SANGKURIANG AND TANGKUBAN PERAHU MOUNTAIN
Once,
there was a kingdom in Priangan Land. There lived a happy family. They were a
father in form of dog named Tumang, a mother named Dayang Sumbi, and a child
who 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
husband. 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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