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Tangkuban Perahu: The Ruined City

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Tangkuban Perahu: The Ruined City Once upon a time, there lived a god and a goddess that were sent to earth in figures of animals because they were punished. The goddess became a boar, which was also known as Wayung Hyang. The god, on the other hand, became a black dog and was called Si Tumang. After a few years, Wayung Hyang conceived and gave birth to a beautiful child named Dayang Sumbi. She was undeniably pretty and everyone wanted to marry her. One day, she was in a river and she fell. Nobody was there to help her so she shouted, “If anyone helps me, I promise I will marry you.” Those words that fell out of her mouth surely wasn’t put into thought because Si Tumang, the black dog, eventually came and rescued her. Since she promised, she indeed married him, what she didn’t know was that Si Tumang was actually a handsome god in disguise. On a full …show more content…

His fiance was actually Sangkuriang’s mother, Dayang Sumbi. She soon found out that her lover was her own son because of the scar on his head. Knowing that, she tried to find a way to cancel their wedding. Before the wedding day, Dayang Sumbi requires Sangkuriang to fulfill two petitions before he can actually marry her. She wanted him to build her a boat that is so big so that it can fill the whole river before dawn. Sangkuriang accepted her petition and started to make the boat. He chopped a tree so big and started to make a boat in Citarum River. However when Dayang Sumbi saw that Sangkuriang was able to fulfill her petition, she begged to the gods to make him not successful. Her cry was heard by the gods and the sun rised. When Sangkuriang saw that his boat wasn’t finished, he was angry. He was so angry that he broke the dam in Citarum River that it drowned the whole city. He also kicked the boat he made into the drowning city. This was the legend behind Tangkuban Perahu, the city which was ruined because of Sangkuriang’s

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