Abora
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Abora is the name of an ancestral solar deity of La Palma (Canary Islands) and a traditional god of the Guanches.
Supreme being
Abora (Ibru[1]) is the name of the supreme being of the religion of the Guanches on the island of La Palma.[2][3] In Guanche mythology of the island of Tenerife, the supreme god was called Achamán.
Uses of the name
- Reed boats Abora of the German explorer Dominique Görlitz
References
- ^ Garrison Brinton, Daniel (1901). Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography. D. McKay. pp. 122.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 650–651.
- ^ William Brown Hodgson (1844). Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara and Soudan: In Relation to the Ethnography, Languages, History, Political and Social Condition, of the Nations of Those Countries. Wiley and Putnam. pp. 104–.
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