A family visit to the tomb of Hang Tuah...

OK. Let's continue the process of releasing stories based on my December 2009 picture file. Consider this the continuation from the article Kampung Morten at night ...

After spending the night at my brother-in-law's place at Tanjung Puteri, we visited the tomb of Hang Tuah in Tanjung Keling...

For information, Hang Tuah was a well-reknowned Malay warrior who used to be the admiral leading the Melaka Sultanate army in the 15th century AD...

To the right one could see a monument engraved with the words "tidak Melayu hilang di dunia (the Malays won't ever disappear from the world)" said to be uttered by the very famous olden admiral.

Hang Tuah's prowess in the Malay martial arts called Silat is legendary. Some even said he was a wali, a person who has attained saintly status in the eyes of God.

That is why his tomb is is some 20 metres-long they said! Then again, make no mistake. Just because someone's tomb is 20 metres long, it doesn't mean he is 20 metres tall. If that is the case, shouldn't logic dictates that the tomb should also be 5 metres wide to accomodate the commensurating width and physical size? Otherwise, there is no way anyone could be 20 metres tall but yet has a body of the normal 0.5 to at most 1 metres-wide as attested by the width of the tomb. There is no way someone with such a figure would be able to walk properly what more perform feats of martial arts.

No sir. Such long tombs actually exist to signify a person's saintly status, at least in the eyes of men. Anyway this tomb of Hang Tuah in Tanjung Keling is not his original tomb. No one actually knows where Hang Tuah died or where he was buried at. The tomb in Tanjung Keling is said to be just a reminder and tribute to the great warrior. It is said that after Hang Tuah disappeared from Melaka, the Sultan tends to stare out into the window right towards Tanjung Keling and thus a tomb was erected in his remembrance...

p/s: This is the 454th article in this blogspot.