Gunung Tangkuban Perahu

Origins of Mount Maras
In West Java, precisely in Bandung regency, there is a very beautiful recreation area is Mount Maras. Maras means the boat overturned. Named because its shape it resembles an overturned boat. It is said that according to folklore parahyangan mountain was indeed an overturned boat. Here is his story.
Thousands of years ago, the land Parahyangan headed by a king and a queen who has only a daughter. The princess named Dayang Sumbi. She was very pretty and intelligent, unfortunately he was extremely spoiled. On a day when he was weaving on the porch of the palace, Dayang Sumbi felt weak and dizzy. He dropped to the floor of the yarn spun many times. When pintalannya fall for the umpteenth time Dayang Sumbi became angry and swore, she would marry whoever wants to get pintalannya it. Right after those words were spoken oath, came a dog named magic spun Tumang and handed it to the hands of Dayang Sumbi. Then inevitably, in accordance with his oath, Dayang Sumbi must marry the dog.
Dayang Sumbi and Tumang live happily until their blessed with a child in the form of a human child but have magic powers like his father. This child was named Sangkuriang. In times of growth, and accompanied se Sangkuring play by a dog named Tumang that he knew only as a faithful dog, not as a father. Sangkuriang grown into a handsome young man and gallant.

On a day Dayang Sumbi sent his son to go along with his dog to hunt deer for the purposes of any party. After a long search with no results, Sangkuriang feel desperate, but he did not want to disappoint his mother. So he is forced to take up a crossbow and pointed it at Tumang. Arriving home he handed over to his mother Tumang meat. dayanng Sumbi who thought the meat was venison, was elated over her success.
Soon after the party Dayang Sumbi remembered Tumang and asked her son where Tumang located. At first Sangkuriang afraid, tapa finally he told her what had happened to her mother. Dayang Sumbi became very angry, in a rage he hit Sangkuriang until fainted right in his forehead. For his actions that Dayang Sumbi expelled from the kingdom by his father. Fortunately Sangkuriang regained consciousness but blows his mother left scars that are very wide in keningnya.Setelah adults, Sangkuriang went wandering to know the state of the outside world.
A few years later, Sangkuriang met a very beautiful woman. He immediately fell in love with the woman. The woman was her own mother, but they did not recognize each other. Sangkuriang propose, Dayang Sumbi also accept gladly. The day before the wedding day, when she was his fiancee's hair, Dayang Sumbi see the wide scar on the forehead Sangkuriang


, he finally realizes that she almost married his own son. Knowing that Dayang Sumbi tried to thwart her marriage. After thinking hard he finally decided to propose the terms of marriage that can not be granted by Sangkuriang. Condition is: Sangkuriang must create a dam that could cover the entire mountain, and make a boat to traverse the dam. All that must be completed before dawn.
Sangkuriang start working. Her love is so great at Sangkuriang gave him a strange power. Do not forget he also uses the power he got from his father to summon the jinn and helped. With mud and soil they stem water from rivers and springs. Sometime before dawn, Sangkuriang cut down a large tree to make a boat. When Dayang Sumbi see that Sangkuriang almost completed its work, he prayed to the gods to hinder his work and speed up the arrival of the morning.
The roosters crowed, the sun rises faster than usual and Sangkuriang realized that he had been duped. With so angry he cursed Dayang Sumbi and kicking a homemade boat nearly so to the middle of the forest. The boat was to be there in a state upside down, and formed Tangkuban Perahu (boat menelungkub). Not far from that place are the rest of felling a tree stump Sangkuriang, now we know him as Hill stumps. Dams are made Sangkuriang cause the whole hillside filled with water, forming a lake where Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi immerse yourself and not heard from again until now.