The Religious System of the Amazulu - Izinyanga Zokubula; Or, Divination, as Existing Among the Amazulu, in Their Own Words, With a Translation Into English, and Notes #268247

This account is, however, a promise of renovation through death. The New Zealand legend again may be compared, where we meet with rather a foreshadowing of redemption through One destroying death by passing through it, than an account of the cause of death entering into the world. Maui is made liable to death by some acci dental omission of a part of the baptismal ritual, — a cause as trivial as the delay of the chameleon, or the false message of the hare.