Selasa, 23 Agustus 2011

Origin of Mount Tangkuban Perahu

In West Java, Bandung regency precisely in recreation, there is a very beautiful place that is Mount Tangkuban Perahu. Tangkuban Perahu means the boat overturned. Named because its shape resembles an inverted boat. It is said that according to folklore parahyangan mountain was indeed an upside-down boat. Here is his story.
Thousands of years ago, the land Parahyangan led by a king and a queen who just had a daughter. Daughter's name was Dayang Sumbi. She was very pretty and intelligent, unfortunately she is very spoiled. One day when she was weaving on the porch of the palace, Dayang Sumbi felt weak and dizzy.
He dropped the spun yarn on the floor many times. When pintalannya fall for the umpteenth time Dayang Sumbi became angry and swore, she would marry anyone who would get pintalannya it. Right after these words were uttered the oath, came a dog named Tumang magic and hand-spun it into the hands of Dayang Sumbi. So inevitably, in accordance with his oath, Dayang Sumbi should marry the dog.
Dayang Tumang Sumbi and live happily until they were blessed with a child who is a son of man but have magic powers like his father. This kid named Sangkuriang. In infancy, as Sangkuring then accompanied by a dog play called Tumang he knew only as a faithful dog, not as a father. Sangkuriang grow into a young handsome and gallant.
One day, Dayang Sumbi sent his son to go along with his dog to hunt deer for a feast. After some time searching fruitlessly, Sangkuriang feel desperate, but he did not want to disappoint his mother. So with very compelled him to take an arrow and aimed it at Tumang. Arriving at the house he handed to his mother Tumang meat. dayanng Sumbi who thinks the meat is venison, was happy over son's success.Soon after the party Dayang Sumbi remembered Tumang and asked her son where Tumang located. At first Sangkuriang fear, asceticism he finally told what had happened to her mother. Dayang Sumbi became very angry, the anger he hit Sangkuriang to pass out right in the forehead. For the offense Dayang Sumbi expelled from the kingdom by his father. Fortunately Sangkuriang regained consciousness but his mother blows leave scars that are very wide in keningnya.Setelah adult, Sangkuriang went wandering to know the state of the outside world.
A few years later, Sangkuriang met a very beautiful woman. He soon fell in love with the woman. The woman is her own mother, but they do not recognize each other. Sangkuriang proposed to her, Dayang Sumbi was received with pleasure. The day before the wedding day, while stroking his fiancee's hair, Dayang Sumbi see a wide scar on the forehead Sangkuriang, he finally realizes that she almost married his own son. Knowing that Dayang Sumbi trying to thwart her marriage. After thinking hard he finally decides to propose marriage requirement which can not be granted by Sangkuriang. Condition is: Sangkuriang have to create a dam that can cover the entire mountain, and make a boat to traverse the dam. All that must be completed before dawn.
Sangkuriang start working. Her love is so great at giving him a strange power Sangkuriang. Not to forget he also uses the strength he can from his father to summon the jinn and help. With mud and water from their land to stem the rivers and springs. Sometime before dawn, Sangkuriang cut down a large tree to make a boat. When Dayang Sumbi see that Sangkuriang almost completed its work, he prayed to the gods to thwart his son's work and accelerate the coming of morning.
Roosters crowed, the sun rises earlier than usual and Sangkuriang realized that he had been duped. With so angry he cursed Dayang Sumbi and kicking are almost finished homemade boat into the middle of the forest. The boat was there in the circumstances upside down, and formed Mount Tangkuban Perahu (boat menelungkub). Not far from where there are tree stumps of harvested Sangkuriang rest, we now know as Mount stumps. The dam created Sangkuriang caused the whole hill filled with water and forms a lake where Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi immersed himself and not heard from again until now.

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