The Berber world

{{comments_count}} Every year around January 12-14, a date pit hides inside the tagoula bowls of Amazigh families — good luck for whoever finds it. That’s Yennayer, the Berber New Year: an agricultural feast older than the calendar that replaced it, and one that never quite disappeared. A name from far away The word “Yennayer” comes from the Latin Januarius, the same root as our January. That link points to old contact with the Julian calendar, brought by Rome and kept …