The Legend of Tangkuban Perahu
Parahyangan or the
Abode of The Gods is the name of districts surrounded by the green trees and
the mountainous picturesque, clean air and fresh. Named Parahyangan by the
“Dewa-Gods ” legend mission from abode
of the Gods before Dayang Sumbi and Sangkuriang legend happen.
Dayang Sumbi, a
beautiful princes, responded the love of Sangkuriang, a handsome and sacred
young man. One day when they were making love, Dayang Sumbi was badly startled
to see a convinced mark in Sangkuriang’s body which indicated him that he was
her own son who had long been separated from her for a long time. Dayang Sumbi
let him knew the matter. But Sangkuriang who had fallen deeply in love did not
mind the matter, he even regarded her only made a trumpet-up charge. At last
Dayang Sumbi could not avoid Sangkuriang’s proposal to marry her, but on
condition that he had to build a large dam and a giant boat, and they had to be
completed in one night before the cocks crow. When he was unable to fulfill the
agreement, the marriage nullified.
Sangkuriang
promised her to fulfill the agreement for his desire to marry her. With his
magical power and helped by supernatural creatures, Sangkuriang started to work
hard to build the dam and the boat. It
still took a long time before the cocks crow, but Sangkuriang nearly completed
the work. Dayang Sumbi was in a dizzy panic, because her plan to put forward
the terms was to foil him to marry her, who was his own mother.
After consulting
her fellow villagers, Dayang Sumbi found a way. They founded rice mortars in a
noisy group while they set fire to tall coarse grass whose fire made the sky
redden. Sound of the pounding rice mortars and the reddish sky deceived the
cocks, they supposed morning was falling. Then they crowed continuously called
back and forth.Sangkuriang was badly started, he felt it was evident that his
work failed, because morning was falling marked by the cocks crowed. His anger
culminated extraordinarily. With all his strengths hi kicked the nearly
completed boat tossed skyward, than it fell to the earth in upside down
position. Then the upside down boat transformed into a mountain in the shape of
upside down the boat. Such is the most popular sundanese society’s legend and
it is passed on from one generation to the other.Abode of The Gods is the place
of Dayang Sumbi’s Husben and Sangkuriang’s father. Do you believe it ?
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