Amazigh New Year.. The controversy over defining the day off brings to mind the issue of crafts
Controversy has returned again on the issue of the Amazigh year, on the occasion of the publication of the list of holidays in primary, secondary, preparatory, and secondary qualifying education and the departments for preparing the high-tech certificate for the academic year 2023-2024, as the field designated for the date of the Amazigh New Year holiday remained empty, and the phrase “to be determined later” was written in its place. . Many Amazigh activists commented, on social media, on this development by questioning the state's decision to make the Amazigh New Year an official holiday, while others went too far in their interpretations.
The Amazigh New Year is an official holiday, without going into other details, as officials are well aware that the date of celebrating the Amazigh New Year has controversy and disagreement within the Amazigh movement itself, which was the case with regard to the letter that was adopted to write the Amazigh language, as the matter required arbitration. royally decisive in the matter of the letter.
Today, the Amazigh movement finds itself, and with it the Amazighs of Morocco, facing a new challenge related to agreeing on one day to be an official and paid holiday, as prevailing in recent years is the difference in the celebration of the Amazigh New Year between Amazigh associations and some interested in Amazigh culture. This is what we have been alerted to on many occasions and articles, as we have mentioned some of the fallacies and mistakes that are being promoted by some parties about the history of the Amazigh calendar and the celebration of the Amazigh New Year, as well as the Amazigh “conqueror” of January, which will become a reality with the passage of time, because the repetition of these fallacies is one of A party of associations and people with weight and influence within the Amazigh movement will make them facts that are not discussed.
We have confirmed that studies and calendar calculations indicate that January 14 of the Gregorian calendar year or the Gregorian calendar is the Amazigh light of January. This is what the Buayad daily publishes, which indicates every year that January 14th marks the beginning of the “Peasant Year.” It seems that the controversy will intensify with the passage of days, which will prompt officials to request the consultation of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture in this regard, so that the experience of the Amazigh character will be repeated, and we hope that the researchers in the institute will be sober and scientifically objective and refer to studies and calendar accounts in this field, as well as the traditions of the Moroccan people Which makes January 14 of the Gregorian calendar the light of January, the Amazigh or Al-Falahi, as it is called in many regions. See our article “Askas Igudan 2973.. Significance of Celebrating the Amazigh New Year”, on the following link:
Written by: Muhammad Bodari
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