B649 Story: how the ant-eater defeated the king's hunting dog, Asu Belanguyang.

TIGER; FOREST; FOLAIGE-FILL; TIPPED-UP; FRAMING TREE; SNAKE; HUNT;

Forest. C: cave with monkeys, wild animals such as tiger, deer. Top: men with dogs.

FILE: TEXTB649\n\nASOE BELANGOEIJANG\n\n(dictated by I B M Togog)\n(26 July 1937)\n\nIda Sang Peraboe Dalem had a dog named Belangoeijang. He was the king of the dogs. When on a hunt, any animal that I Belangoeijang saw was unable to run away. They all were as if tied up so that they couldn't move.\n\nSo all the animals in the forest were troubled (kesebetan). What kinds of them were they? Lions, tigers, bulls, boars, deer, stags. All of these kinds of animals were afraid when they met I Belangoeijang.\n\nSo they held a meeting (paoem) to talk about their troubles, all the animals. They all asked one another,\n\nWell, who is able to oppose (ngadokan daija) and kill I Belangoeijang? All of us will treat as our lord (megoesti) anyone who can kill I Belangoeijang. said the Tiger, and all the animals agreed.\n\nSo then the Anteater (I Kelisih) said, Well, if what you say is true, if you truly speak, I can do it. But if after I Belangoeijang is dead, don't you change (lenjok) what you say, or you will die (apang tjai mati labuh). Do you dare?\n\nAnd the Tiger answered, I dare. All of my descendants (aseterehan itjang), and all the kin of all the animals, will treat your descendants as their lord (magoesti).\n\nWell, if that so, wait for me here in this cave. Now I'll go to the palace, the palace of Sang Perboe Dalem.\n\nNo need to tell, he went there to the palace. He found Ida Sang Peraboe in the palace. So then the Anteater went very quietly and smoothly, and made his body very small so that he could hide, so that no one would see him, not even the dog in the palace would see him. When he got inside the palace he went along the wall to the garden (taman) and he found Ida Sang Peraboe in the garden. He was in the midst of chopping up for cooking (mebat) the meat from the hunt. So then he climbed up on the wall of the bale. And then he hid above the lentaten (?).\n\nWhen Ida Sang Praboe was finished cooking and was about to eat, his dog sat right next to him, watchfully looking all around, right next to Sang Praboe while he was eating. And next to Ida Sang Peraboe were a great many weapons - arrows, baskets, chopping block and machete. So after he had washed his hands, he\n\nopened up the food. Just then the dog barked. The Praboe\nthought it was because he smelled the food. And just then the Anteater up above the Praboe made a little rubbing noise. And the dog barked and jumped up.\n\nAnd all the food fell down. Without thinking, the Praboe grabbed the machete and cut the head off the dog. He killed him.\n\nThat's why all the animals give their respect (magoesti) to the Anteater. Because they had made the oath together. None of them dare do anything wrong to the Anteater, or they'd die. (sira dja poeroen ring I Kelisih leboer baksa apang mati oeloeng (?).