Long time ago in West Java,
lived a beautiful girl named Dayang Sumbi. She was also smart and clever. Her
beauty and intelligence made a prince from the heavenly kingdom of Kahyangan
desire her as his wife. The prince asked permission from his father to marry
Dayang Sumbi. People from Kahyangan could never live side by side with humans,
but his father approved on one condition, when they had a child, the prince
would transform into a dog. The prince accepted the condition.
They get married and lived
happily in the woods until Dayang Sumbi gave birth to a baby boy. The prince
then changed into a dog named Tumang. Their son is named Sangkuriang. He was
very smart and handsome like his father. Everyday, he hunted animals and looked
for fruits to eat. One day, when he was hunting, Sangkuriang accidentally
killed Tumang. His arrow missed the deer he was targeting and hit Tumang
instead. He went home and tells her mother about the dog. “What?” Dayang Sumbi
was appalled. Driven by sadness and anger, she grabbed a weaving tool and hit
Sangkuriang’s head with it. Dayang Sumbi was so sad; she didn’t pay any
attention to Sangkuriang and started to cry.
Sangkuriang feel sad and also
confused. How can his mother love a dog more than him? Sangkuriang then decided
to go away from their home and went on a journey. In the morning, Dayang Sumbi
finally stopped crying. She started to feel better, so she went to find
Sangkuriang. But her son was no where to be found. She looked everywhere but
still couldn’t find him. Finally, she went home with nothing. She was
exhausted. She fell asleep, and in her dream, she meets her husband. “Dayang
Sumbi, don’t be sad. Go look for my body in the woods and get the heart. Soak
it with water, and use the water to bathe, and you will look young forever,”
said the prince in her dream. After bathing with the water used to soak the
dog’s heart, Dayang Sumbi looked more beautiful and even younger.
And time passed by. Sangkuriang
on his journey stopped at a village and met and fell in love with a beautiful
girl.He didn’t realize that the village was his homeland and the beautiful girl
was his own mother, Dayang Sumbi. Their love grew naturally and he asked the
girl to marry him. One day, Sangkuriang was going on a hunt. He asked Dayang
Sumbi to fix the turban on his head. Dayang Sumbi was startled when she saw a
scar on his head at the same place where she, years ago, hit Sangkuriang on the
head.
After the young man left,
Dayang Sumbi prayed for guidance. After praying, she became convinced that the
young man was indeed her missing son. She realized that she had to do something
to prevent Sangkuriang from marrying her. But she did not wish to disappoint
him by cancelling the wedding. So, although she agreed to marry Sangkuriang,
she would do so only on the condition that he provides her with a lake and
built a beautiful boat, all in one night.
Sangkuriang accepted this
condition without a doubt. He had spent his youth studying magical arts. After
the sun went down, Sangkuriang went to the hill. Then he called a group of
genie to build a dam around Citarum River. Then, he commands the genies to cut
down trees and build a boat. A few moments before dawn, Sangkuriang and his
genie servants almost finished the boat.
Dayang Sumbi, who had been
spying on him, realised that Sangkuriang would fulfill the condition she had
set. Dayang Sumbi immediately woke all the women in the village and asked them
to wave a long red scarf. All the women in the village were waving red scarf,
making it look as if dawn was breaking. Deceived by false dawn, the cock crowed
and farmers rose for the new day.
Sangkuriang’s genie servants
immediately dropped their work and ran for cover from the sun, which they
feared. Sangkuriang grew furious. With all his anger, he kicked the unfinished
boat. The boat flew and landed on a valley. The boat then became a mountain,
called Mount Tangkuban Perahu (Tangkuban means upturned or upside down, and
Perahu means boat). With his power, he destroyed the dam. The water drained
from the lake becoming a wide plain and nowadays became a city called Bandung
(from the word Bendung, which means Dam).
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