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Shvoong Home>Books>Reference>Short Stories of Mount Tangkuban Perahu Legend Review

Short Stories of Mount Tangkuban Perahu Legend

Book Review   by:nisaaulia     Original Author: Yudhistira Ikranegara
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The Great Sangkuriang
Galuga King is the King who loves to hunt. Usually he was accompanied by a dog palace incarnation of god. One day the king hunting into the woods with a group of bodyguards. But most of the day his always misses the mark. "What is this? Why my arrow was never hit the target?" The King asked in surprise to himself.
The King is very upset because the hunt. Once when he went into the bush where he urinated withheld earlier. King Galuga remaining urine and pooled in the hollow shell that was lying under a palm grove. In the forest there is a boar incarnation of the angel to be serving her vonishment in the forest is named Wayungyang.
At that time the hot dry season. After the king and his entourage left the place, came the boar Wayungyang who are thirsty. He licked the urine is in the basin king coconut shell. The will of the Almighty, the pregnant sows. Nine months later the pig gave birth to a baby girl. At that time King Galuga also happened to be hunting in the same place as nine months ago.
King Galuga was surprised to hear a baby crying in the wilderness. The longer the baby''s cries grew louder. King Galuga as drawn strength invisibility, a pair of legs walked towards the baby. Of course Wayungyang boar fear and immediately run away.
"Huh? A baby?" prabu exclaimed when I discovered there is the figure of a baby lying in the grass. King Galuga soon hold baby and Take her to the palace. The baby was named Dayang Sumbi.
Seventeen years went by Dayang Sumbi girl has grown into a very beautiful girl. Her beauty known to the other side of the country in many gentleman apply and try to win her coming without stopping but none of them receives, Dayang Sumbi still will not get married.
King''s wrath so alienated Dayang Sumbi in the midle of forest. Dayang Sumbi only accompanied by a pet dog incarnation of the god''s named Tumang. Their daily work just to weave cloth on a stick . one day her stick fall into the lake, because they feel lazy to pick them up he uttered the words "Those who get the stick when she was a girl I''ll make my sister and if he is a man I''ll make my husband" . Came the unexpected turns carrying sticks woven Tumang the Dayang Sumbi surprised. Dayang Sumbi want to deny his words, but as the incarnation of god Tumang she understands what is said Dayang Sumbi and asked him to occupy his words. Dayang Sumbi had married with a dog incarnation of god.
The days passed waiting Dayang Sumbi blessed with a son a handsome man and she named her son Sangkuriang . Little Sangkuriang already good at hunting and is always accompanied by the Tumang without realizing that it was his father''s Tumang. One day when Sangkuriang hunting but it always fails to dart Sangkuriang finally annoyed and aimed his arrow at the Tumang, the Tumang collapsed. By Sangkuriang Tumang in the slaughter and brought home the meat and heart to be cooked by his mother. After eating the meat out of the Dayang Sumbi find Tumang but Sangkuriang frank that he ate meat that was the Tumang. Dayang Sumbi Sangkuriang stunned and angry he struck his son with a log and evict her son. Sangkuriang hurt and the wound leave a big imprint until he was a big.
Sangkuriang grown into a handsome and dashing young man and during his many wanderings were studied to make it a powerful young man.
One time Sangkuriang wander and meet a girl and then made her lover. When chatting accidentally saw her Sangkuriang head injuries and he was very surprised. The girls is Dayang Sumbi who apparently ageless as the incarnation of an angel. Dayang Sumbi recognize Sangkuriang as his son from the wound. Sangkuriang want to marry Dayang Sumbi but in her wardly she may not marry her son.to avoid Sangkuriang Dayang Sumbi stipulating the ladies want to made lake and a boat in one night if Sangkuriang could then he would accept the proposal Sangkuriang. With his power sangkuriang have agreed, but another trick by Dayang Sumbi in the middle of the night he rang the mortar so that the cock crowed and sangkuriang stopped work, he thinking it was morning. When knowing deception Dayang Sumbi Sangkuriang Kick the Wrath made so that the boat upside down and change into a mountain called Mount Tangkuban Perahu. Sangkuriang pursuing Dayang Sumbi but she lost some where.
The form of The Mountain Called Tangkuban Perahu is still can be seen. The Mountain Tangkuban perahu are in Bandung west Java Indonesia so if you came to Indonesia don''t forget to visit
Published: May 30, 2012   
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