In West Java, Bandung regency, exactly, there is a place that is very beautiful recreation of Tangkuban Perahu. Tangkuban Perahu means boat overturned. Named because its shape resembles a boat was overturned. It is said that according to folklore was Parahyangan mountain is an upside-down boat. Here is his story.
Thousands and thousands of years ago, Parahyangan land ruled by a king and a queen who just had a daughter. Daughter's name was Dayang Sumbi. She was very beautiful and smart, unfortunately she is very spoiled. On a day when he was weaving on the porch of the palace, Dayang Sumbi felt weak and dizzy. He dropped the shuttle thread to the floor several times.When pintalannya fell 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 powerful dog named Tumang and handed it to the hand shuttle Dayang Sumbi. So willy-nilly, in accordance with the 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. Son is named Sangkuriang. In times of growth, and accompanied Sangkuring a play by a dog named Tumang that he knew only as a faithful dog, not as a father. Sangkuriang grown into a handsome young man and gallant.
On a day Dayang Sumbi sent his son to go with the dog to hunt deer for the purposes of a party. After a long search with no results, Sangkuriang feeling desperate, but he did not want to disappoint her mother. So with a very forced 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 meat is deer meat, was excited about the success of his son.
Soon after the party was over Dayang Sumbi Tumang remembered and asked her son where Tumang be. At first Sangkuriang afraid, how he finally told what had happened to her mother.Dayang Sumbi became very angry, the anger he hit right Sangkuriang unconscious in his forehead. Her behavior was Dayang Sumbi driven out of the kingdom by his father. Fortunately Sangkuriang regained consciousness but her mother hit a scar that is very wide in adult keningnya.Setelah, Sangkuriang went wandering to find out about the outside world.
A few years later, Sangkuriang met a very beautiful woman. Soon she fell in love with the woman. The woman is his mother, but they do not recognize each other. Sangkuriang proposed, Dayang Sumbi accepted with pleasure. The day before the wedding day, when her fiance was stroking her hair, Dayang Sumbi see a wide scar on his forehead Sangkuriang, he finally realized that she almost married his own son. Knowing that trying to thwart Dayang Sumbi marriage. After thinking hard he finally decided to file the marriage requirement which can not be granted by Sangkuriang. Condition is: Sangkuriang must create a dam that could cover the entire hill and make a boat to the dam down. All that must be completed before dawn.
Sangkuriang start working. Her love is so great at Sangkuriang gave a strange power. Do not forget he also uses the power he got from his father to summon the jinn and help. With the mud and soil they hold back water from rivers and springs. Sometime before dawn, Sangkuriang large tree cut down to make a boat. When Dayang Sumbi see that Sangkuriang almost completed his work, he prayed to the gods to thwart her work and accelerate the arrival of the morning.
Rooster crowed, the sun rises more quickly than usual and Sangkuriang realized that he had been duped. With so angry he cursed Dayang Sumbi and kicked the boat that nearly made so into the woods. The boat was upside down there, and form Tangkuban Perahu (boat menelungkub). Not far from where there is a tree stump left over from felling Sangkuriang, we now know as Mount Tunggul. The dam that created Sangkuriang caused the whole hill was filled with water and formed a lake where Dayang Sumbi Sangkuriang and immersed himself and not heard from again until now.
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