In general, societies with monotheistic religions were patrilineal, placing a back seat to women, often rated the same or worse than animals. However, more ancient past, the role of the sacred feminine dye reached as the bearer of fertility and life.
If we come to the Canary Islands, among the Berbers of North Africa and the Canary Islands, although men are involved in major events and religious rituals, women are highly respected by his relationship with the gods. For example, are those that predict the future by reading in the hands, in clouds or in plants. The comparative ethnography shows that also occurs in many original peoples and even among the advanced nations. Marriages are monogamous, but there is separation. Canarian women is very strong physically and mentally, gives the descent, transmits wisdom popular oral literature and crafts making it a pillar of tradition and culture. Amazigh women is often the repository of the basic craft techniques of daily living, such as pottery, basketry or weaving mats from palm leaves. Do not wear headscarves and many of them still keep alive the ancient custom of wearing of tattoos on the face, hands or feet, which have their symbolic code referred to social status.
ancient literary sources canary clearly reflected the prominent role of Aboriginal women. In Fuerteventura, Leonardo Torriani provides some details on the role of women in ancient Amazigh society. Tibiabin was considered fateful woman and much knowledge, who, by revelation from demons or natural trial, prophesied many things that later proved true, so it was regarded by all as a goddess and worshiped and ruled things ceremonies and rites , as a priestess. Tamonante things governed justice and decided disputes and disagreements that occurred between the powerful and main island Gran Canaria, Abreu Galindo argues that women were many and religious canary, who lived in seclusion and were maintained and sustained what the nobles were given, whose houses and dwellings had large pre-eminence, and differed from other women their skins long they dragged on the ground, and were white. They called magadas. When there were storms, went in procession with sticks in their hands, and magadas with glasses of milk and butter and palm branches. Marched to the mountains and there Umiaya Tirmac and butter and milk spilled, did dances and sang dirges around a rock, and from there went to sea and gave the sticks in the water with shouts of joy.
In La Palma, Abreu Galindo awara states that women were less bulk than men, were characterized by manly courage and ferocity executed without any apology to Christians. The same author immortalized the fight between a gang of settlers islanders and the palm Guayanfanta woman "of great courage and great body, which seemed huge, and extremely white." Relates how the Christians surrounded, fought with them as he could and, looking harassed, charged with a Christian and, taking it under his arm, went to a cliff to jump into the void with it, and came despite another Christian and cut off his legs, fell over the cliff.
