The malicious propaganda of some historians says: the aborigines (Guanches) of the Canary Islands were exterminated during the looting and conquest by pirates, French and Spanish. But I ...
The malicious propaganda of some historians says: the aborigines (Guanches) of the Canary Islands were exterminated during the looting and conquest by pirates, French and Spanish. But I do not believe that this happened because of what Christopher Columbus confirmed in his Logbook, which narrates: The natives of Guaraní are like the Canarians, neither white nor black. This that Columbus wrote during his first trip to America, back in 1492, indicates that 90 years after the arrival of Gadifer and Béthencourt to Lanzarote, there were still aboriginal-Guanches in the Canary Islands.
It is also known that the French, Spanish and English, by tradition in their varied conquests in continents and islands, took aborigines as slaves and sold them in other nations, but always in each conquered land they tried to leave enough people to serve them and work in the arduous tasks of the field and in the construction of houses and castles, among others. As it is known and accepted that the origin of the Guanches is from Berber tribes of North Africa, I deduce then from what I have read and meditated, that the Berbers may well be descendants of tribes that progressively emigrated to the north of the coast of Africa from lands of Egypt, Canaan and other places in its vicinity, possibly from the year 1300 BC, the time of Moses.
Disagreeing with those who claim that the Guanches only had vestiges of pagan religions on each island, and not a general one for the seven that make up the Archipelago; I believe as a possibility that such an affirmation is not true, because, from the word "Ajúl" that the Canarian independentist nationalists took from the current Berber language in North Africa, and acclimatized to the ancient language of the Canarian Berbers, I have come to think that this "Ajúl" may possibly be the name of the Jewish god, that the Berbers used as a greeting or good morning, or as saying "God", or "God with you". A word that perhaps the Berbers carried with them from their origin in the backpack of their primitive religious memories to the territory today called "Morocco", which was then linguistically transferred to the Canary Islands, via the first Berber emigrations.
Normally the corrupted name of the Jewish Divinity in the Christian Bible, in Spanish, German and English, is written and pronounced as "Jehovah, Jeovas", or "Jehowes", but in the religious root of the (Jewish Torah) it is named as YHWH. This tetragram in Hebrew is written and read, from left to right, as .H.W.H.Y, and was written only with consonant letters because ancient Aramaic lacked vowels. The saying, can also be read in Spanish pronouncing the haches as drowned "jotas", "Yjuj, or Iajuj", which is very similar to "Ajúl". If my hypothesis about this word is true, then the Canarian aborigines possibly had as religion, the beginning of the ancient Jewish belief. On the other hand, maps and chronicles of Phoenician, Greek and Arab navigators, give testimony of the physical Canary Islands, but none explains the origin of its inhabitants or their religion.
In the year 1312, Lancelotto Malocello, appeared in the history of the Canary Islands as one of the first visitors, but neither does he mention the origin of the Canarian people nor their religion. On May 1, 1402, Gadifer de la Salle, at the age of 62, and Jhean de Bethencourt, at the age of 40, began their journey from the island of La Rochelle, in France, to the Canary Islands, likewise they do not mention in their chronicles of "Le Canarien" the origin of the Canarian people nor their religion.
From another point of view, the fact that in the Canary Islands there were no vestiges of Muslim religion in the times of the conquest by Gadifer and Bethencourt, indicates that the Canarian people are of origin before the year 700, because Islam was introduced in North Africa with the conquest by the Syrian-Arabs of the Umayyad family, in more or less, 680, and the conquest of almost the entire Iberian Peninsula by the Berbers and Syrian-Arabs, was carried out from the year 710. This seems to confirm that the progressive origin of the Berber emigration towards the Canary Islands must have occurred many hundreds of years before these events; perhaps as I have already mentioned: from the year 1300 BC. And if what some say really happened: the Canarians were exterminated and the islands repopulated with people from North Africa; they were in any case re-inhabited with the same ethnic group, which corroborates that the Canary Islands are still in a large percentage of Berber origin. Apart from who conquered and populated the Canary Islands after the year 1410, in appreciable quantity, were people from the south of the Iberian Peninsula, which were and are mostly of Berber origin.
Conclusion, the Canary Islands by history are of Berber ethnicity, as is almost all of Portugal and almost all of Spain. It is appreciated from the north of Morocco to Libya, that some Berbers no longer have the skin color like most Mediterranean people, (they are darker); that is due to the mixture that has been forged during history with Negroid peoples. Also for the same reason some Canarians are darker skinned than some Mediterraneans.
