Ifri• Dea Africa • Goddess of Fortune and War •

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Ifri is an Amazigh goddess of fire like Vesta from the Roman pantheon. She was the deity who gave her name to the African continent in light of the scorching heat of the mainland. A few sources say that she is additionally the goddess of fortune and fruitfulness. She was the principle fertility and plenitude deity to a portion of her worshipers. Her iconography ordinarily incorporated an elephant-veil crown, wavy hair, wide nose, a cornucopia, and a lion. Some alternate names for the goddess were Afri, Ifri, Ifru, and Dea Africa and was additionally regarded as the goddess of fortune, war, and protection by the Awriga clan in modern day Tunisia. Pliny the Elder referenced that no one in Africa chose to do anything prior invocation of Africa, the Latin name of Ifri. This goddess was addressed in assorted manners on Numidian coins from the first century BCE. At the point when the Romans conquered Northwest Africa, she showed up on the coins of the Roman states in North Africa. The Imazighen utilized a few divinities as war divine beings during the time of their resitence against the Romans. They had the war goddess Ifri who was viewed as the defender of her worshipers and was portrayed on the Imazighen coins as well, and appeared to be an influencial goddess in North Africa. However, the Romans embraced her and called her Africa and considered her again to be the image of their triumphs against the Imazighen.

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