Dayang Sumbi

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Long time ago, there lived a beautiful woman named Dayang Sumbi

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Long time ago

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One day, she was quilting.

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One day

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Suddenly, her quilt fell off from her house.

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Suddenly

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She prayed to Gods, "If a man picks up my quilt, he will be my husband. If a woman, she will be my sister".

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Front

Then, a male dog picks it up. For keeping her words, she married the dog and called him Tumang. She gave birth to a baby, named him Sangkuriang, but never told him who his father was.

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1. 1. Then

2. 2. And

3. 3. But

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One day, Sangkuriang was hunting with Tumang in the forest and he found nothing. He blamed Tumang for the failure and killed him.

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1. 1. One day

2. 2. And

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When Dayang Sumbi knew that, she hit Sangkuriang's head with a big spoon and asked him to go away.

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1. 1. When

2. 2. and

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Many years later, Sangkuriang found a house in the forest and a beautiful woman was inside. The woman, Dayang Sumbi, recognized him as Sangkuriang.

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many years later, and

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He fell in love with her without knowing that she was his mother. He forced her to marry him. Dayang Sumbi could not accept it because they were mother and son.

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1. because

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She asked him an impossible requirement to marry her. He must build a big boat within a night and shall be finished by dawn.

Sangkuriang agreed and built it with the help of spirits.

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and