A long time ago in West Java, lived a woman named Dayang Sumbi. She lived alone and she was thirsting for a husband. One day when quilting, her quilt fell to the ground. Then she prayed to the gods "If a man picks up my quilt, he will be my husband. If a woman does, she will be my sister." Then, a male dog picked it up. So Dayang Sumbi got married to the dog, and called him Tumang.Dayang Sumbi gave a birth to a son, named him Sangkuriang, but never told him who his father was.
One day, Sangkuriang was hunting with Tumang in the forest. They found nothing and Sangkurian blamed the failure on Tumang and killed him. When Dayang Sumbi learned waht Sangkuriang had done, she hit Sangkuriang's head with a big spoon and expelled him.Many years later, the wandering Sangkuriang found a house in the forest where an an old beautiful woman lived. He instantly fell in love with her.
The woman was Dayang Sumbi (his mother) and she recognized hime although he did not know her. Sangkuriang forced her to marry him. She told Sangkuriang that he had to build a vast boat for their honeymoon, and in just one night. In the night, Sangkuriang called on the ghosts and forest fairies to help him. Fearing the boat would be completed, Dayang Sumbi asked another women in the nearby forest to help her.
The women caused a great noise and Dayang Sumbi made flashes of light that the fairies took to be the morning light. THe fairies fled and the boat was not completed. Enraged, Sangkuriang kicked the boat. It turned upside down and turned into a mountain, called Tangkuban Parahu. The mountain stands in the north of the city of Bandung, until now.
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