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The story of Bujang Beji

bujang beji's story

in the past, there lived two leaders named bujang beji and tumenggung marubai. These two people had sif at the very opposite. tumenggung marubai is a kind and not arrogant person. bujang beji is a powerful person, but greedy and arrogant. both have a livelihood as a fish finder and have their own territory.tumenggung marubai and his followers find fish in the river junction melawi, melawi, while the bujang beji in the sungal junction of kapuas.mengbang melawi river region has many types of fish, more fish in the bungalows of kapuas.ltulah sail, and, basil catches tumenggung marubai always more bujang beji. tumenggung melawi use bubu or large shots to catch fish. After gathering in a trap, he only chooses large fish, he only choose large fish, while small fish can be released back so that the fish in the junction breech melawi always breed and never run out. Seeing the catch of marubai butggung, bujang beji feel envious. he also looked for ways to defeat the melawi thumenggung.then, he took a less good way.he began to catch fish by menuba, which is to poison the fish with tuba, and then, that is a type of poison from the roots of forest plants that are very intoxicating. initially, he got a lot of fish.more than the catch of marubai plants, because the way used is to kill fish with poison, over time the fish in the river kapuas junction become very reduced. meanwhile, marubai tumenggung still get a lot of catches. this makes the bujang beji become even more envious. "it can not be left!" thought bujang beji, "there should be a way to win butenggung marubai not get a lot of fish." then, bujang beji began to think hard. he found the way he thought best. "I have to close the flow of the melawi river with a large rock upstream of the river, thus the fish will settle there," thought bujang beji. bujang beji using the top of the rock hill in nanga silat, nanga silat, kapuas upstream to clog the melawi river. With his power, he cut the top of the rock hill and brought using seven leaves of the weeds. when carrying the rock hill, he cut the top of the rock, suddenly the sound of the girls laughing at him.they are goddesses in the land of heaven.When arriving at the junction between kapuas and malawi, bujang beji looked up to see who was laughing at him. accidentally, his feet stepped on a poisonous thorn until he stepped on and screamed in pain. As a result, the seven leaves of the weeds he was wearing were cut off. the top of the stone hill also fell in a stream called jetak. bujang beji was very angry with the goddess of heaven who laughed at him. "i will defeat you!" he shouted while stomping his feet impaled by dangerous thorns on one of the hills in the allergy.then, bujang beji tried to lift a stone hill that had been submerged in the trap by prying it using an elongated hill. however, because the stone hill was attached to the tile, the effort was unsuccessful.the elongated hill was broken.the fault is now called a liut hill. Thus, failed the bid bujang beji closed the melawi river. all because of the goddess khayangan.I will be vengeful, "said bujang benji. bujang benji plan to reach the land of khayangan by using the tree kumpang mambu, that is a type of giant wood tree whose tip rises to the sky. la began to plant kumpseang mambu trees dah tumbhon kumpseang mambu. once, until the top is not visible to the eye.before climbing the kumpseang mambu, kumpseang mambu, bujang beji perform traditional rituals, namely giving offerings to spirits and animals around him so as not to interfere with his efforts for hemunai duanis, who are not given offerings by bujang beji, so as not to interfere with his efforts for hemunai duanis, they are a group of termites and bears. Termites and bears feel angry, because they are not given offerings.they also negotiate to thwart the efforts of the bujang beji. "we gerogoti sampler sampler mambuus tree ituk" when the bujang beji began to climb the kumpang mambu tree, a horde of termites and bears came to storm and gnaw the tree at the bottom until the tree was cut off. At that time, the, bujang beji has almost reached the land of khayangan. la was knocked down to the ground and died instantly. Thus, the efforts of bujang beji to harm the goddess khayangan also failed. tumenggung marubai was spared from the evil intentions of bujang beji. Meanwhile, the top of the hill nanga silat who ignored from rolling bujang beji incarnated into a dark hill. now the dark hills become one of the attractions in the area of sintang, west Kalimantan, and become a tourist forest area with a very beautiful view.the moral message: the nature of envy, because it will harm yourself.