Gurzil

Gurzil' was an important Berber deity. He is known from two sources, the Latin poem Iohannis by the 6th-century Christian Roman poet Corippus and a Neo-Punic inscription from Lepcis Magna. It has been assumed that Gurzil is equivalent to the Roman god Saturn.

According to Corippus, the Laguatan of Tripolitania carried a representation of Gurzil in the form of a bull into battle against the Byzantine Empire when they revolted along with the Austurii in AD 546. They regarded Gurzil as the offspring of Amun and a cow.

Ierna, the chief and high priest of the Laguatan, was killed while trying to rescue the image of Gurzil.

According to the 9th-century Muslim writer al-Bakrī, there was a placed called Gherza in Tripolitania with a hilltop sanctuary containing a stone idol that the Berber tribes from the surrounding region still worshiped.

The relief carving of a horned god at Volubilis has been tentatively identified as Gurzil. This would be the only evidence of his worship outside of Tripolitania.