Tafukt
deity sky Berber single tradition · 4
Tafukt is a sun goddess among the Berbers.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Worshipped in Numidia during Antiquity.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- wind, Shapash, Magec, Unelanuhi, Oüa Chill, Siqiniq, He'-koo-lās, Uwahci∙ł, Ka Sgni, Ayyur, Ba'al-Ḥammon, Pattini, Sun, rain, Aten, Chaxiraxi, Ra, Sekhmet, Hathor, Amaterasu, Saulė, Päivätär, Beiwe, Bila, Wala, Bisal-Mariamma, Bomong, Wurusemu
- consort of
- Ayyur
- parent of
- Itran
- enemy of
- tijenwet
Mentioned by
- Pattini
- Sun
- rain
- Aten
- Chaxiraxi
- Ra
- Sekhmet
- Hathor
- Amaterasu
- Saulė
- Päivätär
- Beiwe
- Bila
- Wala
- Bisal-Mariamma
- Bomong
and 2 more
Sources
wikipedia (4)
Source passages
“Berbers (Tafukt)”
#15367 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“This primordial, much-venerated mother deity Tafukt appears in certain prayers still in use at Figuig. During the baptism of a child, on the seventh day after birth, a practice intended to introduce the newborn into the sacred sphere of the World and of society”
#15555 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Throughout North Africa, from the first century B.C. in the fourth century AD, the stelae of Saturn have preserved most of Saturn's iconography: The berbers appear to have integrated the cult of Ba'al Hammon with the berber cult of the worship of the Sun deity "Tafukt"”
#40510 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001