occultism in northwest africa has something to do with atlantis and their matriarchy. the ancient berber gods of the maghreb were called the dii mauri by the romans. the main characters were goddesses and heroic queens. the creator goddess settut hates mankind (especially men and boys) and is always trying to destroy us. the evil spirits like the waghzen and kel asuf are weak to silver weapons and amulets. they hate humans but tolerate human females more. there is an account by diodorus siculus about libyan amazons who called themselves atlantians because atlas was their king.   r/e/roman/texts/diodorus_siculus/3d *.html   _(mythology)#king_of_mauretania note that modern berbers call themselves imazons and used to be led by females before islam (the founding myth of carthage was also a female.... and more recently gaddafi kept female body guards). i forget which book it is, but herodotus histories' described that "atlanteans" (north africans) as being dressed like athena. in east africa, where hanno the carthagian said there were colonies, there are black "amazon" like women which the greeks called gorgons:          y_amazons > there was also some strange sect that only read the quran in berber and added some chapters search barghawata. almohads are interesting because they actually claimed their caliph was the mahdi, so they weren't exactly muslims anymore, but post-muslims. and on that subject, a very early berber leader in the 8th century named salih ibn tarif claimed to have received a second quran from god, and basically established his own post-muslim religion with all kinds of new rules and revelations, he also said he was the mahdi and then went into occultation a-la the twelfth imam for the shiites.
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