Amazigh and Tuareg mythology: spirits of the Sahara

Long before Islam, the Amazigh peoples of North Africa honoured the sun, the moon (ayyur in Tamazight) and the spirits of places. Herodotus described the astral cults of the ancient Libyans; the Tuareg of the great desert still reckon with the Kel Essuf, spirits of solitude. The entries below document this North African matrix with sources.