Africa

Berber goddess Ifri/Ifru, the 'African goddess' (Dea Africa) named in the task. English plain word for the Latinized name 'Africa' leads; native Tamazight Ifri/Ifru in term-fields. Pliny attests a Libyan war-goddess; later iconography fuses her with the personified province Africa. Classified deity.

Domains

• war
• caves and earth
• fertility and abundance
• land and homeland

Powers

• protect her worshippers and the home

Epithets

• Ifri
• Dea Africa
• Dea Patria

Sources

• Camps, G. (1990). 'Africa (deesse)', Encyclopedie berbere 2.
• Bates, O. (1914). The Eastern Libyans. London: Macmillan.
• Wikipedia, 'Africa (goddess)'.