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The legend of the mountain of tangkuban perahu
Once upon a time, in pasundan land, west java, there was a beautiful women, who was actually a beautiful heavenly goddess. Her name was dayang sumbi. 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, dayang sumbi said to herself,” anyone who can find my lost tool and give it back to me, if he is a male, I’ll make him a husband and if she is a female, I’ll make her asister “
To her shock, tumang found the tool and return it her. Unavoidably, dayang dayang sumbi 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 dayang sumbi bore a baby son and named it sangkuriang. Sangkuriang grew into a healthy teenager who liked hunting animals in the forest. Dayang sumbi never tool sangkuriang that tumang was his father.
One day, sangkuriang and tumang hunted for a deer in the forest. Soon they meet a boar. Sangkuriang wondered,”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 has surprise, tumang didn’t kill the boar because the boar was actually dayang sumbi’s mother. The boar went away safely. This made sangkuriang so furious that he killed tumang. Then, he took out the dog’s heart and gave it to dayang sumbi.
Having eaten the heart, dayang sumbi asked sangkuriang,” by the way, where is tumang? I haven’t seen him since you come back from hunting.”
“ mother,” replied sangkuriang softly. “ I killed tumang for his disobedience. The heart that you ate was really tumang heart’s”
“you !..you are an ungretefull child” cried dayang sumbi, hitting a soup ladle onto sangkuriang’s had violantly until his head was bleeding. “ get out of my face, you murderer. How dare you kill your own father. You are a useless son !”
Bleeding on the head, sangkuriang run away into the deep forest and up to the hill. Years passed by, sangkuriang turned into handsome and he 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 beautiful women in the forest with whom he fell in love. The women was dayang sumbi, who could not grow old as she was a goddess. Sangkuriang did not recognize her own mother, but dayang sumbi recognize sangkuriang from the old scar on his head.
Deeply in love, sangkuriang proposed her to marry. To avoid the forbidden marriage between a mother and a son, dayang sumbi asked him to make a man made lake and a boat in one night as awedding gift for her. With the help of the unseen creatures from the forest, sangkuriang built the lake and the boat. Dayang sumbi knew about it and the outwitted sangkuriang so that the work was not completely done. Knowing this, sangkuriang was so angry that the kicked the boat and the turned upside down. It become the mountain of tangkuban perahu in west java.
Once upon a time, in pasundan land, west java, there was a beautiful women, who was actually a beautiful heavenly goddess. Her name was dayang sumbi. 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, dayang sumbi said to herself,” anyone who can find my lost tool and give it back to me, if he is a male, I’ll make him a husband and if she is a female, I’ll make her asister “
To her shock, tumang found the tool and return it her. Unavoidably, dayang dayang sumbi 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 dayang sumbi bore a baby son and named it sangkuriang. Sangkuriang grew into a healthy teenager who liked hunting animals in the forest. Dayang sumbi never tool sangkuriang that tumang was his father.
One day, sangkuriang and tumang hunted for a deer in the forest. Soon they meet a boar. Sangkuriang wondered,”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 has surprise, tumang didn’t kill the boar because the boar was actually dayang sumbi’s mother. The boar went away safely. This made sangkuriang so furious that he killed tumang. Then, he took out the dog’s heart and gave it to dayang sumbi.
Having eaten the heart, dayang sumbi asked sangkuriang,” by the way, where is tumang? I haven’t seen him since you come back from hunting.”
“ mother,” replied sangkuriang softly. “ I killed tumang for his disobedience. The heart that you ate was really tumang heart’s”
“you !..you are an ungretefull child” cried dayang sumbi, hitting a soup ladle onto sangkuriang’s had violantly until his head was bleeding. “ get out of my face, you murderer. How dare you kill your own father. You are a useless son !”
Bleeding on the head, sangkuriang run away into the deep forest and up to the hill. Years passed by, sangkuriang turned into handsome and he 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 beautiful women in the forest with whom he fell in love. The women was dayang sumbi, who could not grow old as she was a goddess. Sangkuriang did not recognize her own mother, but dayang sumbi recognize sangkuriang from the old scar on his head.
Deeply in love, sangkuriang proposed her to marry. To avoid the forbidden marriage between a mother and a son, dayang sumbi asked him to make a man made lake and a boat in one night as awedding gift for her. With the help of the unseen creatures from the forest, sangkuriang built the lake and the boat. Dayang sumbi knew about it and the outwitted sangkuriang so that the work was not completely done. Knowing this, sangkuriang was so angry that the kicked the boat and the turned upside down. It become the mountain of tangkuban perahu in west java.
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