I La Galigo, Prince of Luwuq

I La Galigo is the son of the hero Sawerigading and the princess I We Cudai of Cina, and grandson of Batara Lattuq of Luwuq. Though the sprawling epic cycle bears his name, he is in fact a comparatively late figure within it, a seafaring prince famed for gambling, cockfighting and roving adventures across the archipelago. His birth was marked by his mother's initial rejection of him. In Bugis reckoning he belongs to the last of the wholly divine-descended generations before the gods withdrew and the manurung ancestors of the historical dynasties appeared. The written cycle, Sureq Galigo, is among the longest literary works known.

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

• parent: Sawerigading, Wandering Hero of Luwuq
• parent: I We Cudai, Princess of Cina

Parentage accounts

Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.

• Abidin: Cina genealogy

  demigod by descent in this account.

  • father: Sawerigading, Wandering Hero of LuwuqAndi’ Zainal Abidin, The Emergence of Early Kingdoms in South Sulawesi (1983), pp.456, 460–461 and 465, sections IV.2 and V.2 (secondary)
  • mother: I We Cudai, Princess of CinaAndi’ Zainal Abidin, The Emergence of Early Kingdoms in South Sulawesi (1983), pp.456, 460–461 and 465, sections IV.2 and V.2 (secondary)
  Andi’ Zainal Abidin, The Emergence of Early Kingdoms in South Sulawesi (1983), pp.456, 460–461 and 465, sections IV.2 and V.2 (secondary)

Children in alternative accounts

• La Tenritatta (La Galigo): Abidin: Lontara PammanaAndi’ Zainal Abidin, The Emergence of Early Kingdoms in South Sulawesi (1983), pp.456, 460–461 and 465, sections IV.2 and V.2 (secondary)

Domains

• seafaring

Powers

• to voyage across the seas as a prince-adventurer

Relations

• nephew of: We Tenriabeng, Twin Sister of SawerigadingNephew, not sibling; his father and We Tenriabeng are twins.Christian Pelras, The Bugis (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), ch. 2. (secondary); Andi’ Zainal Abidin, The Emergence of Early Kingdoms in South Sulawesi (1983), pp.456, 460–461 and 465, sections IV.2 and V.2 (secondary)
• father of: La Tenritatta (La Galigo)Andi’ Zainal Abidin, The Emergence of Early Kingdoms in South Sulawesi (1983), pp.456, 460–461 and 465, sections IV.2 and V.2 (secondary)

Sources

• I La Galigo is the son of Sawerigading and I We Cudai and the eponymous hero of the Bugis epic cycle Sureq Galigo.: R.A. Kern, Catalogus van de Boegineesche, tot den I La Galigo-cyclus behoorende handschriften der Leidsche Universiteitsbibliotheek (Leiden: Universiteitsbibliotheek, 1939). (secondary); Christian Pelras, The Bugis (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), ch. 2. (secondary)