The Legend of Batu Banama
Long long time ago there lived a beautiful young mother whose name was
Bawi Kuwu. Her husband died when her son was still very young. So she had to work hard to
bring up the child and to ear living for her family.
Once when the mother was cooking rice she got angry with the child
because he was naughty, so she hit the son on his head that caused a cut on it.
It is said that this area at that time was by
the sea, so people from another islands often dropped at this village where the woman and
her son lived.
After being hit by his mother the son got
afraid of her. He escaped from home to a ship which was dropping in the village and then
with other sailors he left the village. His mother did not know this.
Fortunately, one of the traders adpted the
boy and he and his wife brought him up. This boy frequently went along for journey to
other countries with his father. When his father was too old to go on his trading business
he handed the business to the boy because he entrusted his own business to him.
To his very often visits to other countries,
he did not remember much about his past childhood anymore, while he himself now had become
a handsome man. One day he saw a beautiful woman in a village and since he was handsome
and rich, it was easy for him to marry her. Then they got married but he did not know that
the woman was actually Bawi Kuwu, his own mother. Then the ship was in a big storm, it
sunk while the new couple was in it and at last the ship became stone.
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