The Legend of Lake Toba

Once upon a time, a fisherman lived in Batak Land named Batara Guru Sahara. He
caught a fish. He was a surprised to find that the fish could talk.

“ Oh my God, who is you? Are you fish?

It begged Sahala to let it free.

“ Please let me free” He did accordingly.

As soon as the fish was free, it changed into a woman.

“wow.. a beautiful girl”

She was beautiful that Sahala left in love her at once. He asked to marry him. The
woman agreed to marry Sahala. However, she told him that he must never let out the secret
that she was once fish. Sahala promised her that he could not tell anyone about it.

They were happily married, and had two daughters. Every morning Sahala went out
fishing. His daughters would bring his lunch. One day, however instead of bringing the food
to their father, the two girls ate it.

When Sahala knew that they had done with meal, he got very angry. He shouted at
them saying,

“ You behaved exactly like the daughters of fish!”

The daughters didn’t know what their father meant. They went home and asked their
mother about it. Their mother was very annoyed. Althought Sahala apologized to her later,
she would not forgive him for breaking his promise.

Then the earth began to shake, and volcanoes started to erupt. The earth cracked and
formed a big hole. People said the hole became LAKE TOBA.