Sinaung Toja, Queen of the Underworld
Bugis · deity · Bugis traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Sinaung Toja (also Sinoa Toja) is the queen of the Underworld in the Bugis Sureq Galigo, the female counterpart of Guru ri Selleng. Together they rule the depths of the waters and mirror below the world the sovereign couple Patotoqe and Datu Palingeq who rule above it. It is these two underworld deities who, jointly with the Upperworld gods, resolve to fill the empty Middleworld, and Sinaung Toja is accordingly counted mother of We Nyiliq Timoq, whose ascent and marriage to Batara Guru inaugurates human kingship in Luwuq.
Children in alternative accounts
- We Nyiliq Timoq, Princess of the Underworld: Abidin: La Galigo accountAndi’ 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
- subterranean waters
Powers
- to govern the waters of the underworld
Relations
- spouse: Guru ri Selleng, King of the UnderworldSinaung Toja is the consort of Guru ri Selleng and co-ruler of the Underworld.Sirtjo Koolhof, 'The La Galigo: A Bugis Encyclopaedia and its Growth,' Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155/3 (1999): 362-387. (secondary)
- mother of: We Nyiliq Timoq, Princess of the UnderworldAs consort of Guru ri Selleng she is mother of We Nyiliq Timoq, sent up to become the Middleworld queen.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)
- sibling: Patotoqe, Determiner of Fate of the UpperworldAndi’ 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
- Sinaung Toja is the female sovereign of the Bugis Underworld and consort of Guru ri Selleng in the La Galigo cycle.: Sirtjo Koolhof, 'The La Galigo: A Bugis Encyclopaedia and its Growth,' Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155/3 (1999): 362-387. (secondary); Christian Pelras, The Bugis (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), ch. 2. (secondary)