G. B. ii. 56; i. 151 et. seq.
135
G. B. i. 80-82.
136
The mortals who incarnate gods are catalogued in G. B. vol. i. pp. 139-157. Not one is said to be put to death.
137
G. B. i. 80, 81.
138
G. B. ii. 6-8.
139
G. B. ii. 8-57.
140
G. B. i. 236.
141
G. B. ii. 11.
142
Emin Pasha in Central Africa, p. 91.
143
G. B. i. 155; compare ii. 10.
144
Callaway, Religion of the Amazulu, p. 122.
145
Here the facts of Dos Santos are confused. In volume i. p. 155 we read: 'The King of Quiteva, in Eastern Africa, ranks with the deity;' 'indeed, the Caffres acknowledge no other gods than their monarch, and to him they address those prayers which other nations are wont to prefer to heaven' (Dos Santos, Pinkerton, xvi. 682, 687, seq.). If the Caffres have no gods, a god cannot be incarnate in their king. But, elsewhere in Dos Santos (ii. p. 10), there is no 'King of Quiteva' (as in i. p. 155). Quiteva is no longer a district, but we read 'contiguous to the domains of the Quiteva;' a title like 'the Inca,' in fact, as Dos Santos tells us the Quiteva is 'the King of Sofala.' Is Sofala also known as Quiteva, and the King of Sofala as 'the Quiteva'? The King of Quiteva 'ranks with the deity' – though the Caffres have no deity for him to rank with (ii. 155). But when the Quiteva becomes 'King of Sofala' (ii. 10), the neighbouring prince who kills himself is 'the Sedanda,' who is not said to 'rank with the deity.' And Dos Santos assures us that the Caffres have a God, unworshipped!
146
Prophecies of the Brahan Seer, Mackay, Stirling, 1900.
147
G. B. ii. 18.
148
G. B. ii. 18-24.
149
G. B. i. 139-157.
150
G. B. ii. 8-24.
151
G. B. iii. 197.
152
G. B. ii. 24, 26.
153
G. B. iii. 194.
154
Spencer and Gillen, Glossary, s. v. Alatuja and pp. 9-11.
155
G. B. iii. 178.
156
Ibid.
157
G. B. ii. 26.
158
G. B. ii. 26.
159