this is one story that is in the city of Tapaktuan also better known as Dragon City comes from a legend of Dragon Princess and Tuan Tapa. The story of the legend has become an oral story down to the citizens of Tapaktuan City. The atmosphere will also be felt since we entered Tapaktuan City, a dragon painting on a roadside wall.
This legend tells the story of two dragons who were expelled from China for not having offspring. The pair of dragons inhabit a bay that is now famous for Tuantapa Bay. One day a pair of dragons found a baby girl floating in the middle of the ocean, then a pair of dragons caring for the baby with affection and growing up to be a very beautiful daughter One day when a ship came from the kingdom of Asranaloka from India who had lost her daughter, the king recognize the girl as her baby who was swept away by sea water and was about to ask her back to a pair of dragons. But a pair of dragons refused and there was a fight between the king and the pair of dragons. In the fight, Tapa Tapa is disturbed in his hermitage trying to break the fight and ask the dragon to restore the princess. However, a pair of dragons refuse and invite to fight Mr. Tapa. There was a fight between Mr. Tapa, a pair of dragons and a pair of dragons were defeated and the princess returned to his parents. The princess was dubbed the Dragon Princess and returned with her family, but the king's family did not return to the Asranaloka Kingdom but settled on the coast. Their existence is believed to be the forerunner of the Tuantapa community.
The male dragon was killed by a broken body, his heart and body were destroyed in a heart-shaped black rock and now known as the Black Stone. The blood of the nagapun turns into a stone known as the Red stone. Tapa Tapa also left footprints that still exist on the coast, sticks and sorbanya petrified black a few hundred meters from footprints. Seeing the male dragon die, the female dragon rages and divides the island into two now known as Pulau Dua. Pulau Terbesarpun became the target of dragons raging female dragons and devastated the island to 99 small islands. The small island is called Pulau Banyak in Aceh Singkil district.
After that incident, Mr. Tapa fell into pain, then died in Ramadan 4th year of Hijriyah. His body was buried near Mount Lamp, in front of Tuo Mosque, Gampong Padang, Padang Village, Tapaktuan Sub-district. Until now the tomb is often visited by pilgrims from within and abroad. His tomb itself experienced several refurbishments during the Dutch East Indies Government.
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