We Nyiliq Timoq, Princess of the Underworld

We Nyiliq Timoq is the divine princess of the Underworld in the Bugis La Galigo cycle, the eldest daughter of the rulers of Pérétiwi — the undersea lower world also called Boriq Liu. When Patotoqe sends his son Batara Guru down from the sky to the empty land of Luwuq, a consort is sought for him in the depths, and We Nyiliq Timoq rises from beneath the sea to become his bride; she is also reckoned his cross-cousin within the divine kindred. Her ascent from below mirrors Batara Guru's descent from above, so that their marriage unites the Upperworld and the Underworld in the Middleworld of humankind. From this union descends Batara Lattuq, and in turn the hero Sawerigading and his twin We Tenriabeng, making her one of the apical ancestresses of the epic's human world.

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

No parents recorded in the default.

Parentage accounts

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• Abidin: La Galigo account

  deity by descent in this account.

  • father: Guru ri Selleng, King of the UnderworldAndi’ 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: Sinaung Toja, Queen of the UnderworldAndi’ 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

• Batara Lattuq, Second Ruler of Luwuq

Domains

• underworld and sea
• underworld royalty

Powers

• to rise from the undersea Underworld to the world of humans

Epithets

• Wé Nyiliq Timoq ri PérétiwiSirtjo 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: Batara Guru, the First to Descend to the MiddleworldBride of the sky-descended Batara Guru and, in the genealogy of the epic, his cross-cousin; their union founds the dynasty of Luwuq.Christian Pelras, The Bugis (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996), chap. 3. (secondary)
• child of: Guru ri Selleng, King of the UnderworldAndi’ Zainal Abidin, The Emergence of Early Kingdoms in South Sulawesi (1983), pp.456, 460–461 and 465, sections IV.2 and V.2 (secondary)
• child of: Sinaung Toja, Queen of the UnderworldAndi’ 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

• We Nyiliq Timoq is the goddess-princess of the Underworld Pérétiwi (Boriq Liu), eldest daughter of its rulers, who becomes the bride of Batara Guru and the divine ancestress of the dynasty of Luwuq 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)