through a dream and vision, matitta is said to have seen his death approaching and where his resting place would be. it was to be in the family ‘ash heap’ some twenty or so yards from his parental home and not in the public cemetery. in the rural areas, a person would be buried in the family yard, but matitta was divinely given a different space. some have alluded the significance to the prophet's choice of his resting place to propound the theory that he intended by that gesture to proclaim that place as belonging to the church he had founded and some maintain that this was equally supported by an inscription on one of the stones of the monument in which he placed his two daughters in the ‘trusteeship’ of the church. after his death in 1935, his followers collected funds and built up his grave into a monument.