Waaqism is a monotheistic faith which is older than the Abrahmic faiths. Its probably as old as Zoastarianism, the First Monotheistic faith in the middle east. These three concepts are Ayaana (spirit) , Uuma (nature), and Safuu (moral and ethical order). Oromos believe that through Ayaana Waaqa created and regulates human and physical worlds in balanced ways. This Ayaana also maintains the connection between the creator and the created. Oromo society has organizing principles for its known and unknown universe like any society; Ayaana is a major organizing principle of oromo cosmology through which the concepts of time and creation are ordered. Ayaana as a system of classification and an organizing principle of oromo cosmology establishes the connection between waaqa and nature & society by differentiating and at the same time uniting the created things and the creator. Magarsaa further argues that Ayaana is a religious and philosophical construct which represents the principles of temporality and spirituality ...(It) also serves as an operating device according to which the entire universe is organized and classified. Oromos believe in Waaqa,a monotheistic God, that created the world through its Ayaana. They believe that this Supreme being created Ayaana and uses to organize scattered things into order. Magarsa explains that Ayaana is the mechanism by which the creator propels it self into becoming its own opposite, and dwells in that which it creates. This is then transposed to explain the basic principles that embed themselves in the diverse oromo institutions, since there is no distinction between the laws of thought, the laws of nature, history and society. As a religious and philosophical construct ,Ayaana provides meanings of the complex universe: Faced with the concrete reality of existence and the contradictions, oromo seem to have been compelled to look for creator, who not only creates but also holds the opposing forces in balance, and represents permanence behind the flux of existence. In the oromo view all things that are created were made possible through Ayaana. Ayaana is the organizing principle ,that . . . gives the form to anything and every thing. The concept known as Uuma includes every thing created by Waaqa including Ayaana. The third concept Saffu as explained by one of oromo elites Asafa Jalata on his book Oromo nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: the search for freedom and Democracy, the cultural roots of oromo nationalism(1998), is an ethical and moral code that the oromos use to differentiate bad from good and wrong from right...[s]affu constitutes the ethical basis upon which all human action should be founded; it is that which directs one on the right path; it shows the way in which life can be best lived. Oromos claim that the understanding of laws of Waaqa,nature and society both morally and ethically and living accordingly is necessary. Oromos believe in Gods law and the law of society that they establish through the Gada System of democracy to maintain Nagaa(peace) and Saffu among Waaqa ,Society ,and nature to achieve their full human destiny known as KAO or KAYYO.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 15:15:47 +0000
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