Sangkuriang

once upon a times, there lived a very beautiful princess named Dayang Sumbi.
Her beauty is so famous that many nobles want to marry her. However, all of
the dating applications were rejected by him, making the rejected men fight
with each other.

Seeing this, his heart was very sad. He begged his father, King Sumbing
Perbangkara, to allow him to seclude himself. Dayang Sumbi was estranged on a
hill accompanied by a dog named Tumang.

During the exile, Dayang Sumbi spent a lot of time with weaving. One time, the
weaving yarn fell, but he was very lazy to take it. He also said that if there was
a man who took his thread, he would marry her, whereas if a woman would make
her, she would make her brother.

How shocked Dayang Sumbi was when she discovered that the one who took the
thread was Si Tumang the dog. However, he still kept his promise. Not
unexpectedly, Tumang is the incarnation of a god who will change into a
handsome man during the full moon.

After they were married, a year later a boy was born named Sangkuriang. The
child grew up to be an intelligent and archery child.

One day, Dayang Sumbi told her son Sangkuriang to hunt deer in the forest
because he wanted to eat deer liver. However, Sangkuriang had been hunting all
day but he could not get a single game.
Because of this, he became so upset with Tumang. Then he removed the dog and
took his heart to give it to the mother. Knowing this, Dayang Sumbi was very
angry with his son who had killed his own father. Then he hit Sangkuriang with a
cockpit to make an impression and drive him away. After a few years later,
Dayang Sumbi met a young man named Jaka. The young man was fascinated by
the beauty that Dayang Sumbi had and wanted to make him a wife.

But Dayang Sumbi finally realized that Jaka was his son whom he had driven out
after knowing the scar on his head. But when told, Sangkuriang did not believe
it. How could her mother be young? Apparently, the cause of Dayang Sumbi was
young because she had eaten Tumang’s heart.

However, Sangkuriang remained stubborn, finally Dayang Sumbi proposed a

condition to make a boat and a lake that must be completed before sunrise.

When midnight Dayang Sumbi accidentally woke up, then he saw Sangkuriang’s
work and he was very surprised because it turned out that Sangkuriang was very
powerful and almost finished his work.

Dayang Sumbi was very agitated and then asked for help from residents to
pound rice. Chicken crows and makes the spirits who help Sangkuriang leave
because he thinks it’s already dawn.

Sangkuriang knows Dayang Sumbi’s sense. He was so angry that he broke the
dam and kicked the boat he had made. Then that boat is known as Tangkuban
Perahu Mountain.