Baltog is the first of the three heroes of the fragmentary Bicolano folk epic Ibalong. Reckoned a member of the invisible 'cloud people' (tawong-lipod) and coming from a distant homeland, he settled the land of Ibalong and taught its people to cultivate the grain linsa. When a colossal wild boar ravaged his field at Tondol, Baltog killed the beast barehanded and hung its huge jawbones on a talisay tree, a feat that won him recognition as chief of the local hunters and drew neighbouring clans to marvel at the carcass. His episode opens the epic's larger narrative of humanity taming the wild land, later continued by Handyong and Bantong.