Pardieu! O Mussulmans, you
Have repudiated Kabyle honor."
With the Berbers of lower Morocco the women's songs are called by the Arab name Eghna.
If the woman, as in all Mussulman society, plays an inferior role--inferior to that allowed to her in our modern civilizations--she is not less the object of songs which celebrate the power given her by beauty:
"O bird with azure plumes,
Go, be my messenger--
I ask thee that thy flight be swift;
Take from me now thy recompense.
Rise with the dawn--ah, very soon--