The Amazons of North Africa during the Ice Age were probably self-named meaning motherly love, from those days Tifanagh (phonetic) writing since discovered in caves and on cliff faces where today is Sahara desert, back then verdant, and that phonetic Semitic writing system (named for the Canaanite prince Phoenix) perhaps having been assumed soon after the Tower of Babel or maybe somewhat later by whom would be called the Phoenicians come to visit their distant kinswomen.