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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Danau Kerinci - Jambi


Lake
Kerinci is the second largest lake in Sumatra. Its beauty has always been associated with a legend of the Kerinci. Is Calupat and Calungga two orphaned twin brothers who live at the foot of Mount Kerinci. They have a heritage Pomegranate Red and White Stone legacy of his parents. Calungga went hunting one day alone, the way he finds a giant egg. The eggs were then taken home to show to his brother but it turns Calungga Calupat decided to eat the eggs alone. After eating a giant egg, Calungga Calungga thirst thirst but it turns out differently. He drank the river water around Mount Kerinci which caused the river to be dry. Calungga body changed over time, elongated and has golden scales of nyiru.

Calungga
turn into a giant dragon with a ruby red stone on his head Mustika. To test his power, the Dragon Calungga appealed to all the gods in the earth's natural magic in order to inundate the Kerinci valley with water, forming a large lake. Round the dragon's body forms a lake which is now called Lake Bento at the foot of Mount Kerinci. Calupat Calungga sister was unable to live alone, he asked her to the dragon Calungga township residents in the east the sun rises so that it can coexist with the population. Then blown by the dragon's mouth with a powerful wind which had now become a river named Wind River Estuary (Sungai Batang Merangin). Then the water is shrinking due to the dragon drifted downstream to the East Calungga that changed into a so-called Renah Kerinci valley and a lake that is Lake Kerinci now. At the time of their arrival in front of a large population along the river, Calupat sitting on a dragon's head. Then the population was also immediately crowned as the king who holds Calupat Sang Hyang Jaya Dragon.




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