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Conception and Birth
Great Riches do not Fill the Heart
Her Quest for Conception
The Locust Becomes a Baby
The Baby Chooses a Wife and Refuses Names
Boasts of the Hero
His Quest for a Birthplace

Childhood
A Difficult Naming
The Adversary
The Boy Becomes a Man
His Companions; His Weapons
Proves His Manhood
Ibonia is Tested
He Combats Beast and Man
He Refuses Other Wives

The Quests
He Dresses in an Old Man's Skin
An Old Man Becomes Stone Man's Rival
Victory
Ibonia Prescribes Laws and Bids Farewell