cerita legenda tangkuban perahu dalam bahasa inggris

the legend of tangkuban perahu

Once, there was a kingdom in priangan land lived from a happy family. The were a father in from of dog. His name is tumang, a mother which was called is dayang sumbi, and a child which was called sangkuriang.

            One day, dayang sumbi asked her son to go hunting with his lovely dog. Tumang after hunting all day, sangkuriang began desparate and worried because he hunted no deen then he throught to shot his own dog. Then to took the dog liver and carried home.

            Soon dayang sumbi found out that it was not deer lever but tumang`s, his own dog. So, she was very angry and hit sangkuriang `s head scat then cast away from their home.

            Years go bye, sangkuriang had travel many place and finally carived at the village. He met a beautiful women and fell in love with her. When they were discussing their wedding plans. The women looked at the wound in sangkuriang`s head. It matched to her son`s wound who had left several year earlier. Soon she realized that she felt in love with her own son.

            She couldn`t marry him but how to say it. Then, she found the way. She needed a lake and a bout. Faor celebrating their wedding day. Sangkuriang had to make them in one right. The built a lake. With a down just moment away and the boat  was almost complete. Dayang sumbi had to stop it. Then, she lit up the easterm horizon with flashes of light. It made the cock crowed for a new away.

            Sangkuriang realized that he failed to finish the boat. Whit all his anger, he kicked the unfunished boat upside – down. The boat is now known as the mount takuban perahu in sundaness. Takuban mean boat. With the dam forn asunder, the water drained off the lake and made the lake a wide plain. It is now called bandung form the word “ bending “ which mean dam.

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Long time ago in West Java, there was a beautiful girl named Dayang Sumbi. She was also smart and clever. A prince from the heavenly kingdom of Kahyangan desire her as his wife. The prince got permission from his father to marry her on one condition, when they had a child, the prince would transform into a dog. The prince accepted the condition. They got married and lived happily in the woods until Dayang Sumbi gave birth to a baby boy named Sangkuriang. After the baby was born the prince then changed into a dog named Tumang.

Everyday Sangkuriang hunted animals and looked for fruits to eat. Tumang always accompanied him. Sangkuriang did not that Tumas was his wather. 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. Dayang Sumbi was sad and angry, 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 felt sad and also confused. Sangkuriang went away from their home and went on a journey. In the morning, Dayang Sumbi finally stopped crying and feel better, so she went to find Sangkuriang. But her son was no where to be found. Finally, she went home with nothing and exhausted. She fell asleep, and in her dream, she meets her husband, he said “My Wife, 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,”  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. The beautiful girl was Dayang Sumbi his own mother, but he didn’t realize it. 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.

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. 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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