I We Cudai, Princess of Cina
Bugis · demigod · Bugis traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
I We Cudai is the princess of the kingdom of Cina and the mirror-double of We Tenriabeng, resembling Sawerigading's forbidden twin so closely that she can lawfully take her place as his bride. The long, tempestuous courtship of Sawerigading and I We Cudai — including the felling of the great Welenrengnge tree to build the ship that carries him to her — is the most celebrated episode of the whole Sureq Galigo. From their union is born I La Galigo, after whom the entire epic cycle is named.
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- I La Galigo, Prince of Luwuq: Abidin: Cina genealogyAndi’ 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
- kingship
Powers
- to rule as princess of Cina
Relations
- consort of: Sawerigading, Wandering Hero of LuwuqAfter a long and stormy courtship, I We Cudai becomes the wife of Sawerigading.Christian Pelras, The Bugis (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), ch. 2. (secondary)
- mother of: I La Galigo, Prince of LuwuqShe is the mother of I La Galigo, the epic's title-figure.Sirtjo Koolhof, 'The La Galigo: A Bugis Encyclopaedia and its Growth,' Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155/3 (1999): 362-387. (secondary)
Sources
- I We Cudai is the princess of Cina who becomes the wife of Sawerigading and mother of I La Galigo.: Christian Pelras, The Bugis (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), ch. 2. (secondary); Sirtjo Koolhof, 'The La Galigo: A Bugis Encyclopaedia and its Growth,' Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155/3 (1999): 362-387. (secondary)