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In the mythology of this country, the first woman chooses to die like the moon, while the first man chooses to die like a banana plant. An epic hero of this country is conceived after his mother visits the Male Rock of Thousand Corners and eats a locust, and he later rejects a series of proposed names like “Big-Maned Cat” and “Manly Princess.” That hero from this country disguises himself in Old Man’s skin and wins a game of cross-sticks, and participates in metaphor-heavy verbal duels exemplifying the hainteny poetic genre. In that namesake epic of this country, a hero skilled at playing the (*) valiha (10[1])cuts his way out of the womb with a knife after a ten year gestation. That hero from this country defeats Stone Man to rescue his cousin Girl (10[1])of Grace. For 10 points, the Ibonia is an epic of what country, where the diminutive (10[1])Vazimba people were ancestors (10[1])of the Merina Kingdom? ■END■

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