Once upon a time stood a kingdom of Kutatanggeuhan that ruled by a wise king named Prabu Suarnalaya. Kutatanggeuhan was blessed with its prosperous land so people of Kutatanggeuhan really grateful they could eat by planting many kind of seeds in there. Under his ruling period all the country live happily and always at peace.
Despite the happiness and joy his
people felt, the king was sad. Twenty years had passed since his mariage with
his wife, yet both of them still not had a kid. Many people gave him the
advices but none of them were worked. They gave up and told their king to
adopted a child. Prabu Suarnalaya rejected that idea and went to mountain Gede
to meditate. On his second day of meditating came an angel in front of him and
suggested that Prabu Suarnalaya better be home because his fate has already
been decided and he wouldn’t have a heir in his marriage. He refused to go home
and stayed there.
On the second week, he almost
giving up, until he heard a voice calling him and asked him if he really wanted
to have a child. He said yes and promised would leave until someone granted his
wish. The demon of the Ciburial’s water spring said that he would granted his
wish and gave him a child made from the water spring he owned. But there was a
condition, that he must not ever hurt or even yelled at his child no matter
what the circumstance was, or else he would lose his child for eternity. The king
made a promise to love his child and always made his child happy. The demon
told him to go home and waited his child to be born from his wife’s womb.
A couple of months later, the
queen was pregnant. This news bring happiness within the kingdom. Nine months
later born a beautiful girl named Nyi Ajeng Gilang Rinukmi, she often called
Putri Ayu Kencana Ungu. Day by day the
princess grew up spoiled by her parents. Everything she desired would be given.
That made her become a naughty child since she was a little. Even the king was
getting tired of her behaviour. The king and the queen didn’t dare scolding her
because they afraid they would break their promise to the demon they made deal
of.
On her seventeen birthday,
princess Ayu Kencana, wanted to have a big celebration for her birthday. The king
tried to get the best jewel for his daughter. On her birthday everyone from the
country celebrated her, and she received a present from their parents. When she
opened it, there was a necklace made from colorful stones that tied together. Princess
Ayu Kencana pouted and stated that what she wanted was a necklace made from
gold and diamond, not the one made from depraved stone she got, and threw it
into her mother’s face. That was the last straw for the king to finally lost
his patience. He yelled at her of how ungrateful child she was and ordered her
to apologize to her mother.
Princess Ayu Kencana was startled
because that was the first time she saw her father got so angry. Not long after
that, the sky turned dark, the rain poured heavily. The water from the river
began to rise up and drown the whole kingdom. Slowly, the princess’s body
united with the water. Melting like an ice cube. The king tried to reach her
daughter, but his effort was fruitless. Princess Ayu Kencana was gone. The whole
kingdom disappeared drown by stream. The kingdom became a lake. The color of
the lake always change, sometime it turned green, blue, yellow, or reddish. And
legend had it that the change of color of the lake was caused by the colorful
stone from the necklace princess Ayu Kencana owned.
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