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The ''Ibálong'', also known as ''Handiong'' or ''Handyong'', is a 60-stanza fragment of a Bicolano full-length
The ''Ibálong'', also known as ''Handiong'' or ''Handyong'', is a 60-stanza fragment of a Bicolano full-length folk
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epic of Bicol region
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, based on the Indian Hindu
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epics Ramayana
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and Mahabharata
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. The epic is said to have been narrated in verse form by a native poet
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called ''Kadunung''.
It was passed on orally until it was presumably jotted down in its complete Bicol narrative by Fray Bernardino de Melendreras de la Trinidad. The Ibalong portrays deeds in heroic proportions, centering on white men or ''tawong-lipod'' who were warrior-heroes named, among others, ''Baltog'', ''Handyong'', and ''Bantong''. They came from Boltavara, settling and ruling ''Bicolandia'' and its inhabitants. The epic is set in the land of Aslon and Ibalong. The mountains Asog, Masaraga, Isarog, and Lingyon were prominent features of the area.
In its oldest known text, the folk epic does not have a title. Its oldest existing account is written in Spanish
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A non-religious festival
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called the Ibalong Festival The ''Ibalong Festival'' is a non-religious festival in Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines based on the Ibalong Epic, and is held on August. The festival celebrates the epic story Ibalong who was accompanied by three legendary heroes, namely Baltog, ...
is celebrated annually in honor of the epic ''Ibalong'' as a commemoration of the Ibalon
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geography. It is unusual because Spaniards
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introduced saints and fiestas and all religious-related activities except Ibalong. It is also a celebration of the province's people
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and their resiliency, given the string calamities that regularly befall the region given its typhoon
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-prone geographical location.
History
The full-length narrative is presumably jotted down by Fray Bernardino de Melendreras de la Trinidad (1815-1867), aFranciscan
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missionary in Guinobatan, Albay
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, when he got acquainted with an errant Bicolano bard referred to in the epic as Kadunung. It was put afterward into Spanish
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by Melendreras in Ibal, a 400-page manuscript in verse on the ancient customs of the ''Indios'' of Albay
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