Simbolong Manik is the goddess of the second divine generation in the cosmogony of the Sa'dan Toraja. Her name, 'the beaded chignon' or 'jewelled hair-knot', draws on an image that recurs in Toraja ritual speech as the very figure of noble female beauty, as in the praise poetry recited at marriage rites. As the wife of Usuk Sangbamban, the god sprung from the rib of the sky god Gaun Tikembong, she bore Puang Matua, the Old Lord who forged the first ancestors, and so stands as grandmother-figure to the created order in the liturgical genealogies chanted in the passomba tedong.