Tangkuban Perahu

History of Mountain " Tangkuban Perahu "

 

 

 

Long time ago in west java lived a woman, named a Dayang Sumbi. She lived alone in forest. Named Dayang Sumbi. She lived alone in a forest. One day Dayang Sumbi was quilting when suddenly , her quit fell off from her house. Then  she prayed Gods. " if a man picks up my quilt, he will be my husband. if a woman she will be my husband." Then  a male dog picks it up. For keeping her words, Dayang Sumbi married the

Dog and called him Tumang. Dayang Sumbi gave birth to a baby, named him sangkuriang, but never told him who his father was.

One day, Sangkuriang was hunting with Tumang in the forest  and he found nothing. He blamed Tumang for the failure and killed him. When Dayang Sumbi knew that, she hit Sangkuriang's head with a big spoon and asked him to go.

Many year later,  the wondering Sangkuriang found a house forest, and an old beautiful found woman  was the house in the house. The woman, Dayang Sumbi, recognized the adventure as Sangkuriang. Sangkuriang forced her to marry  him and Dayang Sumbi asked him to make vast boat in one night. In the night, Sangkuriang called his friends, ghosts and forest fairies, to help him. Dayang Sumbi feared the boat could be finished on time, so she asked some women nearby to  help her. The women hit the grains with grain punchers to make noises wich disturbed the ghosts and the fairies ran away before completing the boat upside down, and it turned into a mountain called "Tangkuban Perahu. it means the downside boat, wich stood in the north of Bandung.

Source: http://www.shvoong.com/humanities/history/2179931-history-mountain-tangkuban-perahu/#ixzz2Ll2RoBoa