So they returned here, to Dzivarasekwa. They called it Dzivarasekwa because that is where they first started giving each other names, saying, “You are called so-and-so. You are called so-and-so, you are called so-and-so.”
During their migration they didn’t call each other by name, they simply said, “You, you!” The only name they had was Soko, or Pfumojena, or Murenga – those were their only names. So eventually they started giving each other names, until names were common across the entire country.
With those names, they ended up simply calling each person according to his individual deeds, until names were widely distributed.
There was a tree that had bees in it. So, we call that mudzinga wenyuchi. So that tree was very large. They tried to remove the honey from the hive, and they carried on extracting more and more of the honey and eating it.
So some of it was so far away, and one of them said, “Oh, what if we took a long pole in order to get at the honey?” Then another laughed, and said, “You are Chingoo (Long pole).” Then one of them said, “Oh look, the fire has gotten wet.” They said, “You are Mutota (One who is wet).” Then one said, “I have eaten the honey!” They said, “You have finished all of our honey, you are Murozvi (One who takes what is not his).”
So they carried on giving names to people according to what they did or said. Then when a person bore a child, that child would be given a name. So that is how names came about.