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

consort of
Ayyur
parent of
Itran
enemy of
tijenwet

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Sources

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