The Legend Of Keong Emas

The Legend of Keong Mas is one of cerita Panji, folktales popular in East and Central Java. The Legend describes the romance, the separation, and reunion of raden Panji asmoro bangun and Dewi Sekartaji. It all starts of the King Antah Berantah kingdom wishes to make Dewi sekartaji his wife and to do so he kidnapped her . Fortunately, the god narada saved Dewi Sekartaji by changing her into a golden snail : Keong Mas. The gold told Keong Emas to drift along the river in order to find her husband, Panji Asmoro Bangun.

One day a poor old widow, mbok Rondo Dadapan , who always fished along the river, found the golden snail and took it home. There , she put the snail in a jar and took good care of it. All of sudden, unexpected good things took place in mbok Rondo's live.

Coming back from her daily fishing , she would find delicious dishes on table and the house cleaned. She wondered who bad been so nice to take care of her house and to do the cooking.
When this went on for several days, she could not resist the temptation to find out who the mysterious kind person was. So, one day, instead of fishing, she peeped through a hole in the wall of her house.

To her amazement she saw a beautiful pincess coming out of the jar and starting to clean the house and preparing a meal.

The next day, the same happened. Without wasting any time mbok Rondo rushed into the house and smashed the jar. Homelles Dewi Sekartaji could not turn back into a snail. She was then adopted by mbok Rondo.

Meanwhile, Raden panji amoroi Bangun, searching for his wife, wandered from one village to another, finally reaching Dadapan where he found his beloved wife. Filled with happines and love, thewy went back to their kingdom, taking along good mbok Rondo.