Cerita Si Rusa dan Si Kulomang

Si Rusa dan Si Kulomang

Pada jaman dahulu di sebuah hutan di kepulauan Aru, hiduplah sekelompok rusa. Mereka sangat bangga akan kemampuan larinya. Pekerjaan mereka selain merumput, adalah menantang binatang lainnya untuk adu lari. Apabila mereka itu dapat mengalahkannya, rusa itu akan mengambil tempat tinggal mereka.

Ditepian hutan tersebut terdapatlah sebuah pantai yang sangat indah. Disana hiduplah siput laut yang bernama Kulomang. Siput laut terkenal sebagai binatang yang cerdik dan sangat setia kawan. Pada suatu hari, si Rusa mendatangi si Kulomang. Ditantangnya siput laut itu untuk adu lari hingga sampai di tanjung ke sebelas. Taruhannya adalah pantai tempat tinggal sang siput laut.

Dalam hatinya si Rusa itu merasa yakin akan dapat mengalahkan si Kulomang. Bukan saja jalannya sangat lambat, si Kulomang juga memanggul cangkang. Cangkang itu biasanya lebih besar dari badannya. Ukuran yang demikian itu disebabkan oleh karena cangkang itu adalah rumah dari siput laut. Rumah itu berguna untuk menahan agar tidak hanyut di waktu air pasang. Dan ia berguna untuk melindungi siput laut dari terik matahari.

Pada hari yang ditentukan si Rusa sudah mengundang kawan-kawannya untuk menyaksikan pertandingan itu. Sedangkan si Kulomang sudah menyiapkan sepuluh teman-temannya. Setiap ekor dari temannya ditempatkan mulai dari tanjung ke dua hingga tanjung ke sebelas. Dia sendiri akan berada ditempat mulainya pertandingan. Diperintahkannya agar teman-temanya menjawab setiap pertanyaan si Rusa.

Begitu pertandingan dimulai, si Rusa langsung berlari secepat-cepatnya mendahului si Kulomang. Selang beberapa jam is sudah sampai di tanjung kedua. Nafasnya terengah-engah. Dalam hati ia yakin bahwa si Kulomang mungkin hanya mencapai jarak beberapa meter saja. Dengan sombongnya ia berteriak-teriak, “Kulomang, sekarang kau ada di mana?” Temannya si Kulomang pun menjawab, “aku ada tepat di belakangmu.” Betapa terkejutnya si Rusa, ia tidak jadi beristirahat melainkan lari tunggang langgang.

Hal yang sama terjadi berulang kali hingga ke tanjung ke sepuluh. Memasuki tanjung ke sebelas, si Rusa sudah kehabisan napas. Ia jatuh tersungkur dan mati. Dengan demikian si Kulomang dapat bukan saja mengalahkan tetapi juga memperdayai si Rusa yang congkak itu.

Kisah Nabi Adam Bahasa Inggris

Nabi Adam

Allah made the mountains and the seas. He made all the animals. He made the heavens and the stars.

He made the sun and the moon and he made the angels. The angels were like Allah's servants and did everything He ordered.

Then Allah decided to make a man. He called this first man Adam. He taught him many things so that Adam had more knowledge than the angels.

There was one Jinn, called Iblis and he thought he was better than Adam so Allah would not let him stay with the other angels. He was to be called 'Shaytan', the Devil.

Shaytan blamed Adam for what had happened to him and was very angry. Allah let Adam live in a beautiful place because he was good. The place was called Paradise.

It was a very nice place but Adam was a little lonely, on his own all of the time. Allah decided to help Adam. He made Hawa to be Adam's wife. They were happy and liked living in Paradise.

There was, however, one thing they were not allowed to do. There was a special tree and Allah had told them they must not eat any fruit from that tree.

At first Adam and Hawa were very good and kept away from the tree. Shaytan decided to do something very naughty. He told them they were silly to keep away from the tree. He said nothing would happen if they ate its fruit. He said the fruit was delicious and they should try it.

After a while they began to listen to Shaytan and thought they would have just a little taste of the fruit, just to see what it was like. Shaytan was very happy because he had made them disobey Allah. As soon as they had eaten the fruit, Adam and Hawa realised that they had been very naughty and they felt guilty for what they had done.

Allah forgave them But He wouldn't let them stay in Paradise any more So He sent them to live on earth.

Legenda Danau Toba Bahasa Inggris

Danau Toba

Once upon a time there was a prosperous village in a far away island called Sumatra. In northern part of the island, lived a farmer whose name was Toba. He lived alone in a hut by a small forest. He worked on his farmland to grow rice and vegetables that he sells to local market. Once day he wanted to catch some fish so he went to a river and fished there. He was very surprised when he got a big fish. The fish was as big as human being. Soon he went home and put the fish in his kitchen. He planned to cook the fish for his dinner that night. When he got to his house that afternoon he took a bath. Then as he walked into his bedroom after taking a bath Toba was very shocked. Do you want to know what happened?

There stood in his living room a very beautiful girl. The girl greeted him nicely. For a moment Toba was speechless. When he could control his emotion he asked her.

‘Who are you? What’s your name? Why suddenly you are here in my house?’

‘Pardon me if I surprised you Mr. Toba, but you took me here. I was the fish that you caught in the river. Now that I become a human being again, I would like to thank you and I will be your servant to express my thankfulness’

‘Were you the fish?’

‘Yes, I was the fish. Look at your kitchen’.

Toba immediately rushed to his kitchen and the fish was nowhere to be seen. He saw some gold coins instead.

‘Whose coins are these? Why there are some coins here?’

‘Those coins are mine. As I changed into human being my scales changed into gold coins’

‘Ok you can live here and work for me. Your room is over there’

‘Thank you very much Mr. Toba’

Since that day the beautiful girl lived in Toba’s house. Since she was very beautiful Toba fell in love with her and not long after that they got married. The girl married to Toba on one condition that he would never tell anybody about her past. Toba agreed to the condition. Several months later Toba’s wife delivered to a baby boy. Their son was healthy. Soon he grew up into a handsome boy. Toba named him Samosir. Unfortunately Samosir was a lazy boy. He did not want to work at all. When his father worked hard in his rice field and farm, Samosir just slept. When he was awake he talked a lot and he ate a lot. Toba was very disappointed with his son’s nature. He hoped that one day Samosir would change into a diligent boy. Day in and day out but Samosir never changed.

Toba used to go to his farm and rice field early in the morning. Then at midday his wife would bring him food. They used to eat lunch at their farm. As he was a teenager Toba and his wife tried to change his behavior. They ordered Samosir to bring food for his father for lunch while her mother stayed at home to do household chores. But Samosir never did his duty well. He always woke up very late. He woke up after midday. Then one day his mother forced him to bring the food.

‘Sam, wake up. Go to the farm and bring the food for your father. He must be very tired and hungry now’.

But Mom, I am tired and hungry too’

‘What makes you tired? You just wake up. Go now. You father needs the food’

Toba reluctantly went to the farm. But he did not go to the farm immediately. He stopped somewhere in the street and ate the food. It was already late afternoon when he got to the farm. His father was disappointed. Then he was angry as he realized that his son had eaten his food. He said sarcastically.

‘O, you are stupid lazy boy. You are son of a fish!’

Samosir was hurt. He went home right away and as he got home he told his mother about his father’s words. Samosir’s mother was shocked. She was also deeply hurt.

‘O Toba. You break your promise so I cannot live with you here anymore. Now you have to accept to consequence of what you did. Samosir, now go to the hill, find the tallest tree and climb it’

‘Why mom? What will happen?’

‘Just do it, never ask any question. Good bye’

As soon as she finished saying that suddenly the weather changed. Sunny day suddenly turned into cloudy day. Not long after that the rain poured heavily. The rain last for several days. Consequently the area was flooded. The whole area became a big lake. Then it was called Lake Toba and in the middle of the lake there is an island called Samosir Island. Meanwhile Toba’s wife disappeared.

Lake Toba is located in the province of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Today it becomes a tourist destination.