Tinge

Berber goddess Tinge/Tinjis, eponym of Tangier and wife of the earth-giant Antaeus (corpus berber_anti). Named in the batch prose of berber_anti ('Pomponius Mela makes the goddess Tinjis (eponym of Tangier) his wife'); materialized here. The English/Latin form Tinge leads; native Berber Tinjis and Greek Tingis are given in the term-fields. Classified deity (eponym/tutelary goddess).

Domains

• place and eponymy

Powers

• lend her name to the city of Tangier

Relations

• spouse: AntaeusWife of the Libyan giant Antaeus (Anti); reciprocal spouse edge needed on berber_anti.Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia 3.10 — Tinge the wife of Antaeus. (reference)

Sources

• Tinge (Tinjis), a Berber goddess and the eponym of Tangier (Tingis), is named by Pomponius Mela as the wife of the Libyan giant Antaeus, whom the Berbers knew as Anti; her name underlies that of the city.: Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia 3.10. (reference); Bates, O. (1914). The Eastern Libyans: An Essay. London: Macmillan & Co. (secondary); Plutarch, Sertorius 9 (the giant Antaeus at Tingis). (reference)