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Is WAAQ-AYYOO our KA-AYYOO / is our KA-AYYOO
the WAAQ-AYYOO?
Published 07/18/2009 -1:00 a.m.
Fellow Oromos,
don't consider the following idea as blasphemy or disrespect to our respective Gods aka Jehova
of Christianity, Alah of Islam and Waaqayyoo of Amanti-Oromo. I just wanted to share with you
what I hitherto read and then pondered on further. It is about what purpose we do serve in our
daily life both cognitively and behaviourally, as individuals or as a nation. Be it that we do think
and walk at political, religious or private level, we do try to serve certain purose in life. In order to
identify that purpose, we only need to be conscious about it, reflect on it and ask our selves:
whom do we privately or collectively serve in our endeavors? Do we serve our own intentionally
chosen purpose or that of the others'? What purpose do we need to serve? Fortunately the
hitherto cummulative knowledges and wisdoms of different societies in general and that of Oromo
society in particular tell us what we ought to serve: the purpose which is GOOD for us as an
individual and/or as a collective. This good purpose is given a sacred name and it seems to be
what people call GOD. As a proof for this assertion, we can look at an example written in the
Bible of christians, that states : "God is my Objective"! Is this to be understood also as: "my
Objective is God"? Can we say that our personal or political
Agenda/Cause/Aim/Goal/End/Plan/Interest/Purpose/Objective .....etc is our God, whom we ought
to serve?
To comprehend this "philosophical" complex, it is no where clearly written other than in Afaan
Oromo. Surprisingly the words Kaayyoo and Waaqayyoo in our language do have the same
meaning. As we will read it below, the short word KA is the name given by our ancestors to God
and the word Ayyoo is of course the name given to a mother, who does wish all good things for
her children and does plan and try to fulfill it. KA is defined as her objective which is good for her
children. It is the "Goodness" for her children. So KA-Ayyoo is the God ( good objective of Ayyoo
to her beloved children). The term Waaqayyo is the short form of Waan-KA-ayyoo (the issue of
the mother's God or the issue of her good Objective to her children). So we can see that the
good END, we have to serve, can be called Kaayyoo (KA-ayyoo) or Waaqayyoo (Waan-KA-ayyoo).
So God is simply to be defined as the good END we choose to serve.
Let's ask our selves as an individual or as a nation:
" which Kaayyoo/Waaqayoo/Agenda.... are we serving? As far as our Oromo nation is concerend,
the Kaayyoo/Waaqayoo we need to serve is Bilisummaa Uummata Oromoo (freedom of Oromo
people) and Walabummaa Biyyaa Oromoo (sovereignity of Oromoland). Then we can ask our
selves whether the names Alah, Jehovah, God, Igzi'abiher, Waaqayyoo...etc refer to the same
God. Isn't Alah the name given to Arab's Agenda...? Jehovah to that of Israelis? God to that of
English people, Igzi'abiher to that of Amharas? And of course Waaqayyoo being the Agenda... or
Kaayyoo of Oromos?!
To comprehend the whole issue regarding KA (the name given to Agenda..... i.e the name given
to God, read the following intersting article: story of Irrecha. Surprisingly we do discover that KA
is God/Kayyoo/Goal, whereas Gadaa (KA-aadaa) is the way (Karaa) to the God/Kayyoo/Goal.
Simply put Gadaa is the Karaa to Kaayyoo. It is interesting to observe that the Qalluu institution,
which deals with Waan-KA-ayyoo (Waaqayyoo) is responsible for setting Oromos collective
Kayyoo/Agenda....., so that it is a moral institution and Gadaa institution is responsible for forging
the right Karaa to the Kaayyoo, so it is legal institution. We Oromos do choose and walk on
certain Karaa to our Kaayyoo, be it individually (privately) or collectively (politically or religiously).
So my question to my fellow Oromos as collective is, which God are we serving? The God/Kayyoo
of Abeshas, that of Israelis, of Arabs...etc or the God/Waa-Qayyoo of Oromos? Enjoy the
following very good mythology, speaking a lot of truth about Oromo and our KA:
"The story of Irrecha
- the celebration of the first harvest of the Ethiopian Spring in September - is a story told by the
late Poet Laureate Blattten Geta Tsegaye G/Medhin (Oromo poet who wrote mainly in
Amharinyaa):
....12,000 years ago, Asra the God of sun and of sky, God of Cush Pharao, begotten Sete the
older son, Ora the younger son and a daughter named as Asis (Atete or Adbar). The older Sete
killed his younger brother Ora and Asis (Atete or Adbar) planted a tree (Odaa) for the memorial of
her deceased brother Ora at the bank of Nile in Egypt where the murder had taken place and she
requested her father who was the God of Sun to make peace among the families of Sete and
Ora. Then rain has come and the tree (Odaa) got grown. It symbolized that the peace has taken
place. Later, at the Stone Age, the tree that had been planted for the memorial of the killed, Ora
was substituted by statue of stone that was erected 8000 years ago.
The festival for the Ora statue has been celebrated in September of every year when Nile flows
full in Nubia and in black Egypt. In Ethiopia during the Axumite and pre-Axumite period a great
festival has been held around the statue that was planted by Asis (Atete or Adbar) for the
memorial of Ora, the son of sun's God, who risen up from death (Ora Omo or Or-omo) for the
purpose of celebrating the peace made between the two brothers. Then after the memorial was
the great herald performed in thanking the God of sun and of sky with Chibo.
The Eyo KA Abebaye (the traditional and popular song performed at Demera events and new
year in Ethiopia) has been started being performed since then. "KA" is the first name of God. The
name of God that our Cush Fathers have inherited to us before the old period of Christianity and
Islam is "KA". Since then, therefore, especially the Oromo, Gurage and the Southern people of
Ethiopia have been calling God as "Waka or Waaqa”. When we sing Eyoka or Eyoha in New Year,
we do prais "KA", the God.
"Gadaa" or KA Aada" is the law or rule of God. "Gadaa" (KA Aada) is the festival by which the
laws and orders of God are executed. Japan, China and India have now reached to their current
civilization through making the basic traditions and cultures they received from their forefathers
(Hindu, Shinto and Mahiberata) be kept, even at the time they were receiving Islam, Christianity,
and other ideologies, especially Democracy and other free believes. They are not here through
undermining the culture and tradition of their forefathers.
Culture is the collection of many Chibos or Demeras. "Irrecha" or "Irresa" one of the part and
parcel of Gadaa (KA Aadaa) system is the corner stone of and the turning point to the new year
for which Asis (Atete or Adbar) has put up the dead body of her brother, Ora who was killed by
his older brother (like Abel of Bible) from the place where he died at the river bank of Nile and
planted a statue".
The Oromo people of beautifull Ethiopia believe in one God since time memorial. Their religion is
called "Waaqeffannaa" which means believing in one God that is the creator of the whole
universe. Irrecha means a celebration where people get together and perform their prayers and
thanks giving to God.
Waaqeffanna, the faith being in the Gadaa system is a religious ceremony that is free from any
thing. The fathers of Oromo religion and the people, keeping fresh grass and flowers, perform
their prayers and thank their God going to mountains, to sea or to river bank.
They move to the top of mountains or bank of seas or rivers not to worship the mountains or
rivers and seas. Rather to distract themselves from any noise and to worship their God (Waaqa)
with concentration. And they go to sea and rivers because they believe that green is holy, water
is life and the places are peaceful where the spirit of God is found.
In the Oromo culture, the rainy season is considered as the symbol of darkness. At the beginning
of September, the darkness is gone, rivers run shallower and cleaner, and the mud is gone. As
sunshine rules the land, the Oromo people of Ethiopia go out to celebrate this great natural cycle
with the spirit of worshiping God (Waaqa)".
Fayyis can be reached via e-mail: fayyis@yahoo.com
the WAAQ-AYYOO?
Published 07/18/2009 -1:00 a.m.
Fellow Oromos,
don't consider the following idea as blasphemy or disrespect to our respective Gods aka Jehova
of Christianity, Alah of Islam and Waaqayyoo of Amanti-Oromo. I just wanted to share with you
what I hitherto read and then pondered on further. It is about what purpose we do serve in our
daily life both cognitively and behaviourally, as individuals or as a nation. Be it that we do think
and walk at political, religious or private level, we do try to serve certain purose in life. In order to
identify that purpose, we only need to be conscious about it, reflect on it and ask our selves:
whom do we privately or collectively serve in our endeavors? Do we serve our own intentionally
chosen purpose or that of the others'? What purpose do we need to serve? Fortunately the
hitherto cummulative knowledges and wisdoms of different societies in general and that of Oromo
society in particular tell us what we ought to serve: the purpose which is GOOD for us as an
individual and/or as a collective. This good purpose is given a sacred name and it seems to be
what people call GOD. As a proof for this assertion, we can look at an example written in the
Bible of christians, that states : "God is my Objective"! Is this to be understood also as: "my
Objective is God"? Can we say that our personal or political
Agenda/Cause/Aim/Goal/End/Plan/Interest/Purpose/Objective .....etc is our God, whom we ought
to serve?
To comprehend this "philosophical" complex, it is no where clearly written other than in Afaan
Oromo. Surprisingly the words Kaayyoo and Waaqayyoo in our language do have the same
meaning. As we will read it below, the short word KA is the name given by our ancestors to God
and the word Ayyoo is of course the name given to a mother, who does wish all good things for
her children and does plan and try to fulfill it. KA is defined as her objective which is good for her
children. It is the "Goodness" for her children. So KA-Ayyoo is the God ( good objective of Ayyoo
to her beloved children). The term Waaqayyo is the short form of Waan-KA-ayyoo (the issue of
the mother's God or the issue of her good Objective to her children). So we can see that the
good END, we have to serve, can be called Kaayyoo (KA-ayyoo) or Waaqayyoo (Waan-KA-ayyoo).
So God is simply to be defined as the good END we choose to serve.
Let's ask our selves as an individual or as a nation:
" which Kaayyoo/Waaqayoo/Agenda.... are we serving? As far as our Oromo nation is concerend,
the Kaayyoo/Waaqayoo we need to serve is Bilisummaa Uummata Oromoo (freedom of Oromo
people) and Walabummaa Biyyaa Oromoo (sovereignity of Oromoland). Then we can ask our
selves whether the names Alah, Jehovah, God, Igzi'abiher, Waaqayyoo...etc refer to the same
God. Isn't Alah the name given to Arab's Agenda...? Jehovah to that of Israelis? God to that of
English people, Igzi'abiher to that of Amharas? And of course Waaqayyoo being the Agenda... or
Kaayyoo of Oromos?!
To comprehend the whole issue regarding KA (the name given to Agenda..... i.e the name given
to God, read the following intersting article: story of Irrecha. Surprisingly we do discover that KA
is God/Kayyoo/Goal, whereas Gadaa (KA-aadaa) is the way (Karaa) to the God/Kayyoo/Goal.
Simply put Gadaa is the Karaa to Kaayyoo. It is interesting to observe that the Qalluu institution,
which deals with Waan-KA-ayyoo (Waaqayyoo) is responsible for setting Oromos collective
Kayyoo/Agenda....., so that it is a moral institution and Gadaa institution is responsible for forging
the right Karaa to the Kaayyoo, so it is legal institution. We Oromos do choose and walk on
certain Karaa to our Kaayyoo, be it individually (privately) or collectively (politically or religiously).
So my question to my fellow Oromos as collective is, which God are we serving? The God/Kayyoo
of Abeshas, that of Israelis, of Arabs...etc or the God/Waa-Qayyoo of Oromos? Enjoy the
following very good mythology, speaking a lot of truth about Oromo and our KA:
"The story of Irrecha
- the celebration of the first harvest of the Ethiopian Spring in September - is a story told by the
late Poet Laureate Blattten Geta Tsegaye G/Medhin (Oromo poet who wrote mainly in
Amharinyaa):
....12,000 years ago, Asra the God of sun and of sky, God of Cush Pharao, begotten Sete the
older son, Ora the younger son and a daughter named as Asis (Atete or Adbar). The older Sete
killed his younger brother Ora and Asis (Atete or Adbar) planted a tree (Odaa) for the memorial of
her deceased brother Ora at the bank of Nile in Egypt where the murder had taken place and she
requested her father who was the God of Sun to make peace among the families of Sete and
Ora. Then rain has come and the tree (Odaa) got grown. It symbolized that the peace has taken
place. Later, at the Stone Age, the tree that had been planted for the memorial of the killed, Ora
was substituted by statue of stone that was erected 8000 years ago.
The festival for the Ora statue has been celebrated in September of every year when Nile flows
full in Nubia and in black Egypt. In Ethiopia during the Axumite and pre-Axumite period a great
festival has been held around the statue that was planted by Asis (Atete or Adbar) for the
memorial of Ora, the son of sun's God, who risen up from death (Ora Omo or Or-omo) for the
purpose of celebrating the peace made between the two brothers. Then after the memorial was
the great herald performed in thanking the God of sun and of sky with Chibo.
The Eyo KA Abebaye (the traditional and popular song performed at Demera events and new
year in Ethiopia) has been started being performed since then. "KA" is the first name of God. The
name of God that our Cush Fathers have inherited to us before the old period of Christianity and
Islam is "KA". Since then, therefore, especially the Oromo, Gurage and the Southern people of
Ethiopia have been calling God as "Waka or Waaqa”. When we sing Eyoka or Eyoha in New Year,
we do prais "KA", the God.
"Gadaa" or KA Aada" is the law or rule of God. "Gadaa" (KA Aada) is the festival by which the
laws and orders of God are executed. Japan, China and India have now reached to their current
civilization through making the basic traditions and cultures they received from their forefathers
(Hindu, Shinto and Mahiberata) be kept, even at the time they were receiving Islam, Christianity,
and other ideologies, especially Democracy and other free believes. They are not here through
undermining the culture and tradition of their forefathers.
Culture is the collection of many Chibos or Demeras. "Irrecha" or "Irresa" one of the part and
parcel of Gadaa (KA Aadaa) system is the corner stone of and the turning point to the new year
for which Asis (Atete or Adbar) has put up the dead body of her brother, Ora who was killed by
his older brother (like Abel of Bible) from the place where he died at the river bank of Nile and
planted a statue".
The Oromo people of beautifull Ethiopia believe in one God since time memorial. Their religion is
called "Waaqeffannaa" which means believing in one God that is the creator of the whole
universe. Irrecha means a celebration where people get together and perform their prayers and
thanks giving to God.
Waaqeffanna, the faith being in the Gadaa system is a religious ceremony that is free from any
thing. The fathers of Oromo religion and the people, keeping fresh grass and flowers, perform
their prayers and thank their God going to mountains, to sea or to river bank.
They move to the top of mountains or bank of seas or rivers not to worship the mountains or
rivers and seas. Rather to distract themselves from any noise and to worship their God (Waaqa)
with concentration. And they go to sea and rivers because they believe that green is holy, water
is life and the places are peaceful where the spirit of God is found.
In the Oromo culture, the rainy season is considered as the symbol of darkness. At the beginning
of September, the darkness is gone, rivers run shallower and cleaner, and the mud is gone. As
sunshine rules the land, the Oromo people of Ethiopia go out to celebrate this great natural cycle
with the spirit of worshiping God (Waaqa)".
Fayyis can be reached via e-mail: fayyis@yahoo.com
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