A long time ago in West Java, lived a beautiful girl named Dayang Sumbi.

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. However, 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.

They got married and Dayang Sumbi gave birth to a baby boy named Sangkuriang. The prince then
changed into a dog named Tumang. He was very smart and handsome like his father. Sangkuriang
liked to hunt animals and looked for fruits to eat. One day, when he was hunting, Sangkuriang
accidently killed Tumang. He went home and told her mother about the dog.

Driven by sadness and anger, she grabbed a big spoon and hit Sangkuriang's head with it. Dayang
Sumbi was so sad and started to cry because she just lost her husband. Sangkuriang feels confused.
How can his mother love a dog more than him? Sangkuriang then decided to run away from their
home.

Many years later, Sangkuriang found a house of a beautiful woman. He didn't know that the woman
was his mother and fell in love with her. Sangkuriang forced her to marry him but Dayang Sumbi
could not accept it because she knew that the boy was her son.

She realizes that she needs to do something to prevent Sangkuriang from marrying her. Dayang
sumbi decided to ask him an impossible requirement to marry her in order for him to give up. She
asked Sangkuriang to build her a big boat within one night.

Without doubt, Sangkuriang accepted this condition and worked hard to fulfil the condition. 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 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 their red scarf, making it look as if dawn was
breaking. Deceived by false dawn, the cock crowned and farmers rose to the new day.

Sangkuriang immediately dropped their work. With all his anger, he kicked the unfinished boat. The
boat flew and landed on a vallet, The boat then became a mountain, called Tangkuban Perahu.