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    The legend of Sangkuriang tells the story of a young man in Indonesia who falls in love with and plans to marry his mother without realizing their relationship. His mother Dayang Sumbi sets him impossible tasks to complete by dawn to prevent the wedding from happening, including filling a valley with water to create a lake and building a boat. With the help of spirits, Sangkuriang is able to complete the tasks by dawn, horrifying his mother who hoped he would fail. The legend explains the creation of several geographic features in the area, including Lake Bandung.

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    The legend of Sangkuriang tells the story of a young man in Indonesia who falls in love with and plans to marry his mother without realizing their relationship. His mother Dayang Sumbi sets him impossible tasks to complete by dawn to prevent the wedding from happening, including filling a valley with water to create a lake and building a boat. With the help of spirits, Sangkuriang is able to complete the tasks by dawn, horrifying his mother who hoped he would fail. The legend explains the creation of several geographic features in the area, including Lake Bandung.

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    The legend of Sangkuriang tells the story of a young man in Indonesia who falls in love with and plans to marry his mother without realizing their relationship. His mother Dayang Sumbi sets him impossible tasks to complete by dawn to prevent the wedding from happening, including filling a valley with water to create a lake and building a boat. With the help of spirits, Sangkuriang is able to complete the tasks by dawn, horrifying his mother who hoped he would fail. The legend explains the creation of several geographic features in the area, including Lake Bandung.

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    The Legend of Sangkuriang

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    The legend of Sangkuriang tells the story of a young man in Indonesia who falls in love with and plans to marry his mother without realizing their relationship. His mother Dayang Sumbi sets him impossible tasks to complete by dawn to prevent the wedding from happening, including filling a valley with water to create a lake and building a boat. With the help of spirits, Sangkuriang is able to complete the tasks by dawn, horrifying his mother who hoped he would fail. The legend explains the creation of several geographic features in the area, including Lake Bandung.

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    THE LEGEND OF SANGKURIANG

    Sangkuriang is a legend among Sundanese people in Indonesia. The legend tells about the
    creation of Lake Bandung, Mount Tangkuban Parahu, Mount Burangrang and Mount Bukit Tunggul.
    The legend of Sangkuriang tells the story of a young man who falls in love with his own mother,
    which is somewhat comparable to the Greek tragedy Oedipus.
    From the legend, we can determine how long the Sundanese have been living in Java island. Firmly
    supported by geological facts, it is predicted that the Sundanese have been living on Java Island
    since a thousand years BC.
    The legend of Sangkuriang was almost certainly a story of oral tradition before being written down.
    The first written reference to Sangkuriang legend appeared in the Bujangga Manik manuscript
    written on palm leaves at the end of the 15th century or the early 16th century AD. Prince Jaya
    Pakuan, alias Prince Bujangga Manik or prince Ameng Layaran, visited all of the sacred Hindu sites
    in Java island and Bali island at the end of the 15th century AD. Using palm leaves, he described his
    travels in archaic Sundanese. His palm manuscript was taken to England by an Englishmen and put
    at the Bodleian library, Oxford, in 1627.[1]
    After a long journey, Bujangga Manik arrived in the current Bandung city area. He is the first
    eyewitness to report on the area. Below is a transcription of his report:
    The reunion and impossible task[edit]
    Sangkuriang suffered amnesia as a result of being hit in the head by his mother and slowly loses all
    memory of her. After running away from home, he met a powerful wise hermit who adopted him and
    taught him pencak silat (martial arts) as well as supernatural skills to control the guriang, a type
    of hyang spirit. Sangkuriang grew up to be a handsome, strong man who puts his strength to good
    use by helping villagers in their fights against bandits and other troublemakers. Despite his carefree
    life, fate would intervene when he saw a beautiful girl in front of a small cottage on his way home
    through the forest. They started chatting and then spent more and more time together, eventually
    falling in love and made plans to marry. Never once did Sangkuriang recognised the cottage to be
    his childhood home and the beautiful girl to be his own mother.
    One day before the planned wedding, Dayang Sumbi was brushing Sangkuriang's hair when she
    recognised a scar on Sangkuriang's head. All the pieces fell together and she suddenly realized that
    she had fallen in love with her own son who had left her 12 years previously. Horrified, she knew
    immediately she could not marry her own son and revealed the whole truth to Sangkuriang and
    begged him to call off the wedding. But Sangkuriang did not believe her and insisted on going
    through with the wedding. Dayang Sumbi tried to further discourage Sangkuriang by presenting what
    she thought would be some impossible tasks for Sangkuriang to do as her conditions to marry him.
    First, Sangkuriang had to build her a great lake by filling the whole valley with water and then she
    asked for a boat so both of them could sail in it into the lake. The catch was that both tasks had to be
    completed in one night. Sangkuriang accepted the challenge and with the help of some guriangs
    (heavenly spirits or gods in ancient Sundanese belief), he dammed the Citarum river with landslides.
    The river's water rose and filled the plain, transforming it into a lake. Then, Sangkuriang completed
    his second part of Dayang Sumbi's conditions by cutting down a massive tree to make a boat.
    When dawn broke, Sangkuriang had almost completed building the boat and this mortified Dayang
    Sumbi who had been convinced that he would fail. Refusing to give up, she made a final great
    prayer call to God for help. She wove her magic shawl and filled the eastern horizon with flashes of
    light. Deceived by what appeared to be dawn, cocks crowed and farmers rose for a new day.

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