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the emperor most certainly was born - check his page.

to paraphrase - one year after the shaman all sacrificed themselves their combined soul/psyche was reincarnated in a child born to a family in a neolithic settlement of farmers and herders.

reincarnate being the defining term here, as the shaman specialised in reincarnation - the transfer of consciousness from dying life to new life.