TANGKUBAN PERAHU

Once upon a time, there are a god and goddess which were detained for breaking the rules.
They both then were sentenced to live the rest of their life in the world while doing good
deeds. During their time on earth the God was turned into a dog named Tumang and the the
Goddess turned into a swine named Wayung Hyang.

Tumang was owned by a king named Sumbing Prabangkara and live in the palace. Both
become good friend, and stick like a glue. One day, King Sumbing decided to go for hunt to
the nearest forest. Apparently, it’s the forest where Wayung Hyang lives.

At the forest, the king needed to do his thing, and apparently his pee was cupped in a coconut
shell. Little did they know, Wayung Hyang who felt thirsty and found the ‘water’ in coconut
shell drank it and she became pregnant. 9 month after the pregnancy, right after Wayung
Hyang gave birth, the king back to hunt on the same forest.

He heard a baby crying, looking for it, and found a lovely baby girl. He took the baby to the
palace withourt knowing that it was his daughter and named her Dayang Sumbi.

Long story short, Dayang Sumbi grew up to be a loveliest girl in the country. Lots of prince
quarreled and fought over her. Dayang Sumbi who felt uncomfortable chose to remain silent
and move to the middle of nowhere where no one knows her. There she lives only with
Tumang, her bestfriend.

She spend her live weaving clothes with traditional loom she has. One day the loom was
fallen to the ground and she was too lazy to pick it up. She swore to herself anyone who
brought her the loom if she’s a girl then she will consider her as her sister, and if he was a
man then she would marry him.

Suddenly, Tumang appeared and bring her the loom. As her promised, she married Tumang.
As his husband Tumang revealed himself and turn himself to be a lovely God only when the
full moon comes. Daang Sumbi then became pregnant in no time. The king was so angry to
hear about this. He casted her out of his family name and told her to live far away from the
palace.

Long story short, Dayang Sumbi has a prettiest baby boy you could ever see. She named him
Sangkuriang. He grew up to be a descent strong pretty guy who loves her mother without
knowing that the dog who happened to stay with him all along was his father.

One day, Dayang Sumbi sent him to go for hunt. She told her son that she wanted a deer heart
for dinner. Sangkuriang took Tumang to go with him. Yet, he couldn’t found any deer after
three days of hunting. He was too afraid of going home with an empty hand.

Suddenly, he saw a pig and asked Tumang to go for it. Tumang remained silence since he
knew it was Wayung Hyang, her granny. Sangkuriang was so upset and point her bow and
arrow to Tumang. Accidentally he got shot and died.

Tumang asked him to get his heart to be given to his mother. This young guy cried with tears
for he couldn't bear the sadness of losing his best friend. He took Tumang's heart as he wish
and came home to her mom.
Dayang Sumbi was so happy to have her son back. Yet, she was curious why didn’t Tumang
came along. She asked Sangkuriang where Tumang was. But Sangkuriang kept silent and
didn’t tell the truth. Dayang Sumbi who have a good instinct found out that it was Tumang’s
heart. She hit Sangkuriang on his head and then casted him out.

Time flew by, Sangkuriang has grown up to be a good looking man with well-built body.
Meanwhile Dayang Sumbi who was a descendant of Goddess was given an eternal beauty
and stays forever young. Sangkuriang who wandered anywhere, one day reached his house
yet he couldn’t remember that it was his former residence.

Dayang Sumbi didn’t recognize him either when they met around the house. They both fell in
love and planned to get married soon. On the day of their marriage, Dayang Sumbi fixed
Sangkuriang’s bang. She found a scar on his head and remembered her old forgotten son.

Dayang Sumbi then called out the marriage and explained everything to Sangkuriang.
Blinded by his love, Sangkuriang couldn’t take the explanation and kept resisting marrying
his own mom. He even threatened that he will destroy everything he found. Dayang Sumbi
who knew that Sangkuriang has such God power felt threatened with it.

She then thought of an idea on how to defect the marriage. She gave Sangkuriang a term that
she thought he won’t be able to fulfill. In order to marry her, he needed to build her a huge
lake along with the boat just in a night. If he could fulfill it then she would marry him.

Sangkurinag with his Godey superpower asked the genies and spirits to help his work done in
just a few hours before the dawn. Dayang Sumbi who didn’t expect that to happen was so
surprised and thought of an idea. She made a huge fire in the east to decoy Sangkuriang so he
thought the dawn had coming.

The genies that thought it was the dawn were afraid of the sunlight run away and left
Sangkuriang alone. Sangkuriang was so mad that couldn’t finish his work. The coconut shell
he used to dig the ground was thrown to the East and becomes Mount Manglayang.

Sangkuriang kicked away the boat he made and apparently it was laid down on the back. The
boat then turned into Mount Tangkuban Perahu. Tangkuban Perahu literally means upside
down boat. Yes, believe it or not, the mountain looks like an upside down boat. (*)