Saturday, May 7, 2011

Origins Mount Tangkuban Perahu

In West Java, Bandung regency is exactly in the Arts is a very nice place, Mount Tangkuban Perahu. Tangkuban Perahu means a boat that is lifted. Named because its shape is certainly like an inverted boat. It is said that after Parahyangan mountain folklore, in fact, an inverted boat. Here is his story.
Thousands of years ago, led the country Parahyangan of a king and a queen who just had a daughter. Prince said Dayang Sumbi. She is very pretty and intelligent, but unfortunately he was very spoiled. On a day when it weaving on the porch of the palace, Dayang Sumbi felt weak and dizzy. He left the spun yarn on the floor many times. If pintalannya for the umpteenth time Dayang Sumbi fall was angry and swore she would marry whoever pintalannya would get it. Soon after these words were uttered the oath, came a dog named Tumang magic and hand it spun in the hands of Dayang Sumbi. So like it or not, in accordance with his oath to marry Dayang Sumbi should the dog. 
Dayang Tumang Sumbi and happy life until a child, a son of man, but a magic power, as his father blessed. This boy named Sangkuriang. In times of growth, then accompanied Sangkuring a piece of a dog named Tumang that he knew was like a faithful dog, not as a father. Sangkuriang grew into a beautiful young and gallant.
In one day, Dayang Sumbi sent his son to go with his dog to hunt deer for a feast. After a long search with no results, Sangkuriang feel desperate, but he did not want to disappoint her mother. So with a very forced him to bow and pointed it at Tumang. Upon arrival at the house, which he passed to his mother Tumang meat. dayanng Sumbi who thinks the meat, game, happy for the success of their children.Soon after the party was over Dayang Sumbi Tumang remembered and asked his son when Tumang away. At first Sangkuriang feel fear, Tapa he said at last, what happened to her mother. Dayang Sumbi was very angry, the anger he slammed Sangkuriang happen right in the forehead. For the offense Dayang Sumbi were expelled from the kingdom from his father. Fortunately Sangkuriang regain consciousness but beat his mother has a very wide scars in the adult education keningnya.Setelah Sangkuriang went hiking to know the condition of the outside world.
A few years later met Sangkuriang a very beautiful woman. Soon falls in love with the woman. She is her own mother, but they do not recognize each other. Sangkuriang proposed Dayang Sumbi received with joy. The day before the wedding, as she stroked his hair fiancee, Dayang Sumbi a wide scar on his forehead Sangkuriang see it finally realizes that she almost married his own son. Knowing Dayang Sumbi try to thwart the marriage. After thinking hard, he decides to finally propose marriage requirement which can not be issued by Sangkuriang. Sangkuriang must be a dam, which can cover the whole mountain, and set the boat on the dam: Condition is. Everything must be completed before dawn.
Sangkuriang start work. Their love is so great at Sangkuriang gave him a strange power. Do not forget, he also uses the strength he can from his father to summon the jinn and help him. originate with mud and water from their land to the rivers and springs. Sometime before dawn, Sangkuriang cutting a big tree to make a boat. If Dayang Sumbi see that Sangkuriang be nearly completed work, he prayed to the gods, to thwart the work of his son and accelerate the arrival of the morning.
Rooster crowed, the sun is faster than usual and Sangkuriang clear that he had been deceived. With so angry he cursed Dayang Sumbi and cheerful home-made boat, gets almost to the middle of the forest. The boat was in the circumstances to the head, and formed the Mount Tangkuban Perahu (menelungkub boat). Not far from there, there is a residual stump of the felled Sangkuriang we now know as Mount Tunggul. Dams made Sangkuriang caused the whole hill filled with water and form a lake where Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi drown himself and reportedly had not even heard by far.

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