Tin Hinan

Tin Hinan would be the mother founder of the people Tuareg. It is about a woman of legend which one knows today through the oral tradition touarègue which describe it like “a woman irresistibly beautiful, large, with the face without defect, the clear dye, the immense and burning eyes, with the fine nose, the unit evoking at the same time the beauty and the authority”. Its name wants to say in Tamachek, " the mistress of the tentes". Originating in the tribe of the berabers of the Morocco, it would have come in the Hoggar in company from its Takamat maidservant. While the descendants of Tin Hinan would be the noble tribes touarègues today, those of Takamat would form the vassal tribes.

In 1918, Pierre Benoit, in his novel the Atlantis , tells the history of Antinéa. It is acted in fact of Tin Hinan of which it modified the noun.

In 1925, with Abalessa, in Hoggar, of the archeologists discovers fall it from a woman. They find there in addition to a well preserved skeleton, coins with the effigy of the Roman Emperor Constantin, silver and gold jewels, funerary furniture. The tomb, which dates from IVe, is allotted to Chock-Hinan and is a tourist attraction today. The body, as for him, is preserved at the Musée of Bardo to Algiers.

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The etymological significance of the name of Tin Hinan is the " blessed dieux".

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