Tomanuru

Tomanuru, from the Bugis tomanurung, those who came down, is the belief in rulers sent from the upper world that underlies the founding stories of South Sulawesi's kingdoms. Before the fourteenth century tradition tells of two descents: first the sky being PatotoE, called Tamboro Langi, on Mount Latimojong, then his son Batara Guru with his wife We Nyilittimoq, whose arrival marked the rise of local lords.

Bone was founded in the early fourteenth century with the Tomanurung ri Matajang, who became its first ruler, La Ubbi. Gowa's line began about 1320 with the marriage of the Tumanurung, the unknown one, to a noble named Karaeng Bayo, and in Soppeng too the state was tied to such a descent.