Batu Golog ( Nusa Tenggara Barat )

Pada jaman dahulu di daerah Padamara dekat Sungai Sawing hiduplah sebuah keluarga miskin. Sang istri bernama Inaq Lembain dan sang suami bernama Amaq Lembain. Mata pencaharian mereka adalah buruh tani. Setiap hari mereka berjalan kedesa desa menawarkan tenaganya untuk menumbuk padi. Kalau Inaq Lembain menumbuk padi maka kedua anaknya menyertai pula. Pada suatu hari, ia sedang asyik menumbuk padi. Kedua anaknya ditaruhnya diatas sebuah batu ceper didekat tempat ia bekerja.

Anehnya, ketika Inaq mulai menumbuk, batu tempat mereka duduk makin lama makin menaik. Merasa seperti diangkat, maka anaknya yang sulung mulai memanggil ibunya: "Ibu batu ini makin tinggi." Namun sayangnya Inaq Lembain sedang sibuk bekerja. Dijawabnya, "Anakku tunggulah sebentar, Ibu baru saja menumbuk."

Begitulah yang terjadi secara berulang-ulang. Batu ceper itu makin lama makin meninggi hingga melebihi pohon kelapa. Kedua anak itu kemudian berteriak sejadi-jadinya. Namun, Inaq Lembain tetap sibuk menumbuk dan menampi beras. Suara anak-anak itu makin lama makin sayup. Akhirnya suara itu sudah tidak terdengar lagi.

Batu Goloq itu makin lama makin tinggi. Hingga membawa kedua anak itu mencapai awan. Mereka menangis sejadi-jadinya. Baru saat itu Inaq Lembain tersadar, bahwa kedua anaknya sudah tidak ada. Mereka dibawa naik oleh Batu Goloq.

Inaq Lembain menangis tersedu-sedu. Ia kemudian berdoa agar dapat mengambil anaknya. Syahdan doa itu terjawab. Ia diberi kekuatan gaib. dengan sabuknya ia akan dapat memenggal Batu Goloq itu. Ajaib, dengan menebaskan sabuknya batu itu terpenggal menjadi tiga bagian. Bagian pertama jatuh di suatu tempat yang kemudian diberi nama Desa Gembong olrh karena menyebabkan tanah di sana bergetar. Bagian ke dua jatuh di tempat yang diberi nama Dasan Batu oleh karena ada orang yang menyaksikan jatuhnya penggalan batu ini. Dan potongan terakhir jatuh di suatu tempat yang menimbulkan suara gemuruh. Sehingga tempat itu diberi nama Montong Teker.

Sedangkan kedua anak itu tidak jatuh ke bumi. Mereka telah berubah menjadi dua ekor burung. Anak sulung berubah menjadi burung Kekuwo dan adiknya berubah menjadi burung Kelik. Oleh karena keduanya berasal dari manusia maka kedua burung itu tidak mampu mengerami telurnya.

(Cerita ini diadoptasi secara bebas dari I Nengah Kayun dan kawan-kawan, "Batu Goloq," Cerita Rakyat Nusa Tenggara Barat, Jakarta: Departemen P dan K, 1981, hal. 21-25).

 

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in English

In antiquity in the area near the river sawing Padamara lived a poor family. The wife named Inaq Lembain and her husband named Amaq Lembain. Their livelihoods are agricultural laborers. Every day they walk kedesa village offers strength to pound rice. If Inaq Lembain pound rice it came with her two children as well. One day, he was busy pounding rice. Both children put on a flat rock near where she works.
Surprisingly, when Inaq began to pound, where they sat stone grew upward. Feel like removed, then his eldest son started calling his mother: "Mother is the higher rocks." But unfortunately Inaq Lembain was busy working. He answered, "My son just wait a minute, she was just pounding."
That happened repeatedly. A flat stone is increasingly rising to more than a coconut tree. The second boy then cried uncontrollably. However, Inaq Lembain still busy pounding and winnowing rice. Children's voices grew faint. Finally, the voice was not heard again.
Stone Goloq it higher and higher. Up to bring the children reach the clouds. They were crying uncontrollably. Only then did Inaq Lembain realized, that her children are gone. They were taken up by Stone Goloq.
Inaq Lembain sobbed. He then prayed to be able to pick up her son. Syahdan prayer was answered. He was given supernatural powers. with his belt he will be able to chop it Goloq Stone. Magically, the stone was cut with severed his belt into three parts. The first section fell in a place which later was named the Village Gembong olrh because the soil there shaking. The second part falls in the place called Dasan Stone because there are people who witnessed the fall of a fragment of this stone. And the last piece to fall in a place that give rise to a roar. So the place was named Montong Teker.
While the children did not fall to earth. They have been turned into a two-tailed birds. The eldest son turned into a bird and her sister Kekuwo Kelik turned into birds. Because both are derived from humans, the two birds were not able to incubate their eggs.
(The story is freely adapted from I Nengah Kayun and his friends, "Stone Goloq," Folklore of West Nusa Tenggara, Jakarta: Ministry of P and K, 1981, p. 21-25).