Legend of Tangkuban  parahu

                      Once upon a time in west Java,  Indonesia lived a wise king who had a

 beautiful daughter.  Her name was Dayang Sumbi.  She liked weaving very much.

Once she was weaving a cloth when one of her tool fell to the ground.  She was

Very tired at the time so she was to lazy to take it.  Then she just shouted out

Loud,  “Anybody there? Bring me my tool.  I will give you a special present.  If you are female,  I will consider you as my sister.  If you are male,  I will marry you.’

                    Suddenly a male dog,  its name was Tumang,  came.  He brought her falling tool.  Dayang Sumbing was very surprised.  She regretted ger words but she could not deny it.  So she had to marry Tumang and leave her father.  Then they lived in a smatl village.  Several months later they had a son.  His name was Sangkuriang.  He was a hansome  and healthy boy.

                   Sangkuriang liked hunting very much.  He often went hunting to the wood using his arrow.  Every time he went hunting Tumang was always with him.  In the past there were many deer in java so Sangkuriang often hunted the deer.

                  One day Dayang Sumbi wanted to have deer’s heart so she asked Sangkuriang to hunt for a deer.  Then Sangkuriang went to the wood with his arrow and his faithful dog Tumang.  After several days in the wood Sangkuriang  could not find any deer.  They were all disappeared.  Sangkuriang was exhausted and desperate.  He did not want to disappoint her mother so he killed tumang.  He did not know that tumang was his father.  At home he gave Tumangs’s s heart to her mother.

                  But Dayang Sumbi knew that it was tumbangs heart.  She was so angry that she could not control her emotion.  She hit Sangkuriang at his head.  Sangkuriang was wounded.  There was a scar in his head.  She also repelled her son.  Sangkuriang left her mother in sadness.

                  Many years passed and sangkuriang became a strong young man.  He wandered everywhere.  One day he arrived at his own village but he did not realized it.  There he met Dayang Sumbi.  At the time Dayang Sumbi was given an eternal beauty by god so she stayed young forever.  Both of them did not know each other.  So they fell in love and then they decided to marry. 

                  But then Dayang Sumbi recognized a scar on his Sangkuriang’s head.  She knew that Sangkuriang was his son.  It are impossible for them to marry.  She told him but he did not believe her.  He wished that they marry soon.  So Dayang Sumbi gave a very difficult condition.  She wanted Sangkuriang to build a lake and a boat in one night! She said she needed that for honeymoon.  Sangkuriang agreed.  With the help of genie and spitits Sangkuriang tried to build them.  By midnight he had finished the lake by buildi a dam in cintarum river.