answers: Bikol
context: during his fight with the Young Man of Sakadna. In the "Tale of Sandayo", Bolak Sonday searches for Sandayo in the Underworld when he dies. When Bolak Sonday dies, Mendepesa is sento to look for her soul. When Islamic missionaries came to Mindanao and converted the Moros to become Muslims, some changes were adapted for the Mindanaoan epics to conform to this change of faith, thus, there are more epics from mostly Visayas and Mindanao that did survive. In the epic of Maranao, "Darangen", for instance, they have made Muslim prophet Muhammad as the forefather of the hero, Bantugen. Today, </s> isles Filipinas-1604). Established epic poems of notable quality and length blossomed. And early historians like Padre Colin, Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga and Antonio Pigafetta have all attested to the existence of these epics. There were even reports of a dramatic play given by natives at the arrival of Don Miguel López de Legazpi in 1565. Epic poems and songs about the exploits of enchanted folk heroes were performed during festivities and proper occasions. Most often, these epic poems (folk epics or ethno-epics) were titled after the names of the hero involved, except for some which carry traditional titles like the </s> given the string calamities that regularly befall the region given its typhoon-prone geographical location. The full-length narrative is presumably jotted down by (1815-1867), a Franciscan missionary in Guinobatan, Albay, when he got acquainted with an errant bard referred to in the epic as Kadunung. It was put afterward into Spanish by Melendreras in Ibal, a 400-age manuscript in verse on the ancient customs of the Indios of Albay. The sixty-stanza portion was later included in a treatise on the Bikol region by Fray Jose Castaño in 1895. However, no credit was given to Melendreras by Castaño in the work, and
question: from what region of the philippines came the ibalong epic