The
Story of Sangkuriang and 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.
Story
of Aji Saka and Dewata Cengkar
Many,
many years ago, the kingdom of Medangkamulan was ruled by a king named
Dewata-chengkar. This king had a strange and frightening habit. He liked to eat
human beings.
One day,
a young traveler arrived in the kingdom.He was called Ajisaka. Ajisaka took
shelter in the house of a widow who quickly came to look upon the young man as
her own son. When he heard of the king's strange appetite, Ajisaka sympathized
with the villagers' plight and immediately volunteered to become the king's
next meal.
Ajisaka
went directly to the king's palace.“I am willing to be your next meal. Your
Highnees. However, I have a request.“ said Aji Saka to the king. “Whatever you
please, young man, I will grant your request,“ the king replied. “Before you
eat me, grant me some land. Just enough length of my own headcloth.“ continued
Aji Saka. “Come, Young Man. Let's measure your headcloth so that I can have my
meal and you can have your land“ agreed the king.
Ajisaka
began to unwrap the cloth tied around his head. The king got down from his
throne and hold one end of the headcloth. He stepped backward. What he didn't know
was that this headcloth was much longer. The king kept going backward, step by
step, as the cloth kept unraveling. He stepped backward through the palace
square, backward across the village, holding the end of Ajisaka's headcloth.
The king kept stepping backward until reached the sea cliftts of the sea.
A great
crowd of people had gathered. They held their breath as their king took his
final step backward over the cliff's edge and plunged into the waves crashing
againts the rocks at the foot of the sea wall.
The
Legend Of Rawa Pening
Once upon a time , there was a little poor boy
came into a little village. He was verry hungry and weak. He knocked at every
door and asked for some food. But nobody cared about him. Nobody wanted to help
the little boy.
Finally,
a generous women helped him. She gave him shelter and a meal. When the boy
wanted leave. This old women gave him a “lesung”, a big wooden mortar for
pounding rice. She remided him “please remember,if there is a flood you must
save yourself. Use this “lesung” as aboat” The “lesung” was happy and thanked
the old women. The little boy countinued his journey. While he was passing
though the village. He saw many people gathering on the field. The boy come closer
and saw a stick stuck in the ground. Poeple challenged each other to pull out
that stick. Everybody tried, but nobody succeeded. “can I try?” asked the
little boy wanted to try his mockingly. The boy wanted to try his luck so the
stepped forward and pulled out the stick. He could easily. Everybody was
dumbfounded.
Suddnely, from the hole left by stick, woter
spouted out. It did not stop until it
flooded the village. And no one was saved from the water exceped the little boy
and the generous old women who gave him shalter and meal. As she told him, he
used the “lesung ”as a boat and picked up the old woman. The whole village
became a huge lake. It is now know as rawa pening lake in salatiga ,central
java,indonesia.
