Thohoyandou, 'Head of the Elephant', is the greatest of the Singo kings and the towering figure of Venda dynastic memory, a son of Dyambeu who reigned from the stone capital of Dzata. Under him the kingdom reached its widest bounds, stretching from the Vhembe in the north to the Crocodile river in the south, and Delagoa Bay records of the 1720s attest the reach of his power. Tradition surrounds his end with mystery: in a bitter succession quarrel the god Mwali is said to have withdrawn from the royal house, after which Thohoyandou was defeated in war and vanished utterly, in the best-known telling walking into the sacred waters of Lake Fundudzi. He left no grave and no certain death, and his disappearance passed into legend; the modern capital of the Venda region bears his name.