There are only three kinds of food that he eats — meat, and the dregs of beer mixed with boiled maize ; if these cannot be had he eats wild herbs. That is the food on which he lives. He does not put amasi into his mouth by any means ; he dislikes it, and it disagrees with him.
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The Religious System of the Amazulu by Henry Callaway (1870) documents the sacred beliefs, creation myths, and divination practices of the Zulu people of South Africa — the most authoritative early record of Zulu spiritual tradition, with original Zulu texts alongside English translation.
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- Zulu
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- The Religious System of the Amazulu
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- ZU.1163
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- BenevolenceKindness
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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace and goodwill towards all people.
True religion teaches us to come together, rise above all kinds of discrimination, and treat all beings as children of the same Supreme Father, serving and loving them selflessly and genuinely.
I have loved you with an everlasting love, and so I have drawn you to myself with loving kindness.
There is one God, whose name is true, the creator, beyond fear, beyond vengeance, timeless, unborn, self-existent, and benevolent by the Guru's grace.
No heart is dark when the kind moon shines.