photo byMasrizal MochtarAirnya jernih, ikannya jinak.
- PERTIKAIAN ANTARA KAUM PIDARI DENGAN KAUM ADAT, YANG DITUNGGANGI PENJAJAH BELANDA
- PENDUDUKAN JEPANG
- PERANG KEMERDEKAAN 1945-1950
Tanjung Sungayang membuat pula dusun sekelilingnya :
Andalas, Barulak, Talago, Sungai Patai, Sungayang, Sawah Liat, dan Koto Ranah.
Tanjung Sungayang dengan Nan Tujuh Koto dinamai Permata Diatas Emas. Negeri ini dinamai juga bertanjung yang tiga dan berluhak yang tiga. Tanjung yang tiga yaitu dikepalai Tanjung Alam, ditengah Sungayang dan diekornya Tanjung Talawi.
Tourism object Batu Angkek-angkek (examine stone) in nagari, see the above photo
The peculiarity and history of Batu Angkek-angkek.
Strange but evident, a stone that purpotedly can become a size for known your desire or willing.
Your desire or wlling can be granted if you lift this stone.
But if your desire or wlling not be granted, don't hope you can lift it.
The name of the stone is strange, it is Batu "Angkek-Angkek" or "Batu Ujian".
In Minangkabau language, means "Lift Stone" or "Examine Stone". The other people named the stone is "Batu Palagan", because the stone be located in the Palagans village.
Palagan, it's mean battle's area.
The stone was found in Datuk Bandaro Kayo's house from Piliang clan.
Location of the stone about 8 kilometer from Batusangkar, town the capital of Tanah Datar Distric in front of SD 1 Tanjuang.
The stone like a turtle, there exist some letters that can't be readed or meaned by people.
Someone who will know his desire or willing to be come true or not must lift up the stone by requisite take "wudhu" special for the moslem, that is wash your face, hand, hair, ears and your feet, each of them three times, and then you can inside the place of the stone.
After that you must sit with the knees bent look out to direction Mecca, then burns the kemenyan or incence derived from gum benzoin, and said kind of your God, special for Mosleem says: Bissmillahirromanirrohim and sholawat three times.
Then you must round the stone by your hands, and you can take smoke of kemenyan and wipe with to your face, each of them three times.
Then you must admid while take hold of the stone and pray with God.
After that you lift the stone to your lap.
If desire or willing to be come true, the stone willbe lifted easyly.
But if the desire not be come true, you can't even lift to you lap, let alone rub against.
Follow of Datuk Bandaro Kayo, for the people who's not moslem may lifting the stone agree with their religion.
The "Batu angkek-angkek was found about 500 years ago.
That stone was found by Datuk Bandaro Kayo's family when they want to build the village, which that palace still forest.
When Datuk Bandaro Kayo and his groups will cleaning that place for building emergency cottage, but the he stick in the first pole to land, so, the stone ha stricken and then become an oddity.
In that location suddenly became rain while sun is shining, local earthquake and hurrifying thunderbold.
And that more cause amazement members of the group, from the hole which place of the pole has stick in suddently dispersed colourfull light during 24 days 14 nights.
On the 14th day, the members of the groups make profitable to moved cottage to another place, but at that time they hearing a voice that came from the hole that said the stone which was found in the hole in order to lifted in the cottage, then smoking by white kemenyan and so building a village there and namely "Kampuang Palagan".
When the place of the stone has digged, they found stone struck together. When a piece of stone will be take up , the another piece vanish to the earth, and a piece which still left has taken to the cottage.
Datuk Bandaro Kayo said that Batu Angkek-angkek protected by the man whose has clean light face and young.
He use white wear such a robe. However that man can't seen by general people.
According to some people there, that stone can help sickman and protect the ricefield from paddy borer.
Before leaving that place put there some rice, or eggs, or aromatics flowers, or you can pu money for religious meal.
Don't make make wrong desire, like lucky number for gamble.
For women who are menstruation don't lift the stone.
Believe or not, it depend on yours.
