The Legend of "SANGKURIANG"

Versi ENGLISH
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 too lazy to take it. Then she
just shouted out loud.
She shouted ‘Anybody there? Bring me my tool. I will give you
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 the
falling tool. Dayang Sumbi was very surprised. She regretted her words but
she could not deny it. So she had to marry Tumang and leave her
father. Then they lived in a small village. Several months later they had a
son. His name was Sangkuriang. He was a handsome and healthy boy.
Sangkuriang liked hunting very much. He often went hunting to the
forest using his arrow. When he went hunting Tumang always with him. In
the past there were many deer in Java so Sangkuriang often hunted for 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 forest with
his arrow and his faithful dog Tumang. But 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 Tumang’s heart to her mother.
But Dayang Sumbi knew that it was Tumang’s 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 was impossible for them to
marry. She told sangkuriang but sangkuriang 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 spirits Sangkuriang
tried to build them. By midnight he had finished the lake by building a dam
in Citarum river. Then he started building the boat. It was almost dawn
when he nearly finished it. Meanwhile Dayang Sumbi kept watching on
them. She was very worried when she knew this. So she made lights in the
east. Then the spirits thought that it was already dawn. It was time for them
to leave. They left Sangkuriang alone. Without their help sangkuriang could
not finish the boat.
Sangkuriang was very angry. He kicked the boat. Then the boat
turned out to be Mount Tangkuban Perahu. It means boat upside
down. From a distant it looks like a boat upside down.
Versi INDONESIA
Pada suatu saat di Jawa Barat, Indonesia hidup seorang raja yang
bijaksana yang memiliki seorang putri cantik. Namanya adalah Dayang
Sumbi. Dia sangat suka menenun. ketika dia menenun kain salah satu alatnya
jatuh ke tanah. Dia sangat lelah pada waktu itu sehingga dia terlalu malas
untuk mengambilnya. Lalu dia hanya berteriak keras-keras.
Dia berteriak "Siapa di sana? Ambilkan alat saya. Saya akan
memberikan hadiah istimewa. Jika Anda perempuan, saya akan menganggap
Anda sebagai adikku. Jika Anda laki-laki, aku akan menikah denganmu '
Tiba-tiba seekor anjing jantan, namanya Tumang, datang. Dia
membawa alat yang jatuh. Dayang Sumbi sangat terkejut. Dia menyesali
kata-katanya, tapi dia tidak bisa menyangkalnya. Jadi dia harus menikahi
Tumang dan meninggalkan ayahnya. Kemudian mereka tinggal di sebuah
desa kecil. Beberapa bulan kemudian mereka memiliki seorang putra.
Namanya Sangkuriang. Dia adalah seorang anak laki-laki tampan dan sehat.
Sangkuriang sangat menyukai berburu. Dia sering pergi berburu ke
hutan menggunakan panahnya. Ketika ia pergi berburu Tumang selalu
bersamanya. Pada saat itu ada banyak rusa di Jawa sehingga Sangkuriang
sering berburu rusa.
Suatu hari Dayang Sumbi ingin memiliki jantung rusa sehingga ia
meminta Sangkuriang untuk berburu rusa. Kemudian Sangkuriang pergi ke
hutan dengan panah dan Tumang anjing yang setia. Tapi setelah beberapa
hari di hutan Sangkuriang tidak bisa menemukan rusa apapun. Mereka
semua menghilang. Sangkuriang lelah dan putus asa. Dia tidak ingin
mengecewakan ibunya sehingga ia bunuh Tumang. Dia tidak tahu bahwa
Tumang adalah ayahnya. Di rumah dia memberikan hatinya Tumang untuk
ibunya.
Tapi Dayang Sumbi tahu bahwa itu adalah hati Tumang itu. Dia begitu
marah karena dia tidak bisa mengendalikan emosinya. Dia memukul
Sangkuriang di kepalanya. Sangkuriang terluka. Ada bekas luka di
kepalanya. Dia juga mengusir anaknya. Sangkuriang meninggalkan ibunya
dalam kesedihan.
Bertahun-tahun berlalu dan Sangkuriang menjadi seorang pemuda
yang kuat. Dia berjalan di mana-mana. Suatu hari ia tiba di desa sendiri,
tetapi dia tidak menyadari hal itu. Di sana ia bertemu Dayang Sumbi. Pada
saat Dayang Sumbi diberi keindahan abadi oleh Allah sehingga dia muda
selamanya. Keduanya tidak saling mengenal. Jadi mereka jatuh cinta dan
kemudian mereka memutuskan untuk menikah.
Tapi kemudian Dayang Sumbi mengakui bekas luka di kepala
Sangkuriang . Dia tahu bahwa Sangkuriang adalah anaknya. Itu tidak
mungkin bagi mereka untuk menikah. dia mengatakan sangkuriang tapi
sangkuriang tidak percaya padanya. sangkuriang berharap bahwa mereka
menikah segera. Jadi Dayang Sumbi memberikan kondisi yang sangat sulit.
Dia ingin Sangkuriang untuk membangun sebuah danau dan perahu dalam
satu malam! Dia bilang dia membutuhkan itu untuk bulan madu.
Sangkuriang setuju. Dengan bantuan jin dan roh Sangkuriang mencoba
untuk membangunnya. Pada tengah malam ia selesaikan danau dengan
membangun bendungan di Sungai Citarum. Lalu ia mulai membangun
perahu. Hampir terbit fajar ketika ia hampir selesaikannya. Sementara itu
Dayang Sumbi terus melihatnnya. Dia sangat khawatir ketika dia tahu ini.
Jadi dia membuat lampu di timur. Kemudian roh berpikir bahwa itu sudah
fajar. Sudah waktunya bagi mereka untuk pergi. Mereka meninggalkan
Sangkuriang sendiri. Tanpa bantuan mereka sangkuriang tidak bisa
menyelesaikan perahu.

Sangkuriang sangat marah. Dia menendang perahu. Kemudian perahu

ternyata Gunung Tangkuban Perahu. Ini berarti perahu terbalik. Dari jauh
terlihat seperti perahu terbalik.
 SANGKURIANG
Once upon a time in West Java, Indonesia, lived a princess named Dayang
Sumbi. She was beautiful and kind-hearted. Her hobby was weaving cloth. But
sometimes she could be very lazy. One day her weaving tool fell, but she was too
lazy to get it herself. She shouted out, “Can anybody help me get my tool? If you
are a female, I will take you as my sister. If you are a
male, I will marry you!”
A male creature came, but it was a dog. His name was Tumang. He happily
brought the tool to her. Dayang Sumbi was very surprised, but she kept her
promise. She married the dog. Tumang was actually a man who had been cursed
by a witch to become a dog. But at certain times Tumang could turn back to be a
normal man. Their only son, Sangkuriang, was soon born, and he grew up to be a
handsome and healthy boy. He always played with his very loyal dog, Tumang. He
did not know that he was actually his father, because
Dayang Sumbi hid the secret from him. Sangkuriang liked to hunt in the
woods, of course with Tumang.
One day Dayang Sumbi asked him to bring home a deer’s heart. But, after
hunting for several days, he could not find any deer in the woods. He did not want
to disappoint his mother and was thinking hard how to bring home a deer’s heart.
Suddenly, he had a very bad idea. He killed Tumang! Then, he brought his heart
home and gave it to Dayang Sumbi.
Sangkuring could not cheat her. She knew it was Tumang’s heart. So, she
got very angry and hit Sangkuriang’s forehead with a piece of wood and told him
to leave. With a bad wound on his forehead, Sangkuriang left the village.
Many years later, Sangkuriang grew up to be a powerful man. One day he
went back to his village. He met a beautiful young woman there, and he fell in love
with her at the first sight. It was Dayang Sumbi! She never got older because she
had been granted eternal youth by the gods. Sangkuriang did not know that she was
his mother, so he came to her and proposed to
marry her.
When he walked closer to her, Dayang Sumbi got very surprised. She saw
the scar in Sangkuriang’s forehead, and soon she knew that he was her son, who
left her a long time ago. She told him the truth and tried hard to explain it to him,
but he did not believe her. She did not
want to break his heart, so she accepted his proposal but gave him an impossible
thing to do. She wanted him to build a lake and a boat in just one night!
Sangkuriang agreed, because he knew that he could make it with the help of
his genies. By midnight he finished the lake and then started making the boat.
Dayang Sumbi was thinking hard to find a way to fail him. Before dawn, she asked
the people in the village to
burn the woods in the East, and the light made all the cocks crow. Thinking that
the night would be over soon, the genies ran fast and left Sangkuriang before the
boat
was finished. Sangkuriang realized that Dayang Sumbi had cheated him. He got
very angry and he kicked the boat upside down. It gradually became a mountain
and it is now known as Mt. Tangkuban Perahu.