Once upon a time in Batak land lived a fisherman named Batara Guru
Sahala. He caught a fish that could talk one day. As a tough fisherman, he went
out fishing every morning. One day, he caught unusual fish in his old fishing
net. It was unusual fish as the fish could talk. He was very surprised to find
out that the fish could talk like human. To his more surprised, the fish asked
him to set it free back to the river. He could do nothing except to agree and
soon he set it free back to the river.
To his another surprising as soon as
he set the fish free back to the river, it changed into a beautiful woman. She
was with long black hair and big round eyes. “she was really beautiful,” Sahala
thought. He finally fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. He
promised to be faithful and would take care of her day and night. The woman
agreed to marry with him with one very important promise from her to utter. She
would marry him if he could keep a promise not to let anyone know that she was
once fish. Sahala agreed and promised to do so, and would always hold up the
deal.
They were happily married, and got
two beautiful smart daughters. Sahala went fishing every morning as he was a
fisherman and his daughters always came to bring him food and drink. Day by
day, he was very happy and enjoyed the food and drink very much while fishing.
Unfortunately, one day he was very unhappy. He was very angry to his daughters
as they ate up the food and drink instead of serving it to his father. He was
so upset and got very angry. His uncontrolled emotion blew up and came out
dirty words from his mouth. He shouted, “You behaved exactly like the daughters
of a fish!”
The two daughters didn’t understand what
their father was talking about. They didn’t understand why he said like that to
them. Therefore, they soon went home and told everything to their mother. Their
mother was very annoyed and didn’t feel to well with the situation. And not
long after that, Sahala came home to explain everything, and apologized to his
wife. He realized everything about what he just said to his daughters and
begged to her pardon. It seemed his crying didn’t work. His wife didn’t care
too much to his apology. She could not forgive Sahala, as he had broken his
promise. Another unusual thing occurred! She trembled severely and everything
around them was shaking. The earth began to shake and the volcano began to
erupt. The earth began to crack down to form a large hole. The hole grew larger
and larger, and filled in it much water. The large hole grew up to form a lake,
and it was then called Lake
Toba. It is very famous
as a place of interest up to now. It has lovely view and natural beauty.
