<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia . Please help improve this article by adding links that are relevant to the context within the existing text . (February 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia . Please help improve this article by adding links that are relevant to the context within the existing text . (February 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Ibálong, also known as Handiong or Handyong, is a 60 - stanza fragment of a Bikol full - length folk epic of Bikol region of Philippines, based on the Indian Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharta . The epic is said to have been narrated in verse form by a native poet called Kadunung . It was passed on orally until it was presumably jotted down in its complete Bikol 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 Bikolandia 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 . </P> <P> In its oldest known text, the folk epic does not have a title . The oldest existing account of it is written in Spanish . </P>

From what region of the philippines came the ibalong epic