Folklore And Legends
LEGEND OF THE HIGH MOUNTAIN KING
On the northern island of Sumatra, precisely in the Simalungun area, there is a mountain called Gunung Tinggi Raja. To the left of the king's high mountain there is a dense forest with a very beautiful natural scenery. All kinds of flowers thrive there.
High Mountain King! Why is it called that? There must be a reason. To find out, let's follow the following story.
Long ago, the area where the establishment of Mount Tinggi Raja was a former kingdom led by the ancient king Silangit.
The king ruled justly and wisely. He had a queen and several concubines. From the empress and her concubines she had several beautiful Princesses. It is said that the king was not blessed with a son. Among the many Daughters the most beautiful is the Princess of the Empress, therefore the Princess is very dear to the king.
Once upon a time the season of planting rice came. Usually before planting rice will be held a ritual ceremony so that the harvest becomes abundant. The entire palace family took part in the ceremony. Only the king's mother and the princess of the empress did not participate.
“Ayahanda why can't I come?” The beautiful princess protested.
With a smile His Majesty replied “No child, you are at home with grandma. I can't bear to see your skin sunburned. Your beautiful skin and face can be damaged later.”
“But Ayahanda... I really want to see the ceremony of planting rice” The Princess sulked.
“Behold my son, to go to the fields must not take a vehicle, must walk in honor of the ancestors. You'll be exhausted and I'm afraid you'll get sick. Follow father's orders. All this for your own good.”
“But... ”
“Already my son, you will be accompanied by grandma..!”.
The beautiful princess was very disappointed. How he wanted to follow the ceremony of planting rice which he said was very lively. During his life only once he saw the rice planting ceremony when he was ten years old. Since he was seventeen years old, his father had always forbidden the ceremony.
“Ayahanda is not fair, why are my other brothers allowed to come but I am not..” So the Princess grumbled in her heart.
That day the king went with all the soldiers and the people to the field. All her beautiful children were lined up in the front row. Only the princess of the empress is not allowed to come.
Everyone was happy, along the road seemed lively once the king's accompaniment group followed by the Princesses and palace soldiers. The inhabitants are confusing them. Beautiful Princess could only watch the departure of the group from the palace courtyard. After the party vanished from the sight of the Princess. The atmosphere really felt quiet. Feeling lonely at last the princess cried bitterly.
“Why do you choose love! Why can't I join the ceremony...!” Shouted the Princess on the sidelines of her cries.
The quiet atmosphere of the palace made the crying voice of the Princess sound loud. The crying sound was heard by the mother of the Ancient King Silangit. The old woman looked at her grandson.
“Cucuku... What's wrong?”.
“Oh, grandma, I would love to join the rice planting ceremony. But Father will not allow. Though the other Princesses are allowed to join.”
The grandmother felt sorry to hear the cries and complaints of her grandson.
“Cup! The cup! Never mind my granddaughter. Let it be next planting season I ask that you can participate.”.
“But grandma... Right now I really want to join seta.”
“Oh, so want to still want to see the ceremony?”
“Grandmother...!”
“Just see ya!”
“Ya only see!”
“Can't get close, just look from above! Want?” The grandmother confirmed.
“Later you'll know. If you want to see now follow my orders I will help you.”
“Ya grandma..!”
The grandmother is known as a person who knows the supernatural. He asked his granddaughter to cook water in a large pot. In the water-filled shafts it should be meat, plus some various flowers. Everything the grandmother asked was done by the Princess. The wood in the large furnace was already lit. Slowly but surely the water in the pot immediately boiled. As the water boiled, the grandmother told her granddaughter to come in.
“Cucuku... Now go in belanga!”.
“What grandmother...? Doesn't it hurt...? Ask the princess doubtfully.
“I'm your own grandmother, there's no way I'm harming you.”
“Ya grandma... I trust.”
The princess threw herself into the pit. It is strange, even though the water in the pot is turbulent because it is boiling but the Princess does not feel hot. Moments after the Princess drowned, she became a beautiful white dove.
“Thank you grandma...!”
Fly the princess's dove to the field where her father is. Meanwhile, the planting ceremony has already begun. In the middle of the ceremony suddenly saw a white dove flying around the field. While circling the dove was singing in a melodious voice. Everyone was stunned to hear the singing voice of the dove. The Ancient King of Silangit.
“It looks like I've heard that voice and chant.” The king murmured while remembering.
“God... The voice was like the voice of my son I left in the palace.”
It was so fun to follow the ceremony that the king and empress forgot to deliver food to the Princess and her mother who lived in the palace. Various types of food have been cooked in the ceremony but instead the king forgot his mother and daughter. Ancient King Silangit immediately ordered a soldier to go deliver food to the palace for his mother and daughter.
Unfortunately, this soldier is a soldier who likes to do cycled. He likes corruption, everything is commonly abused. In the middle of the road the delicious food was actually devoured by himself, only a small part and the bones he left behind. The remains of the food were what he brought to the palace before the king's mother.
“What? This is all the king gave me..?” Ask the mother with a angry face.
“Pardon servant... servant just execute command.” The soldier culas.
“I've been hungry all day. While you guys are having a nice ceremony with delicious food. Really don't know yourself. It's a big insult to his name!” The mother was really angry.
“Hamba... servant..please yourself..” The soldier was frightened. Soon he ran fast towards the field.
With fiery eyes the mother king pegi to the palace courtyard. He caught a cat. Then he tied the cat's head with a cloth. The fabric used is a head binding cloth commonly used by women when doing traditional dances. Next he called the little ones to follow him to the meeting hall near the palace. After the children gathered, they were invited to play drums. Not just any drum, but traditional heirloom drums that are believed to have potent pain. With the accompaniment of the sound of the drum, the grandmother told the tied cat to dance.
So dance the cat with a very strange movement. Soon dark clouds enveloped the sky and there was the sound of thunder. The harder the kids hit the drum, the cats the crazier the dance.
Lightning in space continues to explode with disdain along with that there was a very powerful earthquake. The ground split open gaping from within the split ground was emitting hot water. The longer the earthquake shaking gets louder, the more ground splits and collapses the more hot water gushes out and flows everywhere.
The king and all the participants of the ceremony became frightened. They ran here and there to save themselves. But it is useless, wherever they run the earth is always split and swallow them. A few hours later the kingdom of the ancient King Silangit and all its inhabitants disappeared. Everything is finished in the earth. No one survived. Even more strangely the land around the kingdom suddenly soared to form a mountain. Later on the mountain was called High Mountain King.
Decades later, around Mount Tinggi Raja grew a dense forest. Around the forest there are many colorful flowers.
It is said that the colorful flower is the incarnation of the empress, concubines and Princesses of Ancient King Silangit. In the area there is also an opening ground that looks like a palace building called a hollow house.
Such is the story that lives among the people of North Sumatra Simalungun.