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    Long time ago in West Java, lived a beautiful girl named Dayang Sumbi.

    A
    prince from the kingdom of Kahyangan wanted to marry her. His father
    approved on one condition, when they had a child, the prince would transform
    into a dog. The prince accepted the condition. They got married and lived
    happily in the woods until Dayang Sumbi gave birth to a baby boy. The prince
    then changed into a dog named Tumang.

    Their son was named Sangkuriang. Everyday, he hunted animals and looked
    for fruits to eat. One day, when he was hunting, Sangkuriang accidentally
    killed Tumang. His arrow missed the deer he was targeting and hit Tumang
    instead. He went home and told her mother about the dog.“What?” Dayang
    Sumbi was shocked. Driven by sadness and anger, she grabbed a weaving tool
    and hit Sangkuriang’s head with it. Sangkuriang felt sad and also confused.
    How can his mother love a dog more than him?

    Sangkuriang then decided to go away from their home and went on a journey.
    In the morning, Dayang Sumbi finally stopped crying. She started to feel
    better, so she went to find Sangkuriang. But her son was no where to be
    found. She looked everywhere but still couldn’t find him. Finally, she went
    home with nothing. She was exhausted. She fell asleep, and in her dream, she
    met her husband.“Dayang Sumbi, don’t be sad. Go look for my body in the
    woods and get the heart. Soak it with water, and use the water to bathe, and
    you will look young forever,” said the prince in her dream. After bathing with
    the water used to soak the dog’s heart, Dayang Sumbi looked more beautiful
    and even younger.

    Time passed by. Sangkuriang on his journey stopped at a village and met and
    fell in love with a beautiful girl.He didn’t realize that the village was his
    homeland and the beautiful girl was his own mother, Dayang Sumbi. He asked
    the girl to marry him. One day, Sangkuriang was going on a hunt. He asked
    Dayang Sumbi to fix the turban on his head. Dayang Sumbi was startled when
    she saw a scar on his head at the same place where she, years ago, hit
    Sangkuriang on the head.

    After the young man left, Dayang Sumbi prayed for guidance. After praying,
    she became convinced that the young man was indeed her missing son. She
    realized that she had to do something to prevent Sangkuriang from marrying
    her. So, although she agreed to marry Sangkuriang, she would do so only on
    the condition that he provided her with a lake and built a beautiful boat, all in
    one night. Sangkuriang accepted this condition. He had spent his youth
    studying magical arts. After the sun went down, Sangkuriang went to the hill.
    Then he called a group of genie to build a dam around Citarum River. 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, who had been spying on him, realised that Sangkuriang would
    fulfill the condition she had set. 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 red scarf, making it look as if dawn was breaking.
    Deceived by false dawn, the cock crowed and farmers rose for the new day.
    Sangkuriang’s genie servants immediately dropped their work and ran for
    cover from the sun, which they feared. Sangkuriang grew furious. With all his
    anger, he kicked the unfinished boat. The boat flew and landed on a valley.
    The boat then became a mountain, called Mount Tangkuban Perahu
    (Tangkuban means upturned or upside down, and Perahu means boat). With
    his power, he destroyed the dam. The water drained from the lake becoming a
    wide plain and nowadays became a city called Bandung (from the word
    Bendung, which means Dam). ^~^

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