Gurzil

Bull war-god of the Laguatan and other Tripolitanian Berbers, our fullest source being Corippus' Latin epic Iohannis. parentIds links to the Siwan Ammon, his attested father. Classified deity (war-god).

Parentage

• Ammon

Domains

• war

Powers

• lead the war-host in the form of a bull
• Leads the Laguatan war-host in the form of a bull

Epithets

• Gurzil

Sources

• Corippus, Iohannis (De Bellis Libycis), trans. G. W. Shea (1998). Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.
• Bates, O. (1914). The Eastern Libyans. London: Macmillan, chapter on Religion.
• al-Bakri, Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik (11th c.).
• Mattingly, D. J. (1995). Tripolitania. London: Batsford.