lalap (raw vegetables with chili condiment) and rice. The reunion and impossible task Sangkuriang suffered amnesia as a result of being hit in the head by his mother and slowly loses all memory of her. After running away from home, he met a powerful wise hermit who adopted him and taught him pencak silat (martial arts) as well as supernatural skills to control the guriang, a type of hyang spirit. Sangkuriang grew up to be a handsome, strong man who puts his strength to good use by helping villagers in their fights against bandits and other troublemakers. Despite his carefree life, fate would intervene when he saw a beautiful girl in front of a small cottage on his way home through the forest. They started chatting and then spent more and more time together, eventually falling in love and made plans to marry. Never once did Sangkuriang recognised the cottage to be his childhood home and the beautiful girl to be his own mother. One day before the planned wedding, Dayang Sumbi was brushing Sangkuriang's hair when she recognised a scar on Sangkuriang's head. All the pieces fell together and she suddenly realized that she had fallen in love with her own son who had left her 12 years previously. Horrified, she knew immediately she could not marry her own son and revealed the whole truth to Sangkuriang and begged him to call off the wedding. But Sangkuriang did not believe her and insisted on going through with the wedding. Dayang Sumbi tried to further discourage Sangkuriang by presenting what she thought would be some impossible tasks for Sangkuriang to do as her conditions to marry him. First, Sangkuriang had to build her a great lake by filling the whole valley with water and then she asked for a boat so both of them could sail in it into the lake. The catch was that both tasks had to be completed in one night. Sangkuriang accepted the challenge and with the help of some guriangs (heavenly spirits or gods in ancient Sundanese belief), he dammed the Citarum river with landslides. The river's water rose and filled the plain, transforming it into a lake. Then, Sangkuriang completed his second part of Dayang Sumbi's conditions by cutting down a massive tree to make a boat. When dawn broke, Sangkuriang had almost completed building the boat and this mortified Dayang Sumbi who had