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Kamis, 02 Juni 2016

Be carefull of our folklores we tell to our children - Are they goos enough?

Ok, let us see some of them:

1. The Origin of Mount Tangkuban Parahu
Thew story begin when one of the king in Western Java went hunting in the midle of the junggle. It seems that during the hunting the almighty king needed to relief his bladder, and pee at the nearest spot. (Hadn't his parent ever give him toilet training?) A female boar passing by, and drank his urine and she got pregnant. When the boar delivered her baby - a completely human baby girl precisely, the king took her, bought her to the castil and named her Dayang Sumbi.

Soon, Dayang Sumbi become a very beautifull young princess that attrack every male she met. She like to knit. Someday when she knited in the tree house. Unfortunately, one of her equipment is fellen. Too lazy to pick by herself (she was a princess anyway) she made a vow that whoever willing to pick it for her, she will make him  her husband.
And instead of a handsome prince - a knight in shinning armor like - a dog belong to his father took it and give it to her. Shortly, she and the dog (called Tumang) married - I dont know how - and the Princess was pregnant. 
The ashamed King kick the princess out of the castil, accompanied by her faithfull "husband" who happend to be a dog and isolated themselves deep in the forest.
What is the lesson we can learn in this story? Can you find any moral value we can teach to our children? Let us see another folklore:
2.  Mount Kelud Curses
Dewi Kilisuci was a Crown Princess of Medang Kahuripan, the daughter of King Airlangga. She was very popular for her beauty, inteligence and her kindheart. When King Airlangga want to retire, he ponted Princess Kilisuci to become the next Queen. But The Princess refused him and choose to be a monk. Later, Kahuripan Kingdom was devided into 2 kingdoms: Panjalu and Kadiri and rules by King Airlangga two sons, Sri Samarawijaya and Mapanji Garasakan.
However, being a monk can not restrain every man to not fall in love to her beauty. Some of them were The Sura Brothers, Lembu Sura and Mahesa Sura who happened to be minotaurs. Then they proposed the Princess to be one of the brothers wife. Frighten by this two demons, Princess Kilisuci gave them one condition, to be able to made two wells on the peak of Mount Kelud. They have to build the wells for a night only. The Sura Brothers do that without any doubt. Unfortunately, when they bussied themselves in the depth of the volcanoe, The Princess order the villager near Mount Kelud to stoned the minotaurs beneath the well.
Mahesa and Lembu Sura have been succesfully killed. But before they die, they curse people who stoned them that they will suffer from disaster repeatly. And since that time, Mount Kelud errupts every 15 - 30 years, until recently.
Once again, what if moral value in this stories? That just because someone are ugly, we can betray them as we please? I can imagine how minotaur looks like, maybe Princess Kilisuci think if we betray demon-like poeple, we still can be called as noble human?
The story of Mont Kelus Curse are very similar to The Legend Of Damar Wulan, where Queen Kencana Wungu won't keep her promise to married Jaka Umbaran since he got badly injured after defeated Kebo Marcuet, Duke of Bali who rebeled againts Majapahit Kingdom. The dissapointed Jaka Umbaran then chalenged The Queen and trigered The Battle of Paregreg.
Too bad that so called religious people called indonesian like to betray each other over silly reason, phisical appearance for example.

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