In West Java, Bandung regency precisely in recreation, there is a very beautiful place is Mount Tangkuban Perahu. Tangkuban Perahu means an overturned boat. Named because its shape it resembles an overturned boat. It is said that according to folklore parahyangan mountain is indeed an overturned boat. Here is his story.
Thousands of years ago, the land ruled by a king Parahyangan and a queen who only has one daughter. Daughter's name was Dayang Sumbi. She was very beautiful 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 to the floor of the yarn spun many times. We fell for the umpteenth time pintalannya 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 ball of twine and hand it into the hands of Dayang Sumbi. So inevitably, in accordance with his oath, Dayang Sumbi should marry the dog.
Dayang Tumang Sumbi and lived happily until they were blessed with a child who is a son of man but has the magical power like his father. This kid named Sangkuriang. In this period of growth, then accompanied Sangkuring a play by a dog named Tumang he knew only as a faithful dog, not as a father. Sangkuriang grown into a young, handsome and gallant.
On one day, Dayang Sumbi asked her child to go with their dogs to hunt deer for a feast. After a long search without success, Sangkuriang feel desperate, but he did not want to disappoint her mother. So with a very forced him to take an arrow and pointed it at Tumang. Arriving home he handed his mother Tumang meat. dayanng Sumbi who thinks meat is deer meat, was delighted over 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 afraid, how he finally told what had happened to her mother. Dayang Sumbi became very angry, the anger he hit Sangkuriang to faint right on the forehead. Dayang Sumbi for his actions that were expelled from the kingdom by his father. Fortunately Sangkuriang regained consciousness but blows her 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. Soon she fell in love with the woman. She is her own mother, but they do not recognize each other. Sangkuriang propose, Dayang Sumbi even accept it gladly. A 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 that trying to thwart the marriage Sumbi Dayang. 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 could cover the entire hill and make a boat to along dam. All that must be completed before dawn.
Sangkuriang start working. Her love is so great at giving Sangkuriang a strange power. Do not forget he also used the power that he could from his father to summon genies and help. With their land to stem the mud and water from rivers and springs. Shortly before dawn, cut down a large tree Sangkuriang to make a boat. When Dayang Sumbi see that Sangkuriang almost completed his job, he prayed to the gods to thwart his son's work 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 kicked homemade boat that almost gets to the middle of the forest. The boat was upside-down there, and formed the Mount Tangkuban Boat (boat menelungkub). Not far from where there is a residual stump of the felled Sangkuriang, we now know as Mount stumps. Dams are made Sangkuriang caused the whole hill filled with water and forms a lake where Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi drown himself and not heard from again until now.
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