbers from Europe to North Africa is not surprising.
I saw the Strait of Gibraltar. From a distance, there was a feeling that you didn’t even need to swim across it - you could step over it. Surely someone in the lands of today's Spain or Portugal is tired of his wife, fed up with ugly children who don't want to learn anything and follow the plow, an idiot leader, scoundrel neighbors... He abandoned everything and ran away with his beloved woman to the opposite bank. And how many outcast criminals in history, who did not want to accept punishment for their crimes, always fled to the outskirts of their ancestral lands or beyond their borders? Finally, entire tribes left for wilder areas, where war and hostility between tribes had not yet reached.
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Naturally, over hundreds of years, immigrants from Europe to the “New World” under the African sun quickly turned black. This is another very logical proof that in ancient times people from the north moved to the south, and not vice versa. After all, you go to the Black Sea for just a month and return with an almost Berber skin color. But I've never seen a Southerner who turned white from life in our north.
Well, where did white people come from otherwise? Came from Africa and turned into Swedes, Germans and Slavs? Did the cold winters make them so white? Or did they, like polar bears, have to change color in order to disguise themselves as ice hummocks?
Berbers, like pre-Slavs, were farmers, not traders. Lived your own labor, not taken away good. What is most important for a farmer? Peaceful life and plenty of sun for a good harvest! And therefore, the veneration of the gods of nature, and not the gods of war.
Why not our village children who grew up in garden beds, forest edges and highways?
miroland.com
Farmers and those whom we now call peasants have always dreamed of the opportunity to quietly work in their beds and fields. No wonder one of the Berber tribes calls itself “ free people».
This is most likely how the northern lands of Africa were populated from today’s Morocco to the Nile River several millennia BC. After all, the Berbers were already part of the population of powerful Egypt. There were even several Berber pharaohs in Egyptian history!
Anyone who wants to get acquainted with the mummies of the Berber pharaohs can see them on the website of any museum of antiquities. Whoever finds the differences between the mummies of Berber and non-Berber pharaohs... will win a Nobel Prize!
The brilliant commander Hannibal of Carthage also had Berber blood. In his army, which at one time made a sensation throughout Europe, there was an entire Berber cavalry corps. They fiercely hated the “civilizers” of the Romans, for which the Romans considered them treacherous.
Unlike African elephants and their drivers, the Berber cavalry suffered almost no losses when crossing the Alps. It was as if the ancestral memory of the frozen ancestral home had awakened. Cheer up and go into battle with the hated barbarian Romans! Yes Yes… Romans believed Berbers barbarians, and Berbers believed barbarians Romans! But Romans won history because guessed it describe all your deeds for posterity from my point of view!
There should have been a photograph of Hannibal at this point, but I couldn't find it. If one of the excellent students of the Unified State Examination helps to find it on Wikipedia, the book will be given to me as a gift. With my and Hannibal's autograph.
Since the Liv Berbers were originally peace-loving farmers and not warlike traders, they were always ruled by someone. After the Phoenicians - the Romans. For a while the Greeks, then the Arabs. The latter brought with them the Muslim religion and converted the Berbers to Islam, just as the Slavs converted to Christianity in their time: forced into voluntary okay, that is, with fire and sword.
Today in Morocco, professions are divided by nationality. Berbers, as a rule, work; Arabs sell what the Berbers have produced. Yes, it is the Berbers who produce almost all agricultural products, work cheaply to produce any goods, including under the scorching Moroccan sun in the open poisonous dyeing rooms of tanneries, where they then produce kilometers of jackets, babushkas, ottomans...
Some scholars believe that the word "Berber" meant the same thing as "barbarian" in ancient times. The words really resonate.
I don't know if this is true or not.
But today's work of many Berbers is far from barbaric - it is slavish! For example, knead paint in vats with your feet.
The houses around the paintings are by no means ruins or homeless people - these are the same cool “brand” companies that make “Armani” jackets, “Gucci” ottomans and “Brioni” babushkas for the Arab markets.
The most reliable “truck” here is a donkey. Reliable, does not require gasoline and is submissive, just like its Berber owner. And his eyes are just as joyless, as if he understands that he is loaded with the skin of his murdered “relatives”. The donkey is a donkey, but his eyes are smart: “Does the same fate really await me?”
The rulers of Morocco do not want to excavate and study the history of the Berbers. Berbers should not know their past. They must work and obey the Arabs. From school they are taught that before the arrival of the Arabs they had no past: they lived in caves, like primitive people, half-beasts! There was no writing, there was no money, they didn’t believe in God... So it’s pointless to conduct excavations to study the history of the Berbers, and it’s also dangerous. You start excavating an ancient Berber settlement, and you find oil. What then? Again, expect the NATO crusaders to visit you with their only correct belief in “divine” democracy.
Unfortunately, the Berbers themselves are not interested in their pre-Arab past. And it’s dangerous to try to remember your past - the authorities will consider it dissent.
It’s better to quietly and peacefully enjoy the calm village life in the cool mountains.
When historians are silent, dreamers come out of all the cracks. Some argue that the Berbers are descendants of the Atlanteans: it is not for nothing that the mountains in which they live are called Atlas. Others generally consider them to be aliens from other planets, sort of downshifters of the Universe.
But I would like to know the truth. After all, apart from the Maasai, the Berbers are the most mysterious people of all living on Earth.
But what impressed me most was that they were descendants of the Amazons. If we take into account that the official registration at the place of residence of the Amazons, their nest, was on the Tanais River, that is, on our Don, we again turn out to be the closest relatives. Such a fantasy did not appear out of nowhere. The fact is that even Herodotus in the 5th century BC described the conquest of the north of Libya by the Amazons.
By the way, you can believe the latter. Looks like it really is Amazons inherited in North Africa and gave the Berbers a contagious example of how women could fight on an equal basis with men. For example, in the battles against the Arabs, the Berbers also fought very well on the side of the Berbers. AND queens were among the Berbers! One of them terrified the Arabs so much that they, having decided to destroy its resistance, gathered an army a hundred times larger than the Berbers. What did the queen do by name Kahina? She ordered to destroy all cities, retreat, and burn all settlements so that the Arabs would not get anything. Well, definitely our Kutuzov! By the way, pay attention to her name - Kahina. Do you know what this means in ancient Berber? Darling! How can one not remember our Ukrainian - “ kohana»?
What should the conquerors have written about the Berbers after this? From their point of view, of course, it is treachery to burn everything and leave nothing for them, the colonialists! This is how the French thought about the Russians in 1812.
Maybe our very distant ancestors, indeed, some fourth or fifth cousins great-Berbers? Otherwise, from what chromosomal bins do such Berbers come from today?
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Berber peasants, like Slavic ones, are very hospitable. And when guests arrive, the table is bound to be bursting with food. Like the Slavs, they love all kinds of pastries, sweets... Only instead of caviar spread on hard-boiled eggs, there are fruits and a lot of fresh vegetables. They, like the Europeans, are not limited to sandwiches the size of a newborn goat’s hoof, for which the fork is too big and which can only be placed on a toothpick.
And the products are fresher than in the vaunted Europe. Their apples cannot be admired like European ones - they are not for sale, but to be eaten. Ugly, but juicy. It is difficult for Berbers to explain what the expression “fresh frozen fish” means. For them it is as incredible as a sunset sunrise.
Many people don't have refrigerators. The host who received us famously said: “Products that spoil should be thrown away! And those that don’t spoil, don’t need to… buy!”
How much the life of the ancient Berbers and the Proto-Slavs has in common!
They are related by the same tools of labor, love for their native land, for their beds, for plots of six acres and... worship of women!
Today's North Africans, like most of us, have lost knowledge of their deep history, of sorts. Only here and there native music has been preserved. And on holidays, in local village squares, short, playful songs are sung, very similar to our ditties. They also improvise, composing them on the go, and also have fun and laugh. And at night they sing to the children... Berber lullabies!
And just like our Old Believers and Old Believers peasants, they have retained a respectful attitude towards a woman-wife, a woman-mother and even a woman... mother-in-law! More than among other tribes, these traditions are alive in such a Berber tribe as the Tuaregs. The ancestors of the Tuareg left all sorts of conquerors to the hottest “nooks and crannies” of the Sahara and hid there in cool dugout houses. These Tuareg Berbers were also called troglodytes. The word "troglodytes" meant " underground inhabitants" Among the Berber-troglodyte-Tuaregs, the woman is still the head of the family. Until recently, the groom after the wedding moved... to the bride's house. Moreover, young men after 18 years of age were required to put on their faces... no, no, not a burqa, but a veil! Why, I don’t know. Maybe so that the stranger does not jinx the entire family? Or maybe, on the contrary, so that he would not be jinxed by those who did not recognize strangers?
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If a man died in battle, then the widow and children returned to her family, and did not remain to live with her father-in-law and mother-in-law. This is pretty smart in my opinion.
In the old days, women were the guardians of writing and the secrets of carpet patterns. It is especially impressive that the leader's mother could impose veto to any of his decisions, if she doesn’t like it. (Something like this today, any decision of the President of Latvia may be subject to veto American Ambassador)
I repeat once again: the Berbers never called themselves Berbers. The self-name of one of their tribes is matmata. It is not difficult to guess that the word " mother"among the Proto-Slavs and many other peoples meant the ancestor. Mom! The most terrible disgrace for a family was considered to be an insult to a woman, mother, ancestor.
Remember how Zidane responded to his mother’s insult right on the football field during a match? Headbutted the offender in the stomach! Then the whole world wondered where such manners came from? Do you know what Zidane's nationality is? Berber! Berbers do not forgive anyone for insults of their kind. Especially the insult to the mother. Mother, as for the Slavs in ancient times, and for the Berbers, is a holy woman. By the way, Berbers deny polygamy.
Why did he hit his head in the stomach? Apparently, some Berber traditions are still alive: for insulting a mother - a running headbutt in the stomach!
Here he is - the favorite of all mankind! He played for his team and the national team with dignity and left the sport with his head held high, with which he punished the offender of his kind! And, without hesitation, in front of millions of TV viewers!
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The Berbers, like the Proto-Slavs, are mystics. It is interesting that the Tuaregs often feature a cross motif in their visual arts. This gave rise to some fictional historians to suggest that the Tuaregs are the descendants of the Crusaders who settled in North Africa after the defeat.
The history of today's Berbers, fantasized by semi-scientists, as descendants of the Crusaders, did not surprise me, because back in Kenya I was told that the Maasai are the illegitimate descendants of Alexander the Great and his friends.
Wow, even scientists have begun to glitch in our fashionable mystical times. Don’t scientists really know that the cross is the oldest symbol of tribes and peoples who worshiped the sun? The sun heats the earthly world on all four sides (!) - this is what the cross meant many thousands of years before Christianity. However, today ask a Tuareg troglodyte or a dancer dressed in national costumes to explain what a cross means in an ornament of clothing or on a carpet? Finally, what is the symbol of a sign similar to the Slavic Kolovrat? They will just shrug their shoulders and, at best, answer: “Well, just for beauty.”
And we, Slavs, also cannot decipher our ancient patterns. But ancient Russian ornaments are akin to writing. From the stitching on the bride's wedding dress, one could understand what kind of woman she was and even read history of this kind.
The new Arab government, after the Berbers adopted Islam, forbade them to wear sacred tribal signs on their bodies. First of all, the cross. In addition to the cross, the Tuaregs also revered “ zero" Like our ancestors, it meant the Universe, life, the integrity of being.
Women painted their faces with these two amulets as if someone was playing tic-tac-toe on their faces.
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The Berbers, naturally, obeyed the new demand of the “civilizing” colonialists and stopped painting their faces and wearing tribal jewelry. But in order to preserve them, they transferred them to ornaments in clothes and carpet patterns and sometimes allow themselves to remember the past for the sake of tourists and maintaining the “brand” of a mysterious people.
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Another interesting detail!
The Berbers not only did not recognize gold as a precious metal. They hated him! Their most sacred amulets were made of wood or silver. It was silver that the ancestors of the Berbers considered a noble metal. I believe they were right! The barbarian “civilizers” started all their wars over gold. Since traders began to rule the world, gold has turned into a karmically dangerous metal. Bloody! The Berbers and Proto-Slavs, who sensitively sensed the energies of nature, did not wear gold on their bodies - as if intuited that a gold necklace or brooch will worsen the functioning of the thyroid gland.
Unfortunately, today few people feel natural energies. Fashion and vanity have destroyed the intuition. Although since then, gold has become an even bloodier metal. I formulated the following sign for myself: the more gold jewelry a woman wears today, the more aggressively she asserts herself in life. And the cheaper it will be for anyone.
This Berber woman, dressed as a bride, does not even have a single golden beads. But so does the face. doesn't fuss! Why not a peasant woman from our distant Slavic past?
Unfortunately, some of the troglodytes in our time have surrendered to the world of consumption. They did not surrender to the conquerors, but they could not resist the dream of getting rich. We started trading and learned breed tourists. They built modern houses in cities. True, in the Sahara they retained their dugout dwellings like dachas, as well as for receiving tourists traveling for the sake of extreme light, for whom the very word “Berber” is already a brand. Isn’t it fun to return home and brag: “I spent the night with the troglodytes in the Sahara?”
While in Tunisia, anyone can go to the south of the country and stay in a Berber five star dugout or in three-star cave. True, water will flow from the tap, like from a dropper in an intensive care unit, and the Berber service will correspond to the word “troglodytes.”
In such “dungeons” there are also expensive restaurants with super food! In them you can get some extravagant zebra hoof carpaccio, giraffe ear tartare, grilled cobra cheeks, and a salad of the tongues of the famous Atlas doves, served as a compliment from an Arabian chef in a shell the size of the ear of our northern squirrel. But the compliment is free!
And they will show you a Berber show...
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And for a special fee, the local witch will tell you everything about your past life and, God forbid, predict the future with such an expression on her face.
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The social life of the “civilizers” has finally reached the Saharan troglodytes. In my opinion, they now have not only glamorous restaurants in dugouts and cool hotels in caves, but also their own troglodyte models.
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It’s amazing how a huge people, despite all their historical troubles, not only preserved themselves, but also multiplied so much that standing anywhere in the Atlas Mountains, you can see up to a dozen Berber villages at once. And how many Berbers live today in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria!
Only recently did television appear in the homes of village Berbers, and not all of them.
Happy people!
They know nothing about the European collider and that if the experiment fails, our Mother Earth will fly into a black hole.
They are not afraid that Rockefeller and Rothschild united in their friendship against humanity...
They don’t dream of an asteroid that just one of these days will collide with our planet and turn it into dust even before it is sucked into a black hole...
The Berbers don't have flu epidemics because no one told them anything about the flu on television.
They wake up not from text messages gurgling in their mobile phones, but with the dawn...
They don’t even know that their Berber woman, who lives in Sweden, took first place at Eurovision...
Moreover, they have not heard anything about the “Buranovsky Babushki”! And also about the fact that Kirkorov quarreled with Timati, and in the American show “House 2” there is again a rift between Lucretia and Ralph, who, out of a sense of political correctness, is not informed that he is black.
In short, they don’t understand real art at all.
Maybe that’s why Berber children grow up as obedient helpers in Berber families, because the TV screen serves as a window into the world of mountains, sky and light for them! Berber TV is a continuous live show in 5D format with a three-dimensional image, with the smell of mountain flowers, birdsong and the sound of mountain rivers.
It may seem incredible to us to civilians, but children uncivilians-Berbers obey their parents! They are not rude to them, they do not interrupt them, and the gifts we give them are divided fairly, without noise, uproar and fights. As we would say “according to concepts”!
I'm not sure of my observation, but in my opinion, few of today's Arabs see these bright sides of Berber life. On the contrary, many people like to tell jokes about the stinginess of the Berbers, their stupidity, and lack of education.
Having learned that I was a comedian, my guide, who accompanied me to the Berber village, began to pour out jokes at the speed of a Russian cavalryman.
For example, before entering the village he warned that if a foreigner wants to sleep with a Berber woman, he must know that half of the local population has AIDS, and half has tuberculosis, so it is advisable to achieve intimacy only with those women who cough!
Of course, I giggled for the sake of decency. But in my heart, as a professional humorist, I considered the joke unfair to the Berbers.
Again I can’t resist comparison with the Slavs. The Proto-Slavs also suffered from the same “ civilizers" And the Slavs were driven into slavery and sold to Greece, Rome, the Phoenicians... " Civils» smacked « Not civilians" And what is the result? Look at the modern map! The Slavs settled throughout the continent, and those states that smacked, remained only in memories. Why? Because the Slavs remained faithful your land. Both Berbers and Slavs call the land... Mother! Russian heroes, when they wanted to gain strength, lay down on the ground. And they became invincible.
The only way to defeat a hero on his native land is by deception!
Hercules defeated the mythical ruler of Libya Antaeus precisely by cunning. First, he tore the hero away from his land. Deprived of power! And only then was he able to overcome. This is a parable, not a documentary description of events.
(Unfortunately, no photographs of Hercules or Antheus have survived either).
All “civilizers”-colonialists-democratizers are always for valor revered cunning. In order to enslave a people, they first had to tear it away from its native land. Lose your roots! So today they are trying in every possible way to deprive the Slavs of their last strength, to transport them to metropolises, destroying the basis of the people - the peasantry! Turn into chipped slaves, sick of low-frequency music, fussing in pursuit of virtual happiness!
Oh, how necessary it is for Western “Hercules” to tear the Slavs away from Mother Earth! However, it's not that simple!
No matter how much smacked Berber and Slavic farmers, they were still resurrected. Berbers and Slavs are Phoenix birds, which are reborn almost from the ashes every time!
Because both of them have a saving motto: “What we haven’t finished eating, we’ll finish it!”
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These guys are not weak - Berbers! Pharaohs, Hannibal's cavalry corps, Hannibal himself, Gaddafi, Zidane, Edith Piaf... And the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012!
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To be continued...
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Original taken from greenyislon in THE MYSTERIOUS BERBERS (MOROCCO, PART II)
The main inhabitants of Morocco are not Arabs - Berbers! Nobody knows when they came to northern Africa and from where. But this happened many hundreds of years before the Arabs conquered these lands and even before the arrival of the Phoenicians.
Most Berbers today live in the mountains. There are many Berber villages. Houses made of stacked red local stone or mud huts made of the same color clay are sometimes hidden in the greenery of river valleys, sometimes climbing the slopes of mountains.
To make it more interesting, turn on the music and read:
Would the Berber ancestors continue to live in that a long time ago calmly and happily, if not for the Phoenicians. They invaded and founded cities for the sake of the slave trade, supposedly bringing civilization. But in fact, they simply established the slave trade and created the largest Middle Sea slave markets.
Most people in the world today believe that all indigenous people of Africa are blacks. But from time immemorial, blacks have inhabited Africa south of the desert. They did not cross the desert; they believed that evil spirits - devils - lived in it. And the blacks' devils... are white and blue-eyed!
By the way, so that you, dear readers, are not mistaken, I will tell you by secret what to me by secret local blacks told me back in Tanzania. It turns out that in their hearts they consider white people... dirty! After all, all the dirt is visible on white skin! And the skin itself is unpleasant: covered in moles, some strange spots, scribbled and wrinkled. Whether it's black leather! Smooth, clean, almost velvety - no flaws or even moles are visible on it. Not to mention warts.
By the way, there are still many light-eyed people among the Berbers. Was it not like them that the ancient ancestors of today’s blacks considered devils?
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The original name of this mysterious people is not “Berbers”. The Egyptians first called them “the people of the slave” - “worshipers of the sun.” “Rabu” was also pronounced “rebu.” Among the Greeks, who loved to make all words easier, “rebu” turned into “leba”, then into “liba” and, finally, into “lives” (“r” and “l” often alternate when moving from one language to another). And soon the Greeks called all of Africa Libya. They did not even suspect that in addition to the Livs, thousands of other tribes and peoples lived beyond the Sahara.
The Greeks also tried to subjugate the Livs. They partially succeeded. They even put three cities- policy, and they called this community of policies Tripoli.
By the way, Gaddafi, the undisputed ruler of Libya for many years, was born into an Arabized Berber Bedouin tribe. True, Arab blood also flowed in him. Interestingly, in the Berber-Arabic language, “Gaddafi” means something like “defiled, insulted”!
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I am sure that the Berbers settled the lands of North Africa from Europe. According to some researchers, many words in one of the Berber dialects coincide with Old Church Slavonic. I think the term “Old Church Slavonic” is incorrect in this case. It would be more correct to say - with Proto-Slavic languages. There were many Proto-Slavic peoples in Europe, and they inhabited almost most of the continent. And they were farmers too!
There is a term "Indo-European languages". Scientists classify the Berber language as Semitic-Hamitic. Of course, the languages of neighboring peoples are mixed, and the Semitic influence on the Berbers is centuries-old. But the basis of the language, if it is cleared of the “make-up” of numerous conquerors, I think, will not be Semitic!
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In Arab written sources, much has been written about the treachery of the Berbers, about their cruelty, about the fact that they cannot be trusted, that they are uneducated, wild...
The same words about the Berbers are also in Phoenician sources.
Why did the Phoenicians and Arabs write about the Berbers like this without talking to each other? And at different times? Because both of them sought to conquer and enslave them. The people you want to subjugate must first be declared second-class, incapable of anything except being slaves.
Today they are trying to impose exactly the same opinion on the whole world about all Slavs - “ Not civilah"Western" civilians».
In fact, the Berbers simply did not fit their concepts of honor and dignity into the “noble” hypocrisy of the merchant conquerors.
The Phoenicians managed to enslave the Berbers by force not only of weapons, but also of money, and the Arabs subjugated them... by religion!
The first royal dynasties of the Maghreb are Berber. Then the Berbers converted to Islam, gradually began to forget their glorious past and began to believe in their second-class status.
Is it possible to call the Berber woman... Edith Piaf, a savage, a representative of a second-class people, the favorite of all mankind?
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The Greeks, Romans, Israelis, Phoenicians, Arabs - all described their deeds in detail, because they needed to justify themselves for the abominations that they inflicted on other peoples. Why did the Berbers need to describe the events of their lives? And what should I write about? About how their leader was bitten by a termite ant? Or how big a date ripened in a good year? It makes no sense - after all, the Guinness Book of Records did not exist at that time.
Indeed, how, from the point of view of a slave owner-“civilizer,” can one consider full-fledged farmers who get up at dawn, go to bed at nightfall, do not trade in slaves, do not organize gladiatorial fights... Those who have hardworking, obedient children; those who wash themselves with water from a river, and not from a fashionable aqueduct; finally, those who do not have an army, a unified government, brothels and... gays? But the worst thing is men loved only with women?! For the Romans, Greeks and Phoenicians this is - terrible horror! Barbaric primitive, it sucks!
Over time, the former Berber farmers truly became fierce and brave warriors. But the conquerors made them that way! The Berbers themselves would never have thought of trying to conquer Phenicia, Greece or Rome.
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This possible migration of Berbers from Europe to North Africa is not surprising.
I saw the Strait of Gibraltar. From a distance, there was a feeling that you didn’t even need to swim across it - you could step over it. Surely someone in the lands of today's Spain or Portugal is tired of his wife, fed up with ugly children who don't want to learn anything and follow the plow, an idiot leader, scoundrel neighbors... He abandoned everything and ran away with his beloved woman to the opposite bank. And how many outcast criminals in history, who did not want to accept punishment for their crimes, always fled to the outskirts of their ancestral lands or beyond their borders? Finally, entire tribes left for wilder areas, where war and hostility between tribes had not yet reached.
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Naturally, over hundreds of years, immigrants from Europe to the “New World” under the African sun quickly turned black. This is another very logical proof that in ancient times people from the north moved to the south, and not vice versa. After all, you go to the Black Sea for just a month and return with an almost Berber skin color. But I've never seen a Southerner who turned white from life in our north.
Well, where did white people come from otherwise? Came from Africa and turned into Swedes, Germans and Slavs? Did the cold winters make them so white? Or did they, like polar bears, have to change color in order to disguise themselves as ice hummocks?
Berbers, like pre-Slavs, were farmers, not traders. Lived your own labor, not taken away good. What is most important for a farmer? Peaceful life and plenty of sun for a good harvest! And therefore, the veneration of the gods of nature, and not the gods of war.
Why not our village children who grew up in garden beds, forest edges and highways?
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Farmers and those whom we now call peasants have always dreamed of the opportunity to quietly work in their beds and fields. No wonder one of the Berber tribes calls itself “ free people».
This is most likely how the northern lands of Africa were populated from today’s Morocco to the Nile River several millennia BC. After all, the Berbers were already part of the population of powerful Egypt. There were even several Berber pharaohs in Egyptian history!
Anyone who wants to get acquainted with the mummies of the Berber pharaohs can see them on the website of any museum of antiquities. Whoever finds the differences between the mummies of Berber and non-Berber pharaohs... will win a Nobel Prize!
The brilliant commander Hannibal of Carthage also had Berber blood. In his army, which at one time made a sensation throughout Europe, there was an entire Berber cavalry corps. They fiercely hated the “civilizers” of the Romans, for which the Romans considered them treacherous.
Unlike African elephants and their drivers, the Berber cavalry suffered almost no losses when crossing the Alps. It was as if the ancestral memory of the frozen ancestral home had awakened. Cheer up and go into battle with the hated barbarian Romans! Yes Yes… Romans believed Berbers barbarians, and Berbers believed barbarians Romans! But Romans won history because guessed it describe all your deeds for posterity from my point of view!
There should have been a photograph of Hannibal at this point, but I couldn't find it. If one of the excellent students of the Unified State Examination helps to find it on Wikipedia, the book will be given to me as a gift. With my and Hannibal's autograph.
Since the Liv Berbers were originally peace-loving farmers and not warlike traders, they were always ruled by someone. After the Phoenicians - the Romans. For a while the Greeks, then the Arabs. The latter brought with them the Muslim religion and converted the Berbers to Islam, just as the Slavs converted to Christianity in their time: forced into voluntary okay, that is, with fire and sword.
Today in Morocco, professions are divided by nationality. Berbers, as a rule, work; Arabs sell what the Berbers have produced. Yes, it is the Berbers who produce almost all agricultural products, work cheaply to produce any goods, including under the scorching Moroccan sun in the open poisonous dyeing rooms of tanneries, where they then produce kilometers of jackets, babushkas, ottomans...
Some scholars believe that the word "Berber" meant the same thing as "barbarian" in ancient times. The words really resonate.
I don't know if this is true or not.
But today's work of many Berbers is far from barbaric - it is slavish! For example, knead paint in vats with your feet.
The houses around the paintings are by no means ruins or homeless people - these are the same cool “brand” companies that make “Armani” jackets, “Gucci” ottomans and “Brioni” babushkas for the Arab markets.
The most reliable “truck” here is a donkey. Reliable, does not require gasoline and is submissive, just like its Berber owner. And his eyes are just as joyless, as if he understands that he is loaded with the skin of his murdered “relatives”. The donkey is a donkey, but his eyes are smart: “Does the same fate really await me?”
The rulers of Morocco do not want to excavate and study the history of the Berbers. Berbers should not know their past. They must work and obey the Arabs. From school they are taught that before the arrival of the Arabs they had no past: they lived in caves, like primitive people, half-beasts! There was no writing, there was no money, they didn’t believe in God... So it’s pointless to conduct excavations to study the history of the Berbers, and it’s also dangerous. You start excavating an ancient Berber settlement, and you find oil. What then? Again, expect the NATO crusaders to visit you with their only correct belief in “divine” democracy.
Unfortunately, the Berbers themselves are not interested in their pre-Arab past. And it’s dangerous to try to remember your past - the authorities will consider it dissent.
It’s better to quietly and peacefully enjoy the calm village life in the cool mountains.
When historians are silent, dreamers come out of all the cracks. Some argue that the Berbers are descendants of the Atlanteans: it is not for nothing that the mountains in which they live are called Atlas. Others generally consider them to be aliens from other planets, sort of downshifters of the Universe.
But I would like to know the truth. After all, apart from the Maasai, the Berbers are the most mysterious people of all living on Earth.
But what impressed me most was that they were descendants of the Amazons. If we take into account that the official registration at the place of residence of the Amazons, their nest, was on the Tanais River, that is, on our Don, we again turn out to be the closest relatives. Such a fantasy did not appear out of nowhere. The fact is that even Herodotus in the 5th century BC described the conquest of the north of Libya by the Amazons.
By the way, you can believe the latter. Looks like it really is Amazons inherited in North Africa and gave the Berbers a contagious example of how women could fight on an equal basis with men. For example, in the battles against the Arabs, the Berbers also fought very well on the side of the Berbers. AND queens were among the Berbers! One of them terrified the Arabs so much that they, having decided to destroy its resistance, gathered an army a hundred times larger than the Berbers. What did the queen do by name Kahina? She ordered to destroy all cities, retreat, and burn all settlements so that the Arabs would not get anything. Well, definitely our Kutuzov! By the way, pay attention to her name - Kahina. Do you know what this means in ancient Berber? Darling! How can one not remember our Ukrainian - “ kohana»?
What should the conquerors have written about the Berbers after this? From their point of view, of course, it is treachery to burn everything and leave nothing for them, the colonialists! This is how the French thought about the Russians in 1812.
Maybe our very distant ancestors, indeed, some fourth or fifth cousins great-Berbers? Otherwise, from what chromosomal bins do such Berbers come from today?
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Berber peasants, like Slavic ones, are very hospitable. And when guests arrive, the table is bound to be bursting with food. Like the Slavs, they love all kinds of pastries, sweets... Only instead of caviar spread on hard-boiled eggs, there are fruits and a lot of fresh vegetables. They, like the Europeans, are not limited to sandwiches the size of a newborn goat’s hoof, for which the fork is too big and which can only be placed on a toothpick.
And the products are fresher than in the vaunted Europe. Their apples cannot be admired like European ones - they are not for sale, but to be eaten. Ugly, but juicy. It is difficult for Berbers to explain what the expression “fresh frozen fish” means. For them it is as incredible as a sunset sunrise.
Many people don't have refrigerators. The host who received us famously said: “Products that spoil should be thrown away! And those that don’t spoil, don’t need to… buy!”
How much the life of the ancient Berbers and the Proto-Slavs has in common!
They are related by the same tools of labor, love for their native land, for their beds, for plots of six acres and... worship of women!
Today's North Africans, like most of us, have lost knowledge of their deep history, of sorts. Only here and there native music has been preserved. And on holidays, in local village squares, short, playful songs are sung, very similar to our ditties. They also improvise, composing them on the go, and also have fun and laugh. And at night they sing to the children... Berber lullabies!
And just like our Old Believers and Old Believers peasants, they have retained a respectful attitude towards a woman-wife, a woman-mother and even a woman... mother-in-law! More than among other tribes, these traditions are alive in such a Berber tribe as the Tuaregs. The ancestors of the Tuareg left all sorts of conquerors to the hottest “nooks and crannies” of the Sahara and hid there in cool dugout houses. These Tuareg Berbers were also called troglodytes. The word "troglodytes" meant " underground inhabitants" Among the Berber-troglodyte-Tuaregs, the woman is still the head of the family. Until recently, the groom after the wedding moved... to the bride's house. Moreover, young men after 18 years of age were required to put on their faces... no, no, not a burqa, but a veil! Why, I don’t know. Maybe so that the stranger does not jinx the entire family? Or maybe, on the contrary, so that he would not be jinxed by those who did not recognize strangers?
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If a man died in battle, then the widow and children returned to her family, and did not remain to live with her father-in-law and mother-in-law. This is pretty smart in my opinion.
In the old days, women were the guardians of writing and the secrets of carpet patterns. It is especially impressive that the leader's mother could impose veto to any of his decisions, if she doesn’t like it. (Something like this today, any decision of the President of Latvia may be subject to veto American Ambassador)
I repeat once again: the Berbers never called themselves Berbers. The self-name of one of their tribes is matmata. It is not difficult to guess that the word " mother"among the Proto-Slavs and many other peoples meant the ancestor. Mom! The most terrible disgrace for a family was considered to be an insult to a woman, mother, ancestor.
Remember how Zidane responded to his mother’s insult right on the football field during a match? Headbutted the offender in the stomach! Then the whole world wondered where such manners came from? Do you know what Zidane's nationality is? Berber! Berbers do not forgive anyone for insults of their kind. Especially the insult to the mother. Mother, as for the Slavs in ancient times, and for the Berbers, is a holy woman. By the way, Berbers deny polygamy.
Why did he hit his head in the stomach? Apparently, some Berber traditions are still alive: for insulting a mother - a running headbutt in the stomach!
Here he is - the favorite of all mankind! He played for his team and the national team with dignity and left the sport with his head held high, with which he punished the offender of his kind! And, without hesitation, in front of millions of TV viewers!
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The Berbers, like the Proto-Slavs, are mystics. It is interesting that the Tuaregs often feature a cross motif in their visual arts. This gave rise to some fictional historians to suggest that the Tuaregs are the descendants of the Crusaders who settled in North Africa after the defeat.
The history of today's Berbers, fantasized by semi-scientists, as descendants of the Crusaders, did not surprise me, because back in Kenya I was told that the Maasai are the illegitimate descendants of Alexander the Great and his friends.
Wow, even scientists have begun to glitch in our fashionable mystical times. Don’t scientists really know that the cross is the oldest symbol of tribes and peoples who worshiped the sun? The sun heats the earthly world on all four sides (!) - this is what the cross meant many thousands of years before Christianity. However, today ask a Tuareg troglodyte or a dancer dressed in national costumes to explain what a cross means in an ornament of clothing or on a carpet? Finally, what is the symbol of a sign similar to the Slavic Kolovrat? They will just shrug their shoulders and, at best, answer: “Well, just for beauty.”
And we, Slavs, also cannot decipher our ancient patterns. But ancient Russian ornaments are akin to writing. From the stitching on the bride's wedding dress, one could understand what kind of woman she was and even read history of this kind.
The new Arab government, after the Berbers adopted Islam, forbade them to wear sacred tribal signs on their bodies. First of all, the cross. In addition to the cross, the Tuaregs also revered “ zero" Like our ancestors, it meant the Universe, life, the integrity of being.
Women painted their faces with these two amulets as if someone was playing tic-tac-toe on their faces.
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The Berbers, naturally, obeyed the new demand of the “civilizing” colonialists and stopped painting their faces and wearing tribal jewelry. But in order to preserve them, they transferred them to ornaments in clothes and carpet patterns and sometimes allow themselves to remember the past for the sake of tourists and maintaining the “brand” of a mysterious people.
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Another interesting detail!
The Berbers not only did not recognize gold as a precious metal. They hated him! Their most sacred amulets were made of wood or silver. It was silver that the ancestors of the Berbers considered a noble metal. I believe they were right! The barbarian “civilizers” started all their wars over gold. Since traders began to rule the world, gold has turned into a karmically dangerous metal. Bloody! The Berbers and Proto-Slavs, who sensitively sensed the energies of nature, did not wear gold on their bodies - as if intuited that a gold necklace or brooch will worsen the functioning of the thyroid gland.
Unfortunately, today few people feel natural energies. Fashion and vanity have destroyed the intuition. Although since then, gold has become an even bloodier metal. I formulated the following sign for myself: the more gold jewelry a woman wears today, the more aggressively she asserts herself in life. And the cheaper it will be for anyone.
This Berber woman, dressed as a bride, does not even have a single golden beads. But so does the face. doesn't fuss! Why not a peasant woman from our distant Slavic past?
Unfortunately, some of the troglodytes in our time have surrendered to the world of consumption. They did not surrender to the conquerors, but they could not resist the dream of getting rich. We started trading and learned breed tourists. They built modern houses in cities. True, in the Sahara they retained their dugout dwellings like dachas, as well as for receiving tourists traveling for the sake of extreme light, for whom the very word “Berber” is already a brand. Isn’t it fun to return home and brag: “I spent the night with the troglodytes in the Sahara?”
While in Tunisia, anyone can go to the south of the country and stay in a Berber five star dugout or in three-star cave. True, water will flow from the tap, like from a dropper in an intensive care unit, and the Berber service will correspond to the word “troglodytes.”
In such “dungeons” there are also expensive restaurants with super food! In them you can get some extravagant zebra hoof carpaccio, giraffe ear tartare, grilled cobra cheeks, and a salad of the tongues of the famous Atlas doves, served as a compliment from an Arabian chef in a shell the size of the ear of our northern squirrel. But the compliment is free!
And they will show you a Berber show...
http://www.tribal.su/viewtopic.php?t=5708
And for a special fee, the local witch will tell you everything about your past life and, God forbid, predict the future with such an expression on her face.
http://www.tribal.su/viewtopic.php?t=5708
The social life of the “civilizers” has finally reached the Saharan troglodytes. In my opinion, they now have not only glamorous restaurants in dugouts and cool hotels in caves, but also their own troglodyte models.
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It’s amazing how a huge people, despite all their historical troubles, not only preserved themselves, but also multiplied so much that standing anywhere in the Atlas Mountains, you can see up to a dozen Berber villages at once. And how many Berbers live today in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria!
Only recently did television appear in the homes of village Berbers, and not all of them.
Happy people!
They know nothing about the European collider and that if the experiment fails, our Mother Earth will fly into a black hole.
They are not afraid that Rockefeller and Rothschild united in their friendship against humanity...
They don’t dream of an asteroid that just one of these days will collide with our planet and turn it into dust even before it is sucked into a black hole...
The Berbers don't have flu epidemics because no one told them anything about the flu on television.
They wake up not from text messages gurgling in their mobile phones, but with the dawn...
They don’t even know that their Berber woman, who lives in Sweden, took first place at Eurovision...
Moreover, they have not heard anything about the “Buranovsky Babushki”! And also about the fact that Kirkorov quarreled with Timati, and in the American show “House 2” there is again a rift between Lucretia and Ralph, who, out of a sense of political correctness, is not informed that he is black.
In short, they don’t understand real art at all.
Maybe that’s why Berber children grow up as obedient helpers in Berber families, because the TV screen serves as a window into the world of mountains, sky and light for them! Berber TV is a continuous live show in 5D format with a three-dimensional image, with the smell of mountain flowers, birdsong and the sound of mountain rivers.
It may seem incredible to us to civilians, but children uncivilians-Berbers obey their parents! They are not rude to them, they do not interrupt them, and the gifts we give them are divided fairly, without noise, uproar and fights. As we would say “according to concepts”!
I'm not sure of my observation, but in my opinion, few of today's Arabs see these bright sides of Berber life. On the contrary, many people like to tell jokes about the stinginess of the Berbers, their stupidity, and lack of education.
Having learned that I was a comedian, my guide, who accompanied me to the Berber village, began to pour out jokes at the speed of a Russian cavalryman.
For example, before entering the village he warned that if a foreigner wants to sleep with a Berber woman, he must know that half of the local population has AIDS, and half has tuberculosis, so it is advisable to achieve intimacy only with those women who cough!
Of course, I giggled for the sake of decency. But in my heart, as a professional humorist, I considered the joke unfair to the Berbers.
Again I can’t resist comparison with the Slavs. The Proto-Slavs also suffered from the same “ civilizers" And the Slavs were driven into slavery and sold to Greece, Rome, the Phoenicians... " Civils» smacked « Not civilians" And what is the result? Look at the modern map! The Slavs settled throughout the continent, and those states that smacked, remained only in memories. Why? Because the Slavs remained faithful your land. Both Berbers and Slavs call the land... Mother! Russian heroes, when they wanted to gain strength, lay down on the ground. And they became invincible.
The only way to defeat a hero on his native land is by deception!
Hercules defeated the mythical ruler of Libya Antaeus precisely by cunning. First, he tore the hero away from his land. Deprived of power! And only then was he able to overcome. This is a parable, not a documentary description of events.
(Unfortunately, no photographs of Hercules or Antheus have survived either).
All “civilizers”-colonialists-democratizers are always for valor revered cunning. In order to enslave a people, they first had to tear it away from its native land. Lose your roots! So today they are trying in every possible way to deprive the Slavs of their last strength, to transport them to metropolises, destroying the basis of the people - the peasantry! Turn into chipped slaves, sick of low-frequency music, fussing in pursuit of virtual happiness!
Oh, how necessary it is for Western “Hercules” to tear the Slavs away from Mother Earth! However, it's not that simple!
No matter how much smacked Berber and Slavic farmers, they were still resurrected. Berbers and Slavs are Phoenix birds, which are reborn almost from the ashes every time!
Because both of them have a saving motto: “What we haven’t finished eating, we’ll finish it!”
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These guys are not weak - Berbers! Pharaohs, Hannibal's cavalry corps, Hannibal himself, Gaddafi, Zidane, Edith Piaf... And the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012!
