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Out of the material in Sureq Galigo, that covers the story of a so-called Middle World (that of humanity), the drama focuses on one particular narrative thread, about the warrior Sawerigading, and his twin sister; We Tenriabeng.
The are descendants of the gods of the heavens and the gods of the underworld who end their offspring to inhabit the earth. from the time in the womb of their mother, hich is put onto stage, they are destined to fall in love with each other.
Worried that their incest would doom the world, the Bissu priests order them to be separated at birth. Sawerigading travels abroad but is eventually told about the world's most beautiful woman. He returns home and actually falls in love with his twin sister.
To avoid the worst, We Tenriabeng introduces him to a woman of equal beauty, whom he marries to have a son name I La Galigo.
Nevertheless, the earth is cleansed of all life another time and their children mate again to repopulate it and star a new era.
