Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Sangkuriang


This is an example of how nature was converted into a legend, such as Bandung lake and Mt Tangkuban Perahu with the story of Queen Dayang Sumbi and her son Sangkuriang cited from Neuman va Padang (1971). Once Sangkuriang, whilst growing up, he was so naughty and got hurt and the wound formed an ugly scar.

The King, who loved his son above everything was so furious that his son had hurt himself that he rejected his wife. Fifteen years later, being of age, Sangkuriang asked his father permission to take a trip to West Java. After arriving in the plain of Bandung, he met a beautiful lady, fell in love and ask her to marry him and she accepted. But one day when she caressed her lover’s head she saw the wound. The loving woman, turned out to be the disowned queen, discovered that she was in love with her son and marriage was impossible.

The marriage had to be prevented. Not willing to admit that she was his mother she thought of a way out. The day before the wedding was due to take place, she said to her husband to be, tomorrow is our wedding day, and if you are true to your love to me and love me as much you say do then I want to celebrate the wedding on board a ship, a proa. Tomorrow morning at day break, I want to sail with you on a great lake in a nice boat and there must be a banquet feast. Sangkuriang was embarrassed but he was not willing to refuse. He begged the help of the lake’s helpful spirits. By causing a landslide, the lake spirit dammed the river Citarum that flowed through the plain of Bandung. The force of the water felled big tree and a boat was constructed while other lake spirits prepared the wedding banquet.

Early in the morning the Queen saw that the impossible had been realised so she prayed to Brama, the mighty God, to help her to prevent the disgrace of a marriage between a mother and her son. Brama destroyed the dam in turbulence and Sangkuriang was drowned. The queen in her agony threw herself on the capsized boat, breaking through the hull of the ship and was also drowned.

Now, the vast plain of Bandung is flanked on its north side by the volcano Tangkuban Perahu, the capsized boat. The Queen’s jump on the hull of the ship is the Kawah Ratu, the crater of the Queen. The hot fumaroles and tremors in the crater represent the tears of the sad mother still sobbing. East of Mt Tangkuban Perahu rises the Bukit Tunggul, trunk mountain, the trunk of the tree from which the boat was made and to the west we find Mt Burangrang, the “crown of leaves”. At many places along the shore of the lake Neolithic obsidian tools of primitive inhabitants are found and described by von Koeningswald (1935). These Neolithic people noticed that the hold was cut deeper and deeper by erosion caused by the lowering water. Finally only a marshy plain remained.


Centuries later the inhabitants of Bandung plain still know about the legend of the existence of a former lake. Not knowing anything about geology, but living in the taboos of spirit ghosts and Gods, geological facts were put together in a tale that was understandable.

TERJEMAHAN :

Ini adalah contoh bagaimana alam diubah menjadi legenda, seperti danau Bandung dan Gunung Tangkuban Perahu dengan cerita Ratu Dayang Sumbi dan Sangkuriang anaknya dikutip dari Neuman va Padang (1971). Setelah Sangkuriang, sementara tumbuh dewasa, dia begitu nakal dan terluka dan lukanya membentuk bekas luka yang jelek.

Raja, yang mencintai anaknya di atas segalanya begitu marah bahwa anaknya telah melukai dirinya sendiri dan ia menolak istrinya. Lima belas tahun kemudian, karena usia, Sangkuriang meminta izin ayahnya untuk melakukan perjalanan ke Jawa Barat. Setelah tiba di dataran Bandung, ia bertemu dengan seorang wanita cantik, ia jatuh cinta dan memintanya untuk menikah dengannya dan ia diterima. Tapi suatu hari ketika ia membelai kepala kekasihnya, dia melihat luka. Wanita yang dicintainya, ternyata ia adalah ratu, menemukan bahwa dia jatuh cinta dengan putranya dan pernikahan tidak mungkin dilakukan.

Pernikahan harus dicegah. Tidak bersedia mengakui bahwa dia adalah ibunya dia memikirkan jalan keluar. Hari sebelum pernikahan itu berlangsung, dia berkata kepada suaminya untuk menjadi, besok adalah hari pernikahan kami, dan jika Anda benar cinta kepada saya dan mencintai saya sebanyak yang Anda katakan lakukan kemudian saya ingin merayakan pernikahan di atas kapal, perahu. Besok pagi hari saat istirahat, aku ingin berlayar dengan Anda di sebuah danau besar di atas perahu yang bagus dan harus ada pesta perjamuan. Sangkuriang merasa malu tapi dia tidak mau menolak. Dia memohon bantuan dari roh pembantu danau. Dengan membuat tanah longsor, semangat danau sungai Citarum dibendung yang mengalir melalui dataran Bandung. Kekuatan air menebang pohon besar dan perahu dibangun, sementara roh danau lain mempersiapkan pesta pernikahan.

Pagi-pagi Ratu melihat bahwa mungkin telah terwujud sehingga dia berdoa kepada Brama, Allah perkasa, untuk membantu dia mencegah aib perkawinan antara seorang ibu dan anaknya. Brama menghancurkan bendungan di turbulensi dan Sangkuriang tenggelam. Ratu dalam penderitaannya melemparkan dirinya di perahu terbalik, menembus lambung kapal dan juga tenggelam.

Sekarang, dataran luas Bandung diapit di sebelah utara dengan gunung berapi Tangkuban Perahu, perahu terbalik. Melompat Ratu pada lambung kapal adalah Kawah Ratu, kawah Ratu. Para fumarol panas dan tremor di kawah mewakili air mata ibu yang masih terisak sedih. Timur Gunung Tangkuban Perahu yang naik Bukit Tunggul, gunung batang, batang pohon dari mana kapal itu dibuat dan ke barat Gunung Burangrang kami menemukan, "mahkota daun". Di banyak tempat di sepanjang pantai dari danau Neolitik alat obsidian penduduk primitif yang ditemukan dan dijelaskan oleh von Koeningswald (1935). Orang-orang Neolitik menyadari bahwa memegang dipotong lebih dalam dan lebih dalam dengan erosi yang disebabkan oleh air menurunkan. Akhirnya hanya sebuah dataran berawa tetap.

Berabad-abad kemudian penduduk Bandung masih polos tahu tentang legenda keberadaan danau mantan. Tidak tahu apa-apa tentang geologi, tetapi tinggal di tabu hantu roh dan dewa, fakta geologi disatukan dalam sebuah cerita yang dimengerti.

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