Home›Open Questions›How old is the Amazigh rain-bride procession, and does any pre-modern source describe it?Open QuestionsHow old is the Amazigh rain-bride procession, and does any pre-modern source describe it?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "How old is the Amazigh rain-bride procession, and does any pre-modern source describe it?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-old-is-the-amazigh-rain-bride-procession-and-does-any-pre-modern-source-describe-it.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). How old is the Amazigh rain-bride procession, and does any pre-modern source describe it?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-old-is-the-amazigh-rain-bride-procession-and-does-any-pre-modern-source-describe-itCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-how-old-is-the-amazigh-rain-bride-proces, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {How old is the Amazigh rain-bride procession, and does any pre-modern source describe it?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/how-old-is-the-amazigh-rain-bride-procession-and-does-any-pre-modern-source-describe-it}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe rite is known almost entirely from twentieth century ethnography. Anzar appears in Amazigh oral tradition, but no documentary record has been identified between antiquity and the modern recording, so claims that the procession is a pre-Islamic survival rest on nothing that can be checked, and no dated alternative account exists.What would resolve this An attestation of the procession, or of a recognisably related rite, in medieval or early modern Maghribi Arabic writing, in an Amazigh manuscript tradition, or in a travel account with a firm date.OpenAmazigh philology and the ethnohistory of the Maghreb, with medieval Arabic textual scholarshipMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Encyclopedia of ReligionCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnTislit Unzar, the Rain Bride, Sacred Objects & Ritual Items Well-attested Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)tier 1SourcesEncyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year