Jun 19, 2013

The Story of Toba Lake

Posted by Sweet Linguist at 6:51 AM

Toba Lake

In ancient times in a village in North Sumatra, there lived a farmer named Toba alone in a flat and fertile valley. The farmer was working on the farm for the purpose of his life.
Besides working on his farm, that he sometimes went fishing to the river which is not far from his home. Each time he was fishing, simply because the fish in the river gets that clear it is a lot of fish. Inducement he was cook the fish to eat.
One afternoon, after returning from the field the man went straight to the river for fishing. But long enough he did not fishing any fish gets. Events like that, never experienced before. Because it's usually easy to fish in the river he was fishing alone. For too long no one takes the bait rod, he was gets upset and decided to quit fishing. But when he was was about to pull his fishing, fishing rod suddenly it struck the fish pulled the fishing rod away ketengah river. His heart had been upset that turned into joy, Because he was knows that the fish grabbed the pole was a big fish.
After a while he was let the rod is pulled to and fro, then fishing it disentakkannya, and saw a large fish hanging and floundered at the end of his fishing rope. The fish quickly pulled to the ground so as not to loose. Smiling happily his eyes his line out of the mouth of the fish. By the time he was was removing the hook, the fish looked at him meaningfully. Then, after the fish was placed into one where he was went into the river to bathe. Feeling excited because he was never got the big fish. He smiled as he imagined how good the fish meat later when it's baked. When leaving the river to return to his house it was already dusk.
Arriving home, he immediately took the big fish results inducement to the kitchen. When he was was about to light a fire for grilling fish, firewood turns in his kitchen is up. He went out to fetch firewood from under his bottom. Then, he took a few pieces of firewood he was climbed back to the top of the house and went straight to the kitchen.
By the time he arrived in the kitchen, he was surprised at all because the big fish that is not there anymore. But in places it had placed the fish seem spread some gold coins. Surprise and wonder to experience strange circumstances, he was left the kitchen and went back to the room.
When the man opened the door of the room, his blood suddenly drained because it stood in the room of a woman with long hair loose. The woman was combing her hair as she stood facing the mirror hanging on the wall. A moment later she suddenly turned around and looked at in confusion upright room entrances. The man became very fascinated because the woman who stood before him face extraordinary beautiful. He had never seen such a beautiful woman even before he was had wandered away to various countries.
Because it was night, she asked that the lights turned on. After the man turned on the light, he was invited her to accompany him kedapur because he was wanted to cook rice for them. While waiting for the rice is cooked, it is told by the woman that he was was an incarnation of the big fish that had gained him while fishing in the river. Then explained also that some pieces of gold which is located in the kitchen is the incarnation scales. After a few weeks she states willing to accept his proposal on the condition that he should swear that all his life he was would never bring up the origin of his wife, who was transformed from fish. After he was sworn Thus, marry them.
A year later, they were blessed with a son whom they named Samosir. His mother was a very spoiled child resulting in the child less good temper and idler.
Once big enough, the child told her mother drove rice every day for his father who worked in the fields. However, he was often refused to do the job so his mother had to deliver rice to the fields.
One day, the boy asked his mother again to deliver rice to his father's farm. At first he refused. However, because of continued forced his mother, pissed off he drove with the rice. On the way, most of the rice and side dishes he ate. Arriving in the fields, the rest of the rice is just a little he gave to his father. When received, the father was feeling very hungry because once delivered late rice. Therefore, the father became very angry when he saw the rice given to him are the remains. Growing anger when his son confessed that he is consuming most of the rice. So the father lost patience and he's at his son, saying: "Son brash. Not ungrateful. Are you really the offspring of women who came from fish! "
While crying, the boy ran home to his mother in the house. He complained to his mother that he's beaten his father. All of the words spoken slur his father told him in anyway. Heard his son's story, the mother was so sad, especially since her husband has violated his oath to slur words he spoke to his son. The mother told her to immediately go up the hill located not so far from their home and climb the tallest tree located on the hilltop. Without asking again, the child's mother immediately take command. He ran toward the hill and climb it.
            When looked after by his mother almost to the top of the climb the trees on the hill, she ran towards the river which is not so far away from their homes. When she arrived on the banks of the river thunder, lightning, and the megelegar. A moment later she jumped into the river and all of a sudden turned into a big fish. At the same time, the river was flooding down anyway and heavy rain. Some time later, the river was already overflowing everywhere and drowned the valley where the river goes. Mr. Toba could not save himself, he was drowned by the inundation of water. Over time, the increasingly broad pool of water and turned into a huge lake that later called the Toba Lake. Being a small island in the middle called Samosir Island.

 

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