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THE LEGEND OF TANGKUBAN PERAHU
MOUNTAIN
Once, there was a kingdom in Priangan Land.
Lived a happy family. They were a father in form of dog, his name is Tumang, a
mother which was called is Dayang Sumbi, and a child which was called Sangkuriang.
One day, Dayang Sumbi asked her son to go
hunting with his lovely dog, Tumang. After hunting all day, Sangkuriang began
desperate and worried because he hunted no deer. Then he thought to shot his
own dog. Then he took the dog liver and carried home.
Soon Dayang Sumbi found out that it was not
deer lever but Tumang’s, his own dog. So, She was very angry and hit
Sangkuriang’s head. In that incident, Sangkuriang got wounded and scar then
cast away from their home.
Years go bye, Sangkuriang had travel many
places and finally arrived at a village. He met a beautiful woman and felt in
love with her. When they were discussing their wedding plans, The woman looked
at the wound in Sangkuriang’s head. It matched to her son’s wound who had left
severall years earlier. Soon she realized that she felt in love with her own
son.
She couldn’t marry him but how to say it. Then,
she found the way. She needed a lake and a boat for celebrating their wedding
day. Sangkuriang had to make them in one night. He built a lake. With a dawn
just moment away and the boat was almost complete. Dayang Sumbi had to stop it.
Then, she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes of light. It made the cock
crowed for a new day.
Sangkuriang failed
to marry her. She was very angry and kicked the boat. It felt over and became
the mountain of Tangkuban Perahu Bandung.
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