It was a sign of lofty lineage for the native aristocracy to claim descent from ancient Uthlanga, the primeval land of birth.
The Basutos identify Uthlanga the human birthplace with a cavern in the earth that was surrounded by a morass of reeds.
The Zulu birthplace in the bed of reeds was repeated and continued in the nest of reeds and the morass that were mythically represented as the birthplace of the child, which was constellated as the uranograph of Horus springing from the reed.
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