In the beginning God (Nzambi) created a man and a woman.  The woman’s name was
Ya Ndosimau.  The first man and the first woman conceived a child.  Then God
gave this prohibition: "If the child dies, do not bury it.  Lay it in a corner
of the house and cover it with wood.  After three days it will rise up." They
didn’t believe God. The child died. They buried the body.  Then God came and
said: "I told you not to bury the child.  You buried it.  Therefore all your
descendants will be subject to sickness and death since you transgressed against
my instructions."  So it is that if they had not buried the child everything
would have been different.  We would have died but just as the moon dies and
later comes back again, we also would have had life again.