死しに変かわる

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

die and be reborn as something else

Used in mythological, fantasy, or metaphorical contexts where a being dies and its essence transforms into another form, such as a human becoming a spirit or a creature becoming a natural phenomenon.

• 伝でん説せつでは、その英えい雄ゆうは死しに変かわって守しゅ護ご神しんになったという。

  Legend says that the hero died and was reborn as a guardian deity.

• 彼かの女じょは死しに変かわるようにして、新あたらしい人じん生せいを歩あゆみ始はじめた。

  As if dying and being reborn, she began a new life.