Jun 19, 2013

The Story of Tangkuban Perahu

Posted by Sweet Linguist at 6:55 AM

Tangkuban Perahu


In West Java, Bandung regency precisely in recreation there is a very beautiful place that is Mount Tangkuban Perahu. Tangkuban Perahu means boat upside down. Named because its shape it resembles an upside-down boat. It is said that according to folklore parahyangan mountain was indeed an upside-down boat. Here is his story...
Thousands of years ago, the land Parahyangan led by a king and a queen who just had a daughter. Daughter was named Dayang Sumbi. She is very pretty and intelligent, unfortunately she is very spoiled. On a day when she was weaving on the porch of the palace, Dayang Sumbi feel weak and dizzy. She dropped to the floor of the yarn spun many times. When spun fall for the umpteenth time Dayang Sumbi became angry and swore, she would marry anyone who would get spun it. Right after the words were spoken oath, comes a magical dog named Tumang and submit it to the hand spun Dayang Sumbi. So inevitably, in accordance with her oath, Dayang Sumbi should marry the dog.
Dayang  Sumbi and Tumang live happily until they were blessed with a child who is a son of man but have magic powers like his father. The child was named Sangkuriang. In its infancy, is always accompanied Sangkuring played by a dog named Tumang who he knew only as a faithful dog, not as a father. Sangkuriang grown into a handsome young man and gallant.
One day Dayang Sumbi sent his son to hunt deer with dogs for the purposes of any party. After a long search with no results, Sangkuriang feel hopeless, but he did not want to disappoint his mother. So he is forced to take a crossbow and pointed it at Tumang. Arriving home he handed Tumang meat on her. Dayang Sumbi who thought it was venison meat, feeling elated over his success.
Soon after the party Dayang Sumbi remembered Tumang and asked her son where Tumang located. At first Sangkuriang feel scared, he finally told with her what had happened to his mother. Dayang Sumbi became very angry, in a rage he hit Sangkuriang unconscious right in the forehead. For the offense Dayang Sumbi expelled from the kingdom by his father. Fortunately Sangkuriang regained consciousness but punches his mother left a very big scar in forehead. After that, Sangkuriang went wandering to know the state of the outside world.
Several years later, Sangkuriang met a very beautiful woman. He immediately fell in love with the woman. The woman is his own mother, but they did not recognize each other. Sangkuriang proposed, Dayang Sumbi was received with pleasure. The day before the wedding day, when her fiance was stroking hair, Dayang Sumbi see the wide scar on the forehead Sangkuriang, she finally realizes that she almost married his own son. Knowing that Dayang Sumbi try to thwart the marriage. After thinking hard she finally decides to propose marriage that requirement can not be granted by Sangkuriang. The condition is that: Sangkuriang must make a dam that could cover the entire mountain, and make a boat to the dam down. All that must be completed before dawn.
Sangkuriang start working. His love is so great on Sangkuriang gave a strange power. Do not forget he also uses the power he got from his father to summon the jinn and help. With mud and water from the soil they are to stem the rivers and springs. Sometime before dawn, Sangkuriang cut down a large tree to make a boat. When Dayang Sumbi see that Sangkuriang almost completed its work, she prayed to the Gods to thwart his job and speed up the arrival of the morning.

Rooster crows, the sun rises earlier than usual and Sangkuriang realized that he had been cheated. With very angry he cursed Dayang Sumbi and kicking a homemade boat nearly so to the middle of the forest. It was there in the boat upside down, and formed Mount Tangkuban Perahu (boat upside down). Not far from that place are leftover tree stumps from cutting Sangkuriang, now we know him as the Mount Tunggul. Dams are made Sangkuriang cause the entire hill filled with water and formed a lake where Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi drown themselves and has not been heard until now. 

 

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