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    The epic poem opens with a bard named Kadunung recounting the tale of the ancient land of Ibálong to Iling. The summary describes the first hero, Baltog, who killed a giant boar and was acknowledged as the chief of hunters. Next came the hero Handyong, who fought monsters across the land with his followers. While he could not defeat the serpent Oryol, who appeared as a beautiful woman, she eventually helped Handyong rid the region of ferocious beasts. With peace established, Handyong instituted wise laws, agriculture, and cultural developments. However, a great flood later changed the landscape, forming new geographic features like lakes and altering river paths. The

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    The epic poem opens with a bard named Kadunung recounting the tale of the ancient land of Ibálong to Iling. The summary describes the first hero, Baltog, who killed a giant boar and was acknowledged as the chief of hunters. Next came the hero Handyong, who fought monsters across the land with his followers. While he could not defeat the serpent Oryol, who appeared as a beautiful woman, she eventually helped Handyong rid the region of ferocious beasts. With peace established, Handyong instituted wise laws, agriculture, and cultural developments. However, a great flood later changed the landscape, forming new geographic features like lakes and altering river paths. The

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    The epic poem opens with a bard named Kadunung recounting the tale of the ancient land of Ibálong to Iling. The summary describes the first hero, Baltog, who killed a giant boar and was acknowledged as the chief of hunters. Next came the hero Handyong, who fought monsters across the land with his followers. While he could not defeat the serpent Oryol, who appeared as a beautiful woman, she eventually helped Handyong rid the region of ferocious beasts. With peace established, Handyong instituted wise laws, agriculture, and cultural developments. However, a great flood later changed the landscape, forming new geographic features like lakes and altering river paths. The

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    IBALONG EPIC

    The epic opens with Iling requesting the bard Kadunung to recount the tale of the
    glorious Ibálong of long ago. Kadunung described the ancient land and spoke of its first
    hero, Baltog, a White Aryan, who had come from Boltavara (Bharata-varsha or India).
    He planted a linsa patch in Tondol (now in Kamalig) which, one night, was foraged by a
    giant wild boar (Tandayag). The furious Baltog chased the Tandayag, killed it with his
    bare hands, and hung its enormous jawbones on a talisay tree in front of his house in
    Tondol. For this marvelous feat, he was acknowledged chief of the local hunters. The
    clans of Panicuason and Asog came over to marvel at the monstrous wild boar in
    Ibálong.
    Next to come was Handyong. With his followers, he fought the monsters of the land. But
    Oryol, a wily serpent who appeared as a beautiful maiden with a seductive voice, was
    one whom Handyong could not destroy. Meanwhile, Oryol admired Handyong’s bravery
    and gallantry. Because of this, Oryol helped Handyong clear the region of ferocious
    beasts until peace came to the whole of the land.
    With Ibálong rid of wild creatures, Handyong turned to making wise laws and planting
    the land to linsa and rice. A period of invention followed: boat, farming tools, weaving
    looms, claywares, kitchen utensils, tree houses, and even a syllabary. Together, the
    people built a society with culture. It was a golden period in Ibálong when even slaves
    were respected under the laws of Handyong. Then came a great flood, freed by Unos,
    that changed the features of the land. Three volcanoes, named Hantik, Kulasi, and
    Isarog erupted simultaneously. Inundations caused lands to sink, from which Lake Buhi
    came about, or rise, as in the strip of seacoast in Pasacao, Camarines Sur, and wiped
    out many settlements, especially the Dagatnong settlement in the Kalabangan Gulf. The
    Malbogong Islet formed in the Bicol River. The Inarihan River altered its course. A lofty
    mountain sank at Bato, forming a lake.
    Despite the calamities, Ibálong grew powerful under Old Chief Handyong, whose
    constant companion and good friend, by then, was the young Bantong. Although given a
    thousand men to destroy the half man and half beast Rabot, who could change its
    enemies into rocks, Bantong slew it single-handedly – to the loud cheers of his
    thousand warriors that reverberated throughout the forests and mangroves swamps.
    Brought to Ligmanan, the corpse of Rabot was horrible to behold. The Great Handyong
    himself was shocked at the sight.
    At this point, the Ibalong epic-fragment ends abruptly, and Kadunung promises to
    continue the story some other time.
    - Dr. Merito B. Espinas

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