Waaq

Waaq, or Waaqa, is a sky god of the Horn of Africa. The word still means God in Oromo, and survives in Konso, Rendille and other Cushitic languages.

Among the Oromo he is Waaqa Tokkicha, the one God, who acts through the ayyaana, intermediary spirits. After Islam arrived, the Somali largely replaced the name with the Arabic Allaah, but it lives on in the Jidwaaq clan and the town of Ceelwaaq.