Sureq Galigo
La Galigo, also Sureq Galigo, is an epic in the ancient language of the Bugis from Sulawesi (Indonesia ), which survives in many manuscripts. The text covers approximately 300,000 verses, about 6,000 pages and is one of the longest ever written literary works (approximately 20 times the length of the Odyssey). The epic was written between the 13th and 15th centuries. Although La Galigo is not seen as a historical document, it gives historians an idea of the society of the Bugis of South Sulawesi in the 14th century. If stored in the Leiden University Library manuscript was entered Register on 25 May 2011 because of its global importance and of outstanding universal value in the UNESCO Memory of the World.
La Galigo is the name of a character in this story, the epic tells the myth of creation, including in the adventures of the great warrior Sawerigading and his incestuous love for his twin sister We Tenriabeng.
Content
Sawèri - Gading La - Tanritâppu Pamàdalâtte Lawe Towanjompa La - Madukallang Langi - Puwang Prince of Wara called ( in Luwu ), short Sawerigading, is the son of the king of Luwu, Batara Lattu, and the grandson of Batara Guru, who from the first deities heaven came down to earth. In his youth Sawerigading made a series of journeys that have led him to Celebes, the Moluccas and to Sumbawa, and to some unidentifiable countries. One of these trips led him to the island of the cosmic tree Pao Jengki, of which the branches into the sky and its roots to the center of the earth. He sees the great ocean vortex, which moves all the water in the world, and penetrates even into the land of death twice before. The first time you stay there, he must refrain from taking the just- deceased Princess We Pinrakati with him to the upper world, the second attempt succeeds, return wave ri Lino to the living.
Again arrived in Luwu, Sawerigading sees for the first time his separated at birth from his twin sister We Tenriabeng, who he instantly falls in love. All remonstrances of his entourage and also the contradiction We Tenriabengs he will not follow, but decides to marry her. As a last resort his sister tells of a cousin, We Cudai who live in the country Cina and her hair exactly the same. She gives her brother a strand of hair, one of her bracelets and a ring on the journey. Sawerigading to carve a boat out of the trunk of the giant tree Welenreng, but he has to make it. This causes all nests of birds that nest in the crown down, break the eggs and cause a huge flood. Therefore Sawerigading makes the atonement vow never to set foot in the ground of Luwu.
After many adventures and battles he finally finds We Cudai and marries her. They have a son La Galigo, the namesake of the epic, and a daughter We Tenrido which is formed into a bissu ( Shaman, Medium). When his grandson La Tenritatta married and Sawerigading his vow never to set foot again Luwu, breaks, he is devoured along with We Cudai by a wave. In the lower world, he takes over from Guri ri Selling the rule, his sister and her husband Remmang We Tenriabeng ri Langi be ruler of the upper world. As one of Sawerigadings daughters and a marry of We Tenriabengs sons and have children, the connection between the world and heaven shall finally expire, and mankind is on his own.
Reception
The director Robert Wilson has created in 2004, " I La Galigo ", a stage of implementation La Galigo. The performances took place in Singapore, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid, Lyon, Ravenna, New York City, Jakarta and Melbourne in 2004 and 2005.
The famous dancer Ethnic Coppong Daeng Rannu (* 1920 in Gowa, South Sulawesi ) from Makassar danced while the figure of the rice goddess.