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.