Mogador is a deformation of the Amazigh name Mougadir, mou, that which has, agadir, means at the same time the wall, the wall and the collective deposit, which played at the same time the role of depository, bank, court, place of celebration, small parliament, and place of worship. It is guarded by an elected man, just and renowned for his honesty, his uprightness, his impartiality, his knowledge, venerated and qualified as Agrrame, a priest in the cult agrarian.
The natives were specialists in the manufacture of purple, a blood red color with which they dyed their white woolen clothes, a dye produced from the ink of the murex, a mollusk living in the coastal sea of Mougadir and its surroundings.
Mougadir is, in the civilizational and cultural sense, a city deposit, agadir or tagadirt in diminutif, translated into tassourte, small wall by our enemies, who only want to see there an enclosure or wall and not an agadir which is translated by the word Arab of Makhzen, no longer in the sense of deposit but of administration, repression and security, just a detail or a function among those of the former Amazigh Agadir.
Each conqueror only wants to see it as one of his counters without ever recognizing that the natives were already there and traded in the same way with all the ancient peoples of the Mediterranean. In the big island of Mougadir, there was the villa of Juba II and a rock which bears the name of “The rock of the Pharaoh” and it is known that Juba II was also considered a Pharaoh and his palace and city of Volubilis in the North is qualified as palace of the Pharaoh “qsr firaoune”. The ancient scribes of the pharaohs engraved on the rocks writings which marked the passage of the Pharaohs. There were workshops for the manufacture of purple from the still of the murex, a mollusc who lived in abundance in the coastal sea of Mougadir and its surroundings.
Following the excavations made on the big island, we found a statue of Juba II as a child and as we gave an artist friend, Mustapha Boumzough, the creation of a fountain in front of Bab Sbaa, the lion’s door, that is- that of Juba II, symbolized by the lion. He proposed to the municipal council to put the statue of Juba II on it. The idea was accepted at the beginning and the council was going to ask for the return of this statue from the capital Rabat to Mugadir. Only, the child’s genitals are clearly visible, like Roman statues, and the council ended up backtracking on the pretext that this is not suitable in a conservative Muslim environment. That is the big difference between the Amazigh civilization of the great learned Amazigh king Juba II and the obscurantist and bigoted Muslim civilization of today.