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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: What Ibonia is and How to Read it
2. How to Read Ibonia: Folkloric Restatement
3. What it is: Texts, Plural
4. Texture and Structure: How it is Made
5. Context, History, Interpretation
6. Ibonia, He of the Clear and Captivating Glance
There Is No Child
Her Quest for Conception
The Locust Becomes a Baby
The Baby Chooses a Wife and Refuses Names
His Quest for a Birthplace
Yet Unnamed
Refusing Names from Princes
The Name for a Perfected Man
Power
Stone Man Shakes
He Refuses More Names
Games
He Arms Himself
He Is Tested
He Combats Beast and Man
He Refuses Other Wives
The Disguised Flayer
An Old Man Becomes Stone Man’s Rival
Victory: "Dead, I Do Not Leave You on Earth; Living, I Give You to No Man”
Return of the Royal Couple
Ibonia Prescribes Laws and Bids Farewell
