Sangkuriang is the hero of the most famous Sundanese landscape legend, the tale of Mount Tangkuban Parahu. Son of Dayang Sumbi and the divine dog Tumang, a god serving out a curse in animal form, he killed Tumang while hunting and, struck on the head by his grieving mother, was driven from home. Returning years later as a mighty man, he fell in love with the still-youthful Dayang Sumbi, not knowing her; when the scar on his head revealed the truth to her, she demanded as bride-price a dammed lake on the Citarum and a great boat, both finished in one night. With hosts of spirits he nearly succeeded, but Dayang Sumbi conjured a false dawn, and in fury he kicked the boat over, creating Mount Tangkuban Parahu, 'the overturned boat', above the plain of the former Lake Bandung. The pilgrim-poet of the Old Sundanese Bujangga Manik, passing Bukit Patenggeng around 1500, already knew the site as 'the memorial (sakakala) of Sang Kuriang, when he was going to dam the Citarum', making this one of the oldest datable Sundanese legends; the geologist R.W. van Bemmelen suggested the story preserves a folk memory of the volcanic damming and draining of the prehistoric Bandung lake. The tale's near-incest has invited comparison with the Oedipus story, and Jakob Sumardjo reads it as a Sundanese meditation on cosmic order violated and restored.