Once there
lived a beautiful princess named Dewi Sanggalangit. She was from a well-known kingdom
located in Kediri. The princess was not only beautiful but also had a pleasant
personality that made a lot of princes and kings from surrounding kingdoms
wanted to make her as a wife. Unfortunately, the princess didn’t want yet to
get married, and this made her parents confused. Her parents had already wanted
to have their own grandchildren. Then one day, the king said to the princess.
“My
daughter, you have rejected so many marriage proposal from princes and
kingdoms. Dot you want to get married and have a family of your own?” asked the
king
“Father”
answered the princess, “I really don’t want to get married from now. I still
enjoy of my own company right now.”
“But your
mother have said to me that she really wants to have a grandchild from you”
said the king
The princess
didn’t give any respond as the king finished talking. She went silent for a
moment. Then, she said
“If that
what you and mother want, I will make it happen. I will accept someone as my
husband as long as he meets my requirements” said the princess.
“What is the
requirement, then? Asked the king.
“I don’t know
yet” answered the princess shorty.
“That sounds
odd. How come?’ asked the king confusedly.
“I don’t know.
I will meditate in a quiet place to ask God what requirement I should ask to”
explained the princess.
Then the
princess went to meditate for three days asking for a sign. In the next
following morning, after the princess had done meditating, the princess came to
her father.
“Father, the
man that wants to be my husband should be able to give an interesting show. A
show that has never been shown before. The show has to be accompanied by
gamelan, and also four hundreds twin horses where those horse will guard me and
my husband in my wedding procession. And the last requirement is that my
husband should be able to bring a two-headed animal.”
“What a
complicated requirement is that” said the king as he heard what his daughter
wanted. But, even though he thought that her daughter had given a complicated
requirement, he still announce what her daughter wanted to his people, and also
to the neighborhood kingdoms.”
People were
so excited when the king gave the announcement but as the king recited the requirement
the princess had given, much of them gave the white flag, because the thought
the it is impossible to meet the requirement.
Among them,
there were two people that still wanted to marry the princess and said that
they can find all the requirement needed. They were King Singabarong from
Lodaya kingdom and King Swandana from Bandarangin kingdom.
The king was
not so pleased when he know that the remaining men was those king as he knew
that King Singabarong has a weird and ugly looking as he had a lion head and
King Swandana had even more weird personality. It is known that King Swandana
likes boys. He thought that boys were like girls. But the king couldn’t do
anything as he and his wife really wanted to see their daughter get married.
Raja
Singabarong then asked his people to look for all the requirement asked by the princess.
The mission was led by Iderlaka, a man that he trusted most. Besides led the
mission to look for the requirement, he also had to find the information about
what the King Singaborang’s opponents had been doing to find the requirement.
Then one
day, after having done doing his investigation, Iderlaka came to meet King
Singabora.
“My king, I have
investigated King Swandana”
“So, what
have you found” asked King Singabarong impatiently
“I saw that
the king had prepared an amazing show that I have never seen before just what the
princess asked. Then, he also had collected more than a hundred twin horses”
“How about
the two-headed animal. Have he found it” asked king Singabarong worriedly.
“Fortunately,
I didn’t see any two-headed animal. I think he haven’t found it yet” said
Iderlaka
“Are you
sure Iderlaka?”
“Yes, My
majesty. I am really sure about that”.
The king was
so angry and worried as he heard his opponent almost found all what the
princess wanted, while he hadn’t prepared anything yet, not even the show.
Then, the King Singabarong planned to attack the King Swandana and took all off
the preparation that he had prepared.
In the
following morning, the King Singabarong commanded few soldiers to come to the
King Swandana kingdom and disguise as a common people and get as much
information as they could get. After few days doing the investigation, the
soldiers returned to the Singabarong and told that King Swandana would visit
the Kediri kingdom and to visit the king and show the requirement he collected
so far.
King
Singabarong became more worried and he then asked the soldier again to obtain
information about the route that King Swandana would take. The King Singabarong
planned to attack him. The soldier then went to King Swandana kingdom again.
Few days has
passed since the leaving of the soldiers, and the King Singabarong was getting
worried as they didn’t return to the kingdom. Then the king called Iderlaka and
asked him to go to the King Swandana kingdom.
After
Iderlaka left, the king went to his garden to look for his bird. The bird was a
peacock. The bird would perch on his shoulder every time the king came. The
king would ask the bird to eat louses that were on his head. When the king
reached the garden, the bird then perched on his shoulder and it then pecked
the louses off the king Singabarong head. The King fell relax and he then fell
asleep.
Without
being know by people, or soldiers, or even king Singabarong, a large group of
king Swandana soldiers and the king himself were approaching the king Singabarong
kingdom. Iderlaka and the previous soldiers sent had been actually killed as
they had been red-handed investigating.
When the
group approached the kingdom, the fights happened. The soldiers from King
Singabarong kingdom were defeated and King Swandana successfully broke into the
kingdom and he found that the King Singabarong was in his garden. King
Singabarong was waken as he heard the noises outside. And he quickly learned
that he was in dangerous.
“Hey,
Singabarong, you have sent your people to steal information about the requirement
I had prepared, haven’t you?” screamed the King Swandana
King
Singabarong grinned
“So you already
know, Good!” said king Singabarong
“How dare
you” said King Swandana when he noticed that there was something the king’s
shoulder and it looked like as though it was a two-headed animal. The king then
flew and used his power to attack king Singabarong. As the power hit the king,
the king Singabarong and the peacock became one and turned to be an animal. The
king then took his whip and whipped it to the animal, the animal then died and
the king took it outside.
After the
fight, the king continued his journey to Kediri kingdom to meet the king and
his daughter. As he reached the kingdom, King Swandana gave all the
requirements asked by the princess. Knowing that he could meet all the
requirements, the princess accepted the king to be her husband. Despite the
King Swandana habit that like boys, the princess still loved him and will
turned him to like a woman again.
The wedding
ceremony then was held and the show that King Swandana gave was later known as “Reog”.
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