The chameleon is a herald of eternal life in many Bantu mythologies.
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BANTU - BL2390 - BL2490
"While Bantu religion has many diversities ... its most widespread features are the following: a great concern for ancestral spirits, who constitute the principle guardians of morality (so that some would describe its predominant characteristic as 'ancestralism'), a fear of witchcraft and a belief in one supreme God who, while seldom fairly described as otiose, is hardly ever the recipient of much public worship."