The Mwindo epic follows Rank's steps very well. First, his mother suffers trials and is reduced to the lowest wife, which meets condition one. He is born of distinguished parents, his father is the king. He is offered to water in a manner, and is raised by a lowly village. He finishes the story of by meeting the last three steps and becoming king.
After reviewing both Rank's and Raglan's hero formulas and reading the Mwindo epic it is evident that Rank's formula is much more correlated with this story. While Raglan has a very sound approach, especially in the case of Greek and Roman mythology, it just does not seem to apply to this story. Rank's formula on the other hand follows almost exactly. All of the little details are met in Ranks formula, from the mother having trials having Mwindo, to being surrendered to water and returning for revenge.
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