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Kamis, 31 Maret 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 a boat that overturned. Named because its shape is certainly like an inverted boat. It is said that according to folklore parahyangan mountain is indeed an inverted boat. Here is his story.

Thousands of years ago, the land Parahyangan led by a king and a queen who just had a daughter. Prince was named Dayang Sumbi. She's very pretty and smart, unfortunately he was very spoiled. On a 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 willy-nilly, in accordance with his oath, Dayang Sumbi should marry the dog.

Dayang Tumang Sumbi and happy lives until they were blessed with a child who is a son of man but has a magic power like his father. This kid named Sangkuriang. In times of growth, then accompanied Sangkuring a play by a dog named Tumang that he knew only as a faithful dog, not as a father. Sangkuriang grew into a young handsome and gallant.

On a day Dayang Sumbi sent his son to go with his dog to hunt deer for a feast. After a long search with no results, Sangkuriang feel desperate, but he did not want to disappoint her mother. So with a very forced him to take a bow and pointed it at Tumang. Arriving at the house he handed to his mother Tumang meat. dayanng Sumbi who thinks the meat is venison, feel happy for the success of their children.
Soon after the party was over Dayang Sumbi Tumang remembered and asked his son where Tumang located. At first Sangkuriang feel scared, tapa 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 were expelled from the kingdom by his father. Fortunately Sangkuriang regained consciousness but blow his mother left a very wide scars in adult keningnya.Setelah, Sangkuriang went wandering to know the state of the outside world.

Several years later, Sangkuriang met a very beautiful woman. He soon fell in love with the woman. She is her own mother, but they do not recognize each other. Sangkuriang proposed, Dayang Sumbi was received with pleasure. The day before the wedding day, when she was 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 it 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 must create a dam that can cover the entire mountain, and make a boat to along the dam. All that must be completed before dawn.

Sangkuriang start working. Her love is so great at Sangkuriang gave him a strange power. Do not forget he also uses the strength he can from his father to summon the jinn and help him. With mud and water from their land to stem the rivers and springs. Sometime before dawn, Sangkuriang cutting a large tree to make a boat. When Dayang Sumbi see that Sangkuriang nearly completed his work, he prayed to the gods to thwart the work of his son and accelerate the arrival of morning.

Rooster crowed, the sun rises more quickly than usual and Sangkuriang realized that he had been deceived. With so angry he cursed Dayang Sumbi and kicking homemade boat that almost gets to the middle of the forest. The boat was there in the circumstances upside down, and formed the Mount Tangkuban Perahu (boat menelungkub). Not far from where there is a residual stump of the felled Sangkuriang, we now know as the Mount Tunggul. Dams are made Sangkuriang caused the whole hill filled with water and formed a lake where Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi drown herself and reportedly was not heard again until now.


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