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🇲🇱 🇳🇪 🇩🇿 🇱🇾Tuareg (Kel Tamasheq)

The veiled nomads of the Sahara; tea in three glasses, poetry, and the tagelmust.

🇲🇱 Mali🇳🇪 Niger🇩🇿 Algeria🇱🇾 Libya🇧🇫 Burkina FasoTamasheq

Customs they practice

1 recorded rite, each with its steps and its WHY.

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The three glasses of Saharan tea

Among the Tuareg and across the Sahara, green tea is brewed strong and poured from height in three rounds: "the first bitter like death, the second gentle like life, the third sweet like love."

🇲🇱 🇳🇪 🇩🇿 🇱🇾 🇧🇫Tuareg · Amazigh

Names from this tradition

10 names in the decoder, meaning first.

Rhissa

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leader

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Mohamed Ag Alhousseini

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praised one

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Fatimata

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abundance

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Alkhair

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the good

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Aghali

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noble

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Tinariwen

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deserts

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Tahya

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long life

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Mohamed Ag Alhassane

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praised one

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Alkhassan

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good

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Abdallah

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servant of God

Given name🇲🇱 🇳🇪 🇩🇿 🇱🇾Tuareg (Sahara)

Kin & neighbours

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