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TEBBUS, also known as Tabbus, Taboos, Teda, Tedaga, Toda, Todaga, Kreda, Bardoa, Umbararo, Todja, Tubu, Toubou, Tibbu, Tebu, Thibaux, Tedda-Dassas, or Troglodytes, are a very ancient race of the Sahara, and possibly a living fossil of one of the oldest races on Earth. Their ancient homeland is the Tibesti mountain region of Soudanic Africa, recently integrated into the modern landmass of "Chad", but they also have traditionally ranged over a large area of the desert from Fezzan to the Songhay territory, and some of the more enterprising among them have even reached the Hausa states during their trading expeditions.
Tebbus are noted for being one of the most "fringe" or "frontier" of all peoples known to the ancient world; below them was usually marked as the terra incognita of dragons, great spiders and sea monsters; while above them were the ancient civilized states of Rome, Egypt, and the Morocco. For thousands of years, they have been described as an exceptionally wild, fierce, and totally indomitable people, a race who have never truly been conquered or even tamed, and this reputation continues in the modern age. Living in the harshest parts of the Sahara, they hold little interest to the great empires of history, with not even the global Matriarchate of long ago desiring to expend energy on subduing them; they live, and have always lived, by the plunder of these more settled civilizations. The Tebbu may be divided in two groups, the Teda, who are more racially pure and independent, and live deeper in the Tibesti mountains, and the Daza or Dassa, who are more numerous but also more racially and culturally mixed, many maintaining prolonged contact with the blacks of southern Chad and Nigeria.
The pure Teda live exclusively by herding the camel, the goat, and collecting palm fruits; they refuse to do any agricultural labor, which they leave to the black slaves they capture from southern provinces; they eat little meat, but live off of the products of the dairy, the dates and doum nuts of their palm groves, and millet porridge made by the aforementioned slaves. The Dazas maintain cattle, and some will consent to do some basic farming, although they also rely to a large degree on the forced labor of other ethnic groups.
The harsh life in the desert is unenviable, but it creates an amazingly strong and healthy people. The Tedas, who are literal modern cavemen, living a prehistoric troglodyte life in the various outcroppings of the Tibesti mountains, are able to endure almost innumerable difficulties without experiencing great discomfort; they can go many days without eating, before they feel hunger; they are the healthiest people on Earth, and diseases and viral epidemics which ravage the world never come here. Most have never truly been "sick" at any point in their lives. The harsh, dry air kill almost all bacteria, and the viruses of settled civilization cannot survive in an area where villages do not exist, and one family may be separated from another by a fifty miles walk. Most of all, the toughness of the Tebbu, who live where no human people ought to be able to survive, creates a form of natural selection where all those who survive early childhood can be expected to live on to old age, provided they do not die in a violent feud (as many do).
The health of the Tebbu has caused them, like their neighbors, the Tuareg, to be perhaps the most beautiful, finely formed people on Earth. Men are extremely masculine, with strong facial features that command respect; women are exquisitely beautiful, and carry a highly dignified gait. They appear young even when old, while most other poor races appear old even when young. There is an air of pride amongst the Tebbu, as though they are aware of their physical superiority; this is more true of the Teda than the Daza, as the Teda are healthier, hardier, and possess a lighter skin tone.
The Tebbu personality, especially the Teda, has been less impressive to observers; since ancient times they have been known as a truculent and uncooperative people, a race of barbarians who live by the sword. Today, this is just as true as ever, and those who have spent time amongst the Tebbu have found them unfriendly and hostile, especially towards outsiders. The Tebbu man is essentially a warrior, and shows little cooperation or solidarity with anyone outside his lineage. Most Tebbu live for much of the year in small, travelling groups in great isolation from the broader society as a whole; this has given their character an extreme tinge of individualism, love of freedom, and inability to be dominated, but it has also made them harsh and xenophobic.
Tebbu society, like that of the Tuaregs, is matriarchal, and women are the powerful figures and leaders of the society. The Tebbu woman is in no way secluded, and in fact all who have lived among them have described them as socially and sexually dominant over men. Tebbu men are away for much of the year on herding expeditions, making women the managers of the community. They conduct themselves with an air of self confidence and personality strength that is rare among women of the Sahel, and perhaps it is for this reason they have refused to submit to the rite of female circumcision which has infected the culture of their settled neighbors to the south and east.
Tebbu are all, or nearly all, Sunni Muslims; they are not, however, strong observers of the faith. In many important areas, they disagree; although they practice male circumcision, there is no pardah, or seclusion of women, nor hijab, or face covering. Due to their isolation in the desert environment, none or very few have ever made the hajj. Intoxicating drink is avoided only because of its general absence in this part of Africa, not because of any Mohammedan fervour. Literacy and education are nonexistent, thereby the Koran is not widely studied and can only be transmitted orally. Neither dowry nor cousin marriage are practiced.
