Aji Saka dan Alfabet Jawa

A long long time ago in the island of Java there was a kingdom of
Medang Kamulan.   The land of Java was very fertile and productive.  The
land of Java was also very rich with gold and many kinds of mineral.
But if you think that the Javanese people were prosperous you are wrong.  

At the time Java was ruled by a monster.  His name was King Dewata
Cengkar.  He was a very cruel king.  He ordered his people to pay tax on
everything they had.
Because it the king was very very rich while his people were very poor.

Besides that the king also like to eat the flesh of human being!
He ordered every chief of a district to sacrifice young and healthy people for
the king to consume.  Consequently the people of Java diminished.  The
people were restless but they did not dare to rebel because the king was
very cruel and his army was very strong.

            Until one day someone named Aji Saka came to Java.  He had two
guards.  Their name were Dora and Sembada.  Before coming to Java they
landed in a small island in the north of Java, called Pulau Majeti.  After
several days there Aji Saka decided to go to Java.  Aji Saka left his weapon,
a powerful traditional dagger called Kris there.   He told Dora to stay in the
island of Majeti to guard his Kris.  And he told Dora not to give it to any
body else.  After that he went to Java with Sembada.

Then he settled in Java as a merchant.  The people of Java told him about
his sorrow because of Dewata Cengkar’s cruelty and injustice rule.   Aji Saka
was very concerned to the sorrow of Javanese people.  He told the chief of
the district where he settled to send him as sacrifice when the king wanted
to eat people.  So the chief send him to king Dewata Cengkar.

            As his turn came to became sacrifice, Aji Saka asked to say his last
words to the king.  The king granted him opportunity to speak.

‘O, great king of Java.  The father of development of Java.  The one who
make people live prosperous life.  The richest man in the world.  I am
honored to demand your Majesty one last wish before I die’

‘Tell me what  you want’

“Your Majesty the great king of Java, I just want a piece of land, the same
size as my turban’

‘I grant it.  Just spread your turban’

            Then Aji Saka put off his turban and put it on the ground.  Aji Saka
hold one side of it and asked the king to hold the other side.  Amazingly it
became larger so Dewata Cengkar had to step back.  And everytime it
became larger and larger so Dewata Cengkar finally stood at a beach.   Aji
Saka kincked him to the sea and and he died.  The Javanese people were
very happy to hear the cruel king had died.  They were very thankful to Aji
Saka and elected him as the new king of Java.

Aji Saka remembered that one of his guard, Dora was still in the island of
Majeti.  As he was a king, it was impossible for him to go there.   So he told
Sembada to go there and bring his kris back.  So Sembada went to Majeti
island.  As he got there he told Dora that Aji Saka asked him to take the
kris.

‘His Majesty King Aji Saka ordered me to take the kris to Java’

‘Maybe you make mistake.  Aji Saka is our superiot but he is not a king. 
And he told me not to give his kris to any boldy else.  It is my duty to guard
it here until he came back and take it’

‘It is my duty to take the  kris’.

‘It is my duty to guard it’

they were figth finally both of them dead.

Aji Saka was shocked to hear the news that they both died.  Since that day
he created an alphabet, a Javanese alphabeth based on their story.

Hono = there is / there are in English, coroko = envoy

Do to so wolo = bring a letter / matter

Po do jo yo nyo = they are equally powerful

Mogo botongo = they are killed.