Christianity in ancient North Africa

[Div]

I'm not a specialist but does an Episcopal see counts ? if yes then I translated this :



from here : https://journals.openedition.org/enc...ieberbere/2276

Episcopal seat means the center of the local church for parishioners, or the worldly church. What I meant is the lack of explicit grand communities of Celibate monks living in monastic complex as were found in Egypt, Ireland, Serbia etc. For example in Greece and Russia monasteries exist with up to 1000 people, small towns. I stand corrected though, apperently there were some but they didn't mention any names or locations so I assume they vanished after the Muslim invasions. Its a shame since many Saints and thinkers came from the Berbers, and really only secular Berber nationalists can appreciate these people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufes Apperently there was a monastery that existed there.

IIRC French settlers and the government made a monastery in Algeria that were murdered. That's sad, i understand there were colonists but innocent monks are literally obligated by God not to attack or subvert anything.

[dark-mysterio]

I find that hard to believe, it sounds like regular Muslim propaganda to me. Muslims have a habit of stretching the truth in their favour, I have come to realise.

what is no true in this ? thank you please for your response (beside my writing error/some missing word whoops)

[Adamm]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omek_Tannou

N.B. 'Omek Tangou' is a rendering of the old North African goddess Tanit who was identified with Venus. The earliest stylized depiction of a female hand with an eye (called the Hamsa, hand of Fatima, hand of Maryam, or Buri Nazar Hindi-Urdu ''bad gaze" ~ '[defense against] the evil eye') originated with Her.

I always thought Tanit was a Phoenician Goddess that North Africans adopted from the Carthaginians, or was it reverse?

[Nassbean]

I always thought Tanit was a Phoenician Goddess that North Africans adopted from the Carthaginians, or was it reverse?

It was specifically north african not phoenician

[Bender1999]

In my knowledge berbers had their own religion and many traditions of this time still preserve by some tribes.

[yamagi]

Makes me proud to be African.

[Adamm]

It was specifically north african not phoenician

Do you have a source on that?

[Nassbean]

Do you have a source on that?

Yes I have a book about Carthage by François decret ("Carthage ou l'empire de la mer") where he says there is no mention of "tanit/tinnit" in Phoenicia (even though their was a similar goddess called astarte) and that this goddess appears only in North africa especially promoted by the last magonids in the beginning of the IVth century BC

[Adamm]

Yes I have a book about Carthage by François decret ("Carthage ou l'empire de la mer") where he says there is no mention of "tanit/tinnit" in Phoenicia and that this goddess appears only in North africa especially promoted by the last magonids in the beginning of the IVth century BC

I saw 2 weeks ago this video about Carthage religion and the video explains that indeed Tanit didn't came from Tyre but she was 'invented' in Carthage by the descends of the Phoenicians, he didn't mention at all that it came from the Berbers. The thing I want to know is of the Berbers had Tanit before the Carthaginians or not.

This is the video:

[Nassbean]

I saw 2 weeks ago this video about Carthage religion and the video explains that indeed Tanit didn't came from Tyre but she was 'invented' in Carthage by the descends of the Phoenicians, he didn't mention at all that it came from the Berbers. The thing I want to know is of the Berbers had Tanit before the Carthaginians or not.

This is the video:

No there is no reason to believe it came from the berber pantheon either but it wasn't present among the first phoenician settlers so tannit is a north african goddess it was whorshiped by both carthaginians and other berbers not by any levantines