The Legend of the mountain of Tangkuban Perahu
Once upon a time, in Pasundan land, West Java, there was a beautiful woman who was actually a beautiful heavenly goddess. Her name was DayangSumbi. She lived in a hut at the forest with her faithful dog, Tumang.
One day , while weaving cloth, she lost one of the tools. Being tired of looking for it everywhere, DayangSumbi said to herself. “Anyone who can find my lost tool and give it back to me, if he is male, I”ll make him a husband and if she is female, I”ll make her a sister”. To her shock, Tumang found the tool and returned it to her. Unavoidably, DayangSumbi had to fulfill her own promise to marry Tumang, who was once a man who had been cursed by an evil witch into a dog.
It so happened that DayangSumbi bore a baby son and named it Sangkuriang. Sangkuriang grew into a healthy teenager who liked hunting animals in the forest. DayangSumbi never told Sangkuriang that Tumang was his father.
One day, Sangkuriang and Tumang hunted for a deer in the forest. Soon they met a boar. Sangkuriangwondered , “why isn’t there any deer today? But I think a boar will not make any difference”. Sangkuriang shouted at Tumang, “go and fight the boar. Kill it for me!”.
To his surprise ,Tumang didn’t kill the boar because the boar was actually DayangSumbi’s mother. The boar went away safely. This made Sangkuriang so furious that the killed Tumang. Then , he took out the dog’s heart and gave it to DayangSumbi. Having eaten the heart, DayangSumbi askedSangkuriang, “By the way, where is Tumang? I haven’t seen him since you came back from hunting”. “Mother,” replied Sangkuriang softly. “I killed Tumang for his disobedience. The heart that you ate was really Tumang’s heart.”
“You! You are an ungrateful child!” cried DayangSumbi hitting a soup ladle onto Sangkuriang’s head violently until his head was bleeding. “Get out of my face, you murdered. How dare you killed your own father. You are an useless son!”.
Bleeding on the head, Sangkuriang ran away into the deep forest and up to the hill. Years passed by, Sangkuriang turned into a handsome and a skillful hunter. He had forgotten all his bitter past because he had lost his memory. He even forgot about his name.
One day, Sangkuriang met a beatiful women in the forest with whom he fell in love. The women wasDayangSumbi, who could not grow old as she was a goddes. Sangkuriang did not recognize her own mother, but DayangSumbirecognizeSangkuriang from the old scar on his head.
Depply in love, Sangkuriang proposed her to marry. To avoid the forbidden marriage between a mother and a son, DayangSumbi asked him to make a man made lake and a boat in one night as a weeding gift for her. With the help of the unseen creatures from the forest, Sangkuriang built the lake and the boat.
DayangSumbi knew about it and she outwitted Sangkuriang, so that the work was not completely done. Knowing this, Sangkuriang was so angry that kicked the boat and the boat turned upside down. It became the mountain of TangkubanPerahu in West Java.
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