This glossary brings together the terms and figures that structure the research and practice. Some are original concepts developed throughout the work ; others are Amazigh cultural and mythological references whose knowledge illuminates the works.

Amazigh — meaning free person in Tamazight, the term by which the Berber peoples of North Africa refer to themselves. They are present in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Mali, Niger and Mauritania, as well as in the Canary Islands and their diasporas across Europe. Amazigh identity is not fixed within a single territory or a linear temporality; it is constructed through plural forms.

Tamazight — the language of the Amazigh peoples, spoken in various dialectal forms across North Africa (Kabyle, Tarifit, Tachelhit, etc.). Long transmitted orally, without a standardised written form, it has been partially transcribed in the Tifinagh alphabet. Certain terms are retained in Tamazight due to their untranslatability.

Anzar — Amazigh deity of rain and waters, masculine personification of the sky. He is collectively invoked during periods of drought through the ritual of Tislit n'Anzar.

Teryel — ogress, half-woman half-goddess of Amazigh mythology, figure of refusal and feminine counter-power. She refused to submit to gender-assigned roles and embodies an autonomous feminine power, at once feared and revered.

Tislit n'Anzar — collective feminine ritual of invocation practised among Amazigh communities during periods of drought. Its name means The Bride of Anzar in Tamazight.

Transformission — neologism coined for this research, designating a gesture that holds transmission and transformation together without opposing them. It also contains phonetically the word mission and is situated within a political context in which identity assignations are hardening.

Désarchivage(unarchiving)— central concept of this research-creation, designating a political and artistic gesture that extracts invisible memories from fixed archives in order to reactivate them through other sensory modalities. It is at once decolonial, feminist and prospective — oriented towards what does not yet exist.