History of the Amazons. Moroccan Chronicles

Berbers and Arabs

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Today the Berbers preach Islam; but they are rather modest followers of the prophet. Before the arrival of the Arabs, they worshiped the gods of Carthage: Gurzila, Mastiman and other barbarian deities.

According to Tertulien, they sacrificed children to Saturn. They also practiced a fire cult. During the period of Christian rule, several tribes neighboring Greek settlements were converted to.

Berbers are a monogamous people. Their women, although less protected than women of Christian nations, do not have special rights.

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Berber women

Berber women have enviable energy. Sometimes they can be seen fighting alongside their husbands. History has immortalized the memory of their courage and fortitude in the Amazon saga, in which Homer sang the praises of the Amazon queen who conquered Libya and parts of Asia Minor.

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Some Berber women held supreme power among the Berbers; This fact alone, completely uncharacteristic of the Arabs, quite clearly indicates that regarding certain issues the way of thinking of these peoples was completely different. During the conquest they met quite stiff resistance from Queen Kahina, who commanded several tribes and formed a league against the Arabs. In the first battle, she managed to put them to flight and occupy all of northern Africa.

Since the Arabs had returned in much larger numbers than before, she decided to ravage the country to prevent them from occupying it, and ordered the destruction of all villages and settlements from Tripoli to Tangier. This amazing woman terrified the Greeks and Arabs equally, and perhaps she would have changed the fate of her country if she had not found her death in one of the battles.

Character of the Berbers

Authors who spoke about the Berbers often held very conflicting opinions regarding the character of the latter. These contradictions are easy to explain, taking into account everything that we said in relation to such differences, depending on their living conditions. The descriptions we are using are accurate only for that part of the Berber population to which these descriptions apply; however, since this population was very diverse, what is true for some is not true for others. For example, what characterizes the Tuaregs, who are a dangerous nomadic tribe of robbers and bandits, has nothing to do with the Berbers living in the mountains.

The psychology of the Berber can be considered as very similar to the psychology of the Arab, provided, of course, that sedentary tribes are compared with sedentary ones, and nomadic ones with nomadic ones. For all peoples they are one of the most important factors, which, in turn, influence the formation of character. When considering similar conditions of existence, we should expect that we will find the same way of thinking and behavior. Sedentary Berbers, like sedentary Arabs, are diligent, patient, energetic and hardworking. The nomadic Berber tribes, like the nomadic Arabs, are independent, warlike, reserved and resilient. The former, like the latter, have a lively mind; they are also incredibly insidious and dangerous towards their enemies. They differ from the Arabs only in that they are more vindictive, cruel and not so smart.

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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 – 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 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” - “worshippers 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, 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 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, as well as 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 photo 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 carry out 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 a visit from the NATO crusaders 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. It really looks like 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 write 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 kinds 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. Do scientists really not 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 in bridal attire, 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 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 for them serves as a window into the world of mountains, sky and light! 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... " Civilians» 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 overcame 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. Uproot! So today they are trying in every possible way to deprive the Slavs of their last strength, to transport them to metropolitan cities, destroying the people’s base - 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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A HUGE demonstration of Berbers took place earlier this week in the Moroccan capital Rabat. Demonstrators shouted slogans in their native Tamazight language and carried banners with messages 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. The official number of Berbers living in Morocco is unknown, but independent sources claim they are the majority. In total, according to various estimates, there are from 10 to 25 million Berbers in the world. 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 a 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.

The organizer of the latest protests 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.

MYSTERIOUS BERBERS (MOROCCO, PART II)

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 - confirmed my speculations. But I want to note that I do not agree with all the ideas expressed on these sites.

To make it more interesting, turn on the music and read:

The Berber ancestors would have continued to live peacefully and happily in those long ago days, 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 slave markets in the Middle Sea.

By the way, so that you, dear readers, are not mistaken, I will tell you in confidence what local blacks told me in confidence 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 Greeks also tried to subjugate the Livs. They partially succeeded. They even established three city-policies, and called this community of policies Tripoli.

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!

In Arab written sources, much has been written about the treachery of the Berbers, about their cruelty, that they cannot be trusted, that they are uneducated, wild...

The same words about the Berbers are also in Phoenician sources.

Today Western “civilians” are trying to impose exactly the same opinion on the whole world about all the “non-civilian” Slavs.

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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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 that men only like women?! For the Romans, Greeks and Phoenicians this is a terrible horror! Barbaric primitive, it sucks!

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This possible migration of Berbers from Europe to North Africa is not surprising.

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 have never seen a southerner who would turn white from life in our north.

The Berbers, like the Proto-Slavs, were farmers, not traders. They lived by their own labor, and not by taking away goods. 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?

Farmers and those whom we now call peasants have always dreamed of the opportunity to quietly work in their beds and fields. It is not for nothing that one of the Berber tribes calls itself “free people.”

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... The Romans considered the Berbers to be barbarians, and the Berbers considered the Romans to be barbarians! But the Romans won history because they decided to describe all their deeds for posterity from their point of view!

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, as in their time the Slavs converted to Christianity: forcibly voluntarily, that is, with fire and sword.

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.

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.

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.

By the way, you can believe the latter. It seems that the Amazons really carried their legacy into North Africa and provided the Berbers with an infectious 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 the Berbers had queens! 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 named Kahina do? 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 we not remember our Ukrainian word – “kokhana”?

Maybe our very distant ancestors, indeed, some fourth or fifth cousins of the great-Berbers? Otherwise, from what chromosomal bins do such Berbers come from today?

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!

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 kinds 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?

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 veto any of his decisions if she did not like it. (Something like this today, any decision of the President of Latvia can be vetoed by the 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.

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!

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And we, Slavs, also cannot decipher our ancient patterns. But ancient Russian ornaments are akin to writing. By the embroidery on the bride's wedding dress, one could understand what kind of family she was and even read the history of this family.

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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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 they intuited that a gold necklace or brooch on the neck would worsen the functioning of the thyroid gland.

This Berber woman, dressed as a bride, does not even have a single gold bead. But the face doesn’t fuss! Why not a peasant woman from our distant Slavic past?

Enyu, 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 how to scam tourists. They built modern houses in cities. True, in the Sahara they preserved their dugout dwellings as dachas, and also to receive 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 a 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.”

And they will show you a Berber show...

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.

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...

In short, they don’t understand real art at all.

This may seem incredible to us civilians, but the children of non-civilian 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”!

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.

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.

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Again I can’t resist comparison with the Slavs. The Proto-Slavs also suffered for centuries from the same “civilizers.” And the Slavs were driven into slavery and sold to Greece, Rome, the Phoenicians... The “civilians” bullied the “non-civilians.” And what is the result? Look at the modern map! The Slavs settled throughout the continent, and those states that bullied them remained only in memories. Why? Because the Slavs remained faithful to their 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!

(Unfortunately, no photographs of Hercules or Antheus have survived either).

All “civilizers”-colonializers-democratizers have always considered cunning to be valor. In order to enslave a people, they first had to tear it away from its native land. Uproot! So today they are trying in every possible way to deprive the Slavs of their last strength, to transport them to metropolises, destroying the people’s base - 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 the Berber and Slavic farmers were bullied, they still rose again. Berbers and Slavs are Phoenix birds that 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!”

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!

When you are going to a country for the first time, you want to visit everything. Later, when planning a trip, you begin to build a route and have to sacrifice something. At first I had to give up visiting the Sahara Desert. 800 km seemed unreasonably long and risky given the lack of gasoline at gas stations. The next victim was the Upper Atlas. I became sad and began to look for something to replace it with. Unexpectedly, I came across a review about Tafraout. The detour in its direction was relatively small - about 100 km, and I decided that we would stop by and look at the fabulously beautiful place and the almond blossoms.

Finally, the time for departure came and we moved, according to the travel plan, to Tafraout, lost in the Anti-Atlas mountains.

The road twisted in a nightmarish serpentine, taking us deep into the country, to new unknown places.

At first the landscape was quite monotonous and tiresome - a red, rocky, seemingly lifeless desert. Gradually, with the increase in altitude, the nature also changed. Argan thickets stretched along the road and palm forests appeared.

Suddenly the landscape changed, and we looked in amazement at the windows of our car: the road passed through a gorge formed by a pile of red stones of various shapes and sizes. The red walls of the mountains were visible on all sides. The town was surrounded by green gardens. Clean streets and neat houses. Are we still in Morocco?

“One night is too little,” I thought as we drove up to our temporary shelter.

The place seemed simply fantastic, as if we were on another planet. “Wow,” said the husband, “it seems like I’ve already seen so many things, but there are still places that amaze you!”

The house we stayed in was clean and comfortable, and the owner was hospitable. We ordered dinner from him, which saved us from having to cook ourselves or find a restaurant.

We are not Arabs, we are Berbers.

The first thing that caught my eye in Morocco was the multinational society. People's faces were so different that it was quite difficult to determine externally which nation a person belonged to. It surprised me that despite the fact that Morocco is an African country, there were very few blacks. Significantly less than in Paris, not to mention Marseille. In addition to Arabs and various mestizos, in Morocco there were people of a completely different, European type. At first I took them for descendants of Europeans. But this turned out to be not entirely true. The owner of our house in Tafraout also looked more like a European. “We are not Arabs,” he declared proudly, “we are Berbers.” To my great shame, I knew nothing about the Berbers. No, of course I heard the word. The owner began to talk about the Berbers. He knew French, Arabic and Berber, I spoke Russian, English and German. Of course, I understood something, but still I went online to hastily fill the gaps in my education.

The word Berbers itself comes from the Greek barbara, given by Europeans for the incomprehensibility of the language. These are the Berbers, not blacks or Arabs, who are the indigenous population of northern Africa. In the Byzantine era, the dominant religion of the Berbers was Christianity, and only after the capture of northern Africa by the Arabs did they convert to Islam.

For thousands of years, the Berbers tried to preserve their identity, retreating under the invasion of numerous conquerors into remote and inaccessible mountainous areas, where they practiced agriculture and cattle breeding. Despite numerous mixed marriages, the Berbers managed to preserve their language and their culture.

One of these inaccessible areas is the small town of Tafraout, lost in the Anti-Atlas Mountains.

This is where we have arrived.

The main occupation of the local population is growing agrarian trees. Like me, you haven’t heard anything about this before? Then I'll tell you a little.

The argan tree grows only in two countries in the world - Mexico and Morocco. But in Mexico its fruits are not suitable for human consumption and Morocco is the only supplier of argan oil in the world. From argan fruits, local residents manually produce argan oil, which, depending on the degree of purification and processing methods, is used in the cosmetic and food industries. A few centuries ago, no one in Europe knew anything about argan oil, and only Berber tribes added it to food. But now there is not a single famous restaurant that does not use argan oil in their dishes.

No matter how interesting it was to communicate with our host, I really wanted to see the city and the surrounding area, and also go to where in 1984 the Belgian artist Jean Verame decided to compete with nature and painted the stones in different colors.

To be honest, my eyes were wide open. It was unclear where to go, to run, everything around seemed so amazingly beautiful and unlike anything else. But realizing that there was no time for fuss, I typed in the navigator the direction to the valley of stones and we set off.