SANG KURIANG

A long time ago in West Java, lived a

beautiful girl named Dayang Sumbi.
Her beauty and intelligence made a
prince from the heavenly kingdom of
Kahyangan desire her as his wife. The
prince asked permission from his father
to marry Dayang Sumbi. However,
people from Kahyangan could never
live side by side with humans, but his
father approved on one condition, when they had a child, the prince would transform into a
dog.

They got married and Dayang Sumbi gave birth to a baby boy named Sangkuriang. The prince
then changed into a dog named Tumang. He was very smart and handsome like his father.
Sangkuriang liked to hunt animals and looked for fruits to eat. One day, when he was hunting,
Sangkuriang accidently killed Tumang. He went home and told her mother about the dog.

Driven by sadness and anger, she grabbed a big spoon and hit Sangkuriang's head with it.
Dayang Sumbi was so sad and started to cry because she just lost her husband. Sangkuriang
feels confused. How can his mother love a dog more than him? Sangkuriang then decided to
run away from their home.

Many years later, Sangkuriang found a house of a beautiful woman. He didn't know that the
woman was his mother and fell in love with her. Sangkuriang forced her to marry him but
Dayang Sumbi could not accept it because she knew that the boy was her son.

She realizes that she needs to do something to prevent Sangkuriang from marrying her. Dayang
sumbi decided to ask him an impossible requirement to marry her in order for him to give up.
She asked Sangkuriang to build her a big boat within one night.

Without doubt, Sangkuriang accepted this condition and worked hard to fulfil the condition.
Then he commands the genies to cut down trees and build a boat. A few moments before dawn,
Sangkuriang and his genie servants almost finished the boat.
Dayang Sumbi immediately woke all the women in the village and asked them to wave a long
red scarf. All the women in the village were waving their red scarf, making it look as if dawn
was breaking. Deceived by false dawn, the cock crowned and farmers rose to the new day.

Sangkuriang immediately dropped their work. With all his anger, he kicked the unfinished boat.
The boat flew and landed on a vallet, The boat then became a mountain, called Tangkuban
Perahu.