Itherther
Also called Buffalo.
Itherther is a primordial bull of Kabyle (Berber) cosmogony, who together with the cow Thamuatz and their calf is remembered as among the first beings to exist on earth.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Amazigh (Berber) folklore
- Region
- Africa (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Two-Realmed
- Symbols
- Bull
Near this figure
Symbols
Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.
- Bull is image-domain The bull denotes fecundating potency and pent strength, sacred to storm and sky gods, and harnessed as the ox to the plough that founded settlement.
why
Itherther is a primordial bull of Kabyle (Berber) cosmogony, who together with the cow Thamuatz and their calf is remembered as among the first beings to exist on earth.
Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Form
- Primordial progenitor of life
why
Itherther is a primordial bull of Kabyle (Berber) cosmogony, who together with the cow Thamuatz and their calf is remembered as among the first beings to exist on earth. Itherther is a primordial bull figure from Kabyle, or Berber, cosmogonic tradition of North Africa, sometimes glossed in English-language reference works simply as Buffalo.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Father carries both readings
2 citations
- Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, s.v. "Itherther."
- Patricia Ann Lynch, African Mythology A to Z, p. 55.