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Wanara Ciung
the legend of the sunda galuh kingdom, the origin of the name of the river pamali and describes the cultural relationship between the Sundanese and Javanese who live in the western part of central Java province.
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this story comes from the tradition of sundanese oral stories called pantun sunda which were later written into books written by several Sundanese writers, both in Sundanese and Indonesian [
summary
the descent of the king
formerly stood a large kingdom on the island of Java called the kingdom of galuh, its capital is located in galuh near ciamis now.it is believed that at that time the kingdom galuh stretched from the tip of the kulon, the western end of Java, java, up to the galuh end ("galuh end"), which is currently the estuary of the brantas river near present-day Surabaya.The kingdom is ruled by the king of the permana prabu in kusumah. after reigning for a long time the king decided to become a hermit and therefore he summoned the barbaric aria minister to the palace.In addition, he decided to become a hermit, aria kebonan had also come to the king to bring a report about the kingdom.While she was waiting in front of the priest, she saw the servant busy pacing back and forth, arranging everything for the king. the minister thought how happy he would be to be king.Every order was obeyed, every wish was fulfilled.
as he was daydreaming there, the king called out to him.
"ariah the son of a bitch, is it true that you want to be king?" the king knew it because he was endowed with supernatural powers.
"no, your honor, I can't."
"don't lie, aria's a badass, I know that."
"sorry, your majesty, I just thought about it." "well, I will make you king as long as I go to meditate, you will be king and rule properly.. you will not treat (sleep with) my two wives, the goddess Pangrenyep and the goddess naganingrum as your wives."
"alright, your honor."
"i will change your appearance to that of a handsome man.Your name will be prabu barma wijaya.Tell the people that the king has become young and I myself will go to a secret place. you will be king!"
at the time of the appearance of the kebonan aria resembled the prabu permana in the kusumah, but looked ten years younger. people believe the announcement that he is the king of prabu permana in kusumah who has become ten years younger and changed his name to prabu barma wijaya. it was uwa batara lengser who knew the agreement between the king and the minister.prabu barma wijaya became proud and humiliated uwa batara lengser who could not do anything. he also treated the two queens harshly.the two avoided him, except in public when they behaved as if they were the wife of prabu barma wijaya.
birth of two princes
one night the two queens dreamed that the moon was falling over them. They reported it to the king who frightened him, because the dream is usually a warning for women who will get pregnant. this is not possible because he is not guilty of treating the two queens as his wives.uwa batara lengser appeared and proposed to invite a new hermit, a new hermit, the so-called teaching of sukaresi - which is none other than the king of prabu permana in kusumah - to explain the strange dream.prabu barma wijaya agreed, prabu, and as soon as the hermit arrived at the palace he was asked by the king about the meaning of the dream.
"the two queens were expecting a child, his majesty." despite being surprised by his answer, prabu barma wijaya could still control himself.Want to know how far the hermit dared to lie to him, he asked another question. "will they be girls or boys?"
"both boys, his majesty." on this the king could no longer hold back, took his keris and pricked the tavern of the rausesi to die but he failed.
"do the king want me dead? if so, I will die." then the hermit fell. The king kicked his corpse so violently that it was thrown into the forest where it turned into a great dragon, called nagawiru. in the palace, and, something strange happened.the two queens were indeed pregnant. After some time the goddess pangrenyep gave birth to a son named hariang banga.
one day when the prabu barma wijaya visited the goddess naganingrum, miraculously the unborn naganingrum fetus spoke: "barma wijaya, you have forgotten many of your promises. the more you do cruel things, the shorter your power will be.."
evil plan
the strange event of the talking fetus made the king very angry and afraid of the threat of the fetus.he wanted to get rid of the fetus and soon found a way to do it. he asked the goddess Pangrenyep for help in escaping from the baby goddess naganingrum to be born as ******** according to his dreams. he would not be fit to be the ruler of this land together with hariang banga, the son of the goddess pangrenyep. The queen believed this and agreed, but what to do? "we're going to exchange the baby for a dog and throw it into the citanduy river."
queen Naganingrum soon realized that she was holding a baby dog, she was very surprised and fell sad.The two criminals tried to get rid of the goddess naganingrum from the palace by telling lies to the people, but no one believed in them, even uwa batara lengser could not do anything because the king and queen of the goddess pangrenyep were very powerful. barma wijaya even ordered the death penalty over the goddess naganingrum because she had given birth to a dog, which was considered a curse from the gods and a disgrace to the kingdom. uwa batara lengser was ordered to carry out the execution.he brought the poor queen to the forest, but he did not kill her heart, he even woke up a hut that was good for her. to convince the king and queen of pangrenyep that he had done their bidding, he showed them the bloodstained clothes of the goddess naganingrum.
cockfighting
in the village of geger sunten, on the banks of the citanduy river, there lived an old couple who used to install bubu keramba fish traps made of bamboo in the river to catch fish. one morning they went to the river to retrieve the fish trapped in the bubu, and were very surprised not to find the fish but a basket stuck on the bubu, they found the baby adorable, they took the baby home, took care of him and loved him like their own child.
with the passage of time the baby grew into a beautiful young man who accompanied hunting parents in the forest.One day they saw a bird and a monkey.
"what are birds and monkeys, father?"
"the bird is called the young and the monkey is the woman, my son."
"in that case, call me the young lady." the old man agreed because the meaning of the two words matched the character of the child.
one day he asked his parents why he was different from other boys from the village and why they respected him so much. then the old man told him that he had been carried away by the river to the village in a basket and not the son of the village.
"your parents must have been ghoulish nobles."
"in that case, I have to go there in search of my biological parents, father."
"that's right, but you have to go with a friend in that basket there's an egg. Take it, go to the forest and find a fowl to hatch that egg."
ciung wanara took the egg, went into the forest as instructed by the old man, but he could not find any fowl. he finds a good nagawiru to him and who offers him to hatch the egg.he lays the egg under the dragon and shortly after hatching, the chicks grow quickly. ciung Wanara put him in a basket, left his parents and wife and began his journey to galuh.
in the galuh capital, cockfighting is a major sporting event, both the king and his people love it. The king of barma wijaya has a large and invincible rooster named the jeling. in his vanity, the king of the, he stated that he would grant any wish to the chicken owner who could defeat his champion cock.
when he arrived, the young ciung wanara had grown into a strong fighting chicken. While the ciung wanara was looking for the owner of the basket, he took part in the royal cockfighting tournament. the news of the young boy whose rooster always wins at cockfighting finally reaches the ears of prabu barma wijaya who then orders uwa batara lengser to find the young man. the old man soon realized that the young chicken owner was the son of the long-lost goddess naganingrum, especially when the young woman showed him the basket in which he had been washed into the river. uwa batara lengser told the woman that the king had ordered it in addition to accusing her mother of giving birth to a dog.
"if your cock wins against the king's cock, just ask him half of the kingdom as your prize."
the next morning the ciung wanara appeared in front of the prabu barma wijaya and told what had been proposed lengser. the king agreed because he was sure of the victory of his rooster called the jeling. the jeling is slightly larger than the rooster ciung wanara, but the ciung wanara chicken is stronger because it is watered by the dragon nagawiru, the king's cock lost its life in the fight and the king was forced to fulfill his promise to give the woman half of his kingdom.
civil war
ciung Wanara became king of half kingdom and built iron prison built to lock the bad guys.ciung wanara planned a scheme to punish prabu barma jaya and dewi pangrenyep. one day the prabu barma jaya and the goddess pangrenyep were invited by the female cleric to come and inspect the newly built prison.When they were inside, the wanara ciung closed the door and locked them inside. he then told the people in the kingdom about the evil deeds of barma and pangrenyep, the people cheered.
however, hariang banga, the son of the goddess pangrenyep, became saddened to learn of his mother's arrest.he devised a plan of rebellion, gathered many soldiers and led a war against his sister, he attacked the ciung wanara and his followers. ciung wanara and hariang banga are strong princes and highly skilled in the martial art of pencak silat. but the wanara ciung managed to push the hariang banga to the banks of the brebes river. The battle continued without anyone winning. suddenly appeared the king of the prabu permana in Kusumah accompanied by the queen goddess naganingrum and uwa batara lengser.
"hariang banga and ciung wanara!" the king said, "stop this battle is pamali ("tabu" or "forbidden" in sundanese and Javanese) - fight against your own brother.You are brothers, you are brothers, you two are my children who will rule in this land, the women in galuh and the hariang banga east of the river brebes, the new country. may this river be the boundary and change its name from the river brebes to the river pamali to remind you both that it is pamali to fight your own brother. let the goddesses pangrenyep and barma wijaya who were once barbarians be imprisoned for their sins." since then the name of this river is known as cipamali (sundanese language) or kali pemali (javanese language) which means "pamali river".
hariang banga moved to the east and was known as jaka susuruh.he founded the kingdom of Java and became the king of Java, and his loyal followers became the ancestors of the Javanese. ciung wanara ruled the galuh kingdom fairly, the people are Sundanese, since then galuh and java prospered again as in the prabu permana period in kusumah, ciung wanara sang this legend in the form of sunda pantun, while his brother headed east by doing the same, singing this epic story in the form of a song.