Tandayag

Tandayag is the enormous wild boar of the Ibalong epic, the first of the land's monstrous beasts to be overcome. The name reflects a Bikol term for something of gigantic size. The boar destroyed the grain fields that Baltog had newly planted at Tondol; when the hero killed it barehanded and displayed its jawbones on a talisay tree, its carcass became a marvel that drew clans from surrounding districts. As a named menace of the wilds it belongs to the same class of monstrous adversaries as the serpent Oryol and the beast Rabot who challenge the epic's heroes.

Domains

• wild beasts

Powers

• to devastate cultivated fields

Relations

• enemy: BaltogThe destructive boar is the adversary whom the pioneer-hero Baltog kills in the opening episode of the epic.Espinas, Merito B. (1968). Ibalong: The Bikol Folk Epic-Fragment. Unitas 41(3), University of Santo Tomas. (secondary)

Sources

• Tandayag is the monstrous giant wild boar of the Ibalong epic, ravager of Baltog's fields, slain by the hero with his bare hands.: Espinas, Merito B. (1968). Ibalong: The Bikol Folk Epic-Fragment. Unitas 41(3), University of Santo Tomas (reissued 1996, UST Publishing House). (secondary); Eugenio, Damiana L. (2001). Philippine Folk Literature: The Epics. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. (secondary)