#tuareg

The “mosaic” comparison might come across as confusing or even difficult to interpret? This one of the ways/things I, and my OC Lluna compare his face and markings to.

Mosaics are made of broken up pieces, and unless measured to the millimeter when you want everything to fall mathematically and geometrically precise, they can be mismatched or unequal (Lluna thinks of the older mosaics she has seen around, which are a little broken or missing pieces, for example). BUT together, whether broken or old or not, they create something uniquely beautiful. He is beautiful 🩵💛💜

as promised, dedicated to @bathroom-mold who reminded me with a comment on another post that I had tried to draw this last year, but left it on hiatus because the attempt just wasn’t working. And now my Apple Pencil nib broke so I can’t continue digital art until I get replacements :( . But I am super happy with how the lower panel turned out now! Especially the mask!! Not so happy with Lluna, but I do like some details about it. I pointed out on discord that the oil lamp I added was just floating. @naleii jokingly suggested that Safiyyah might be holding it on her head lolllll I loved that so I decided to draw the ears 😭💕 @aurianavaloria suggested the curtains for the background to make my life easier than adding a bunch of details like architecture and furniture instead xD but without leaving it a bland background either!

The hanging things are a flame lamp and an incense dispenser, based on Moroccan ones I have in my home. There is Tamasheq writing on Lluna’s tagelmust which will be explained in the following chapter, out soon I hope.

I don’t currently have tumblr and some other apps installed due to storage limitations in my phone. So I am inactive for that and other reasons uwu

The Tuareg people also spelled Twareg or Touareg; eare a large Berber ethnic group, traditionally nomadic pastoralists, who principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and as far as northern Nigeria, with small communities in Ghana, Chad, and Sudanknown as the Kinnin

The Tuareg speak languages of the same name, also known as Tamasheq, which belong to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family.

They are a semi-nomadic people who mostly practice Islam, and are descended from the indigenous Berber communities of Northern Africa, whose ancestry has been described as a mosaic of local Northern African (Taforalt), Middle Eastern, European(Early European Farmers), and Sub-Saharan African, prior to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.Some researchers have tied the origin of the Tuareg ethnicity with the fall of the Garamantes, who inhabited the Fezzan (Libya) from the 1st millennium BC to the 5th century AD. Tuareg people are credited with spreading Islam in North Africa and the adjacent Sahel region.

Tuareg social structure has traditionally included clan membership, social status and caste hierarchies within each political confederation. The Tuareg have controlled several trans-Saharan trade routes and have been an important party to the conflicts in the Saharan region during the colonial and post-colonial eras

In antiquity, the Tuareg moved southward from the Tafilalt region into the Sahel under the Tuareg founding queen Tin Hinan, who is believed to have lived between the 4th and 5th centuriesThe matriarch's 1,500-year-old monumental Tin Hinan tomb is located in the Sahara at Abalessa in the Hoggar Mountains of southern Algeria. Vestiges of an inscription in Tifinagh, the Tuareg's traditional Libyco-Berber writing script, have been found on one of the ancient sepulchre's walls.

External accounts of interactions with the Tuareg are available from at least the 10th century onwards. Ibn Hawkal (10th century), El-Bekri (11th century), Edrisi (12th century), Ibn Battutah (14th century), and Leo Africanus (16th century) all documented the Tuareg in some form, usually as Mulatthamin or "the veiled ones". Of the early historians, 14th-century scholar Ibn Khaldûn probably wrote some of the most detailed commentary on the life and people of the Sahara, though he apparently never actually met them.

While living quarters are progressively changing to adapt to a more sedentary lifestyle, Tuareg groups are well known for their nomadic architecture (tents). There are several documented styles, some covered with animal skin, some with mats. The style tends to vary by location or subgroup. The tent is traditionally constructed for the first time during the marriage ceremony and is considered an extension of the union, to the extent that the phrase "making a tent" is a metaphor for becoming married.

information was found on wikipedia but there more is interesting documentaries on this tribe on YouTube

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