This week we met the Imilchil Marriage Festival, which we take a moment to enjoy — albeit very metaphorically — in class. How did the festival begin? According to legend in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, two young people from different Berber tribes near Imilchil fell in love but their families forbade them from marrying. In their grief they cried themselves to death, creating the companion lakes of Isli (his) and Tislit (hers) separated for eternity by a mountain. Their families honored the anniversary of their death by creating the Marriage Festival during which members of local tribes can meet, make just the right match, and, to everyone’s joy, plan to marry.
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Lucky to Get Married in Morocco
One of our many adventures in this week’s online class takes us to the town of Imilchil in North Africa’s Atlas Mountains for a Moroccan Marriage Festival.
The Imilchil Marriage Festival is where Berber families bring their boys and girls who are “of marriage-able age” to meet, and ideally become engaged to, their perfect match. May not be able to travel to a Morrocan marriage festival in the Atlas Mountains, but no matter; in this week’s live class we “get married in Morocco.”
