We Tenriabeng is the twin sister of the hero Sawerigading, born to Batara Lattuq of Luwuq. Because a prophecy foretold that the twins would fall fatally in love, the bissu priests ordered them parted at birth, and We Tenriabeng was raised apart from her brother. When Sawerigading, returning home, does indeed conceive a forbidden passion for her, she wisely redirects him by describing her mirror-image, the princess I We Cudai of Cina, whom he departs to woo. We Tenriabeng herself renounces earthly marriage and ascends to the Upperworld (Boting Langiq), where she weds her celestial betrothed Remmang ri Langi. She is closely tied in the tradition to the bissu, the androgynous priesthood that mediates between the human world and the gods.