Datu Palingeq, Queen of the Upperworld
Bugis · deity · Bugis traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Datu Palingeq is the queen of the Upperworld Boting Langiq and the wife of Patotoqe, the supreme fate-god of the Bugis La Galigo cycle. As the ordering consort of the creator, she is consulted by Patotoqe when he resolves to people the empty Middleworld, and she is the mother of their eldest son Batara Guru (La Togeq Langiq), who is sent down to found the kingdom of Luwuq. Through this son the divine couple become the apical ancestors of the human dynasties of the epic.
Children
Domains
- sky and upperworld
- queenship and divine counsel
Powers
- to counsel the fate-lord in the ordering of creation
Epithets
- Datu Palingéq ri Boting LangiqSirtjo Koolhof, 'The La Galigo: A Bugis Encyclopaedia and its Growth', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155, no. 3 (1999): 362–387. (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: Patotoqe, Determiner of Fate of the UpperworldShe is the consort of the supreme god Patotoqe and co-ruler of the Upperworld.Sirtjo Koolhof, 'The La Galigo: A Bugis Encyclopaedia and its Growth', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155, no. 3 (1999): 362–387. (secondary)
Sources
- Datu Palingeq is the divine consort of the supreme god Patotoqe and queen of the Upperworld Boting Langiq, mother of the first human ruler Batara Guru in the Bugis La Galigo cycle.: Christian Pelras, The Bugis (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996), chap. 3, 'The world of myth'. (secondary); Sirtjo Koolhof, 'The La Galigo: A Bugis Encyclopaedia and its Growth', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155, no. 3 (1999): 362–387. (secondary)