Akkoo Manooyyee ('Grandmother Manooyyee'), in eastern tradition also called Mootii Qorkee, is the legendary queen who ruled the Oromo in the remembered era of women's rule before the gadaa system. The Guji claim her especially, but many Oromo communities tell of her as their one-time sovereign: a formidable and finally tyrannical ruler under whom men performed the housework and were set labours of studied impossibility, until, weary of her orders, they conspired and brought her down. With her death the age of female rule ended, and the elders are said to have come together to institute the gadaa order; on her deathbed she is remembered as counselling the women to feign submission to male authority thereafter. Scholars read the tale as a charter narrative reflecting a remembered or imagined matriarchal past and its replacement by the male-centred gadaa polity, and as a key text in Oromo debates about the standing of women. Her memory retains ritual force: in time of drought Guji women gather beneath the Mokkonnisa tree, where the queen is said to be buried, and invoke her as they pray to Waaqa for rain.