Jaka Tarub and Submerged Continent

Jakarta - Of course you still remember tales Jake Tarub angel peeking 7 bath instead? This fairy tale turned out to save the message about the continent that sank in Indonesia in the past.
This was disclosed Professor Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University, London, through his book Eden in the East: Drowning in the Continent of Southeast Asia. According to Oppenheimer, when the world just to share stories about the great flood of Noah, people in Southeast Asia instead have a more complete tale.
They not only have the tales of floods, but also a chaotic tale about life after the flood. Oppenheimer called it a kind of chaos on earth.
According to Oppenheimer, all Southeast Asian-themed fairy tale in the sun and moon, is the continuation of the tales about the flood. This is because a number of flood stories told foggy conditions or situations where those who survived could not see the sun and moon for some time.
So the appearance of the sun and the moon the first time after a disaster is considered a blessing from the gods. So was born the myths of creation or cosmogony, including the emergence of the sun and moon.
Well, Jake Tarub tale of Java into the fairy tale appearance of the moon. Fairy tales usually take the metaphor of women bathing in the lake. As we've ever heard as a child, Jake Tarub is a young man who peered fairy tale paradise bathed in the lake. In his book, Oppenheimer called Kyai the Great, one version of the name Jake Tarub.
Fairy tales Tarub Jake had appeared also in Bali, Brunei, Sarawak, Maluku, Barito, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu in the Pacific islands. Even the women's bath tale appears also in Japan.
According to Oppenheimer, nymph bathing in the lake is a metaphor for the appearance of the moon whose light bounces on the surface of the water. Metaphors matter of months is also strengthened by the number of angels that usually there are 7, which actually shows the Pleiades constellation marking the planting season.
Metaphors about this month clearly evident in the story of Jake Tarub. The name of an angel who married Jake Tarub is Nawang Wulan. Wulan name obviously refers to the moon. Nawang Wulan and all his friends totaled seven fairies.
Related tales of drowned continent of Southeast Asia, more fully peeled Oppenheimer in a book published this Press horizon.