Folklore And Fairy Tales

Lipan Lake

Lipan Lake is located in Muara Kaman district, approximately 120 km from Tenggarong, East Kalimantan upstream. Unlike the lake in general, Lake Lipan is not a place of a collection of water but rather a vast field and overgrown with shrubs and shrubs. When dry, this lake really looks like a field, but during the rainy season and heavy rains sometimes river water overflows so that Lake Lipan looks like a lake in general.

This lake also has a legend that developed in the local community. Known, the area was once an ocean and the edge was called Berubus, while Muara Kaman Village was known as the Continent of Lawas. At that time, there was a very crowded and often visited government. This is because the kingdom is located right on the beach.

The kingdom was very famous for the existence of a very beautiful princess who lived there. Princess Aji Bloody White was her name. The Princess had something unusual from the others. When he ate betel and drank his water, then the red betel water seemed to flow in his throat.

The beauty and uniqueness of the Princess is almost known by all other kingdoms out there. Until often the Princess is proposed by the King of a foreign kingdom. However, the results were nil, Putru Aji Bloody White rejected all the proposals. Until, Tibalah A King and his soldiers from the Chinese kingdom on the sea front of the palace Aji Bloody White with his big jung. Just like the King who previously came, the King of China also wanted to propose to Princess Aji Bloody White.

Before the King conveyed his proposal, the King was treated with a variety of dishes that were very much and delicious by Princess Aji Bloody White. However, he did not know that the Princess was actually testing herself. Princess Aji Bloody White is not only beautiful, but also smart and wise. How disgusted the Princess was when she saw the Chinese king eating. He ate his food not using his hands but directly with his mouth like an animal.

Rejection and humiliation that was thrown from the lips of Princess Aji Bloody White also made the anger of the King of China peak. Already rejected application raw, humiliated anyway. Because the King of China was so angry, he used violent means to make Princess Aji Bloody White submit to him. He went to his great jungle and returned with his many soldiers.

A terrible war also broke out between the armies of the White-Bloody Aji kingdom and the Chinese army. Chinese troops came more and more from the sea so that the army of the White Blooded Aji kingdom was overwhelmed to fend off attacks after attacks from Chinese soldiers.

Princess Aji Bloody White who witnessed this war felt sad and furious as well. He predicted the war would be waged by Chinese troops, and this made him even more angry. The Princess immediately took the betel and ate it and said, “If indeed I am a descendant of the holy king, then turn my pieces into large centipedes that destroy the King of China and all his soldiers.”

After she finished saying, immediately the White-blooded Princess Aji spouted the piece from her mouth towards the place of the war split. When sprayed by the Princess, the pieces turned into thousands of giant centipedes ready to attack the King of China and all his soldiers who were raging.

One by one the mighty Chinese armies were destroyed. Soldiers who could not resist the force of the powerful centipede began to run pontang towards his jung and fled to avoid thousands of centipedes. The same thing happened to the King of China. However, when they tried to escape, the centipede continued to pursue the King and his army because it had been mediated to destroy the King of China and all his troops. Thousands of centipedes surged after the jungs of the King of China and his armies and annihilated them. The Jung they used was drowned by thousands of centipedes.