Once upon a time, on the coast of Java in an area called Tanjung Perak, there lived a variety of sea animals. They live in peace and harmony. Only an octopus, called Cumi could not get along with the other sea creatures. Cumi was very cruel.
One day Cumi went to the house of a fish named Suro. He told Suro that one of the crocodiles, Boyo, would soon attack Suro. Suro and Boyo, were the best of friends and kind to each other, so of course, Suro does not believe Cumi. Cumi has many arguments with Suro, but Suro does not believe Cumi's lies.Finally, Cumi goes to the house of Boyo.
This time Cumi's lies are so believable that Boyo believes what Cumi says. He gets upset and swims in a hurry to Suro's house. Boyo is very angry and is strong and cruel. He attacks Suro and wounds him. Suro is still calm and does not fight back. But knowing that Boyo would never stop attacking him, Suro becomes brave and strong. He fight Boyo bravely until the sea turns red with their blood.In the place where they fought was built the city called Suroboyo.
Suroboyo is a Javanese word derived from Suro and Boyo. (Suro means brave and Boyo means danger. Suroboyo therefore means brave in danger. In Indonesian language Suroboyo is pronounced and spelled Surabaya.WANEBAKA, SON OF TUNDEIn Bali, there was a man called Tunde. He had been married for ten years but had no child, so he was happy when his wife got pregnant.
But after a few months, his wife's belly returned to its normal size. It happened many times and he asked a shaman for help but the shaman could not do anything about it.One day, when Tunde's pregnant wife was washing at the river, she felt something falling down from her body to the river, but she ignored it and kept washing. After that, her belly again returned to the normal size. At home, she told her husband. "Maybe the gods don't want us to have a child," Tunde said. Time passed and for the next ten years Tunde's wife didn't get pregnant again.
One day some women who were washing at the river heard somebone singing but they didn't see anyone around.O washing womenTell my father TundeThat Wanebaka has grown upAnd wants to be circumcised soonThe scared women told Tunde what they had experienced. First Tunde ignored it.
It occurred again and finally he attended a simple circumcising ritual, while there was no boy to actually be circumcised.15 years later, the washing women heard somebody's singing again. This time they didn't get afraid. O washing women Tell my father TundeThat Wanebaka has grown up And wants to be married Tunde then looked for a girl who would be a bride for his non-existent son. He paid for the bride and arranged the marriage. He came to the river and said, "Whoever you are, if you're really my son, come on the day of your wedding." At the wedding ceremony, a guest saw a snake crawling to Tunde's house and everyone ran away in a panic.
The snake was disappointed and disappeared in the bush.A few years later, the song was heard again at the river and Tunde did the same thing as before but this time he threatened the bride that he would kill her if she ran away. At the ceremony, the snake appeared again and everyone ran away including Tunde and his wife. The bride stood where she was, waiting for her death. The snake's tail touched her toe. The snake went into a room and the bride followed the snake. The snake drank a bottle of tuak and got drunk. While it was sleeping, its skin removed from the body. The bride gathered it and burned it outside the house. The ashes were buried and when she returned to the room she found a handsome man sleeping in the bed. "Now you won't be a snake anymore, and I'll be your loyal wife," she said.
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