Maromak is the supreme divinity of Tetum religion, a remote celestial being whose name is cognate with naroman, 'light', so that the god is understood as the Shining or Luminous One associated with the sun and the daylit sky. Conceived as the ultimate source of life and order, Maromak is seldom addressed directly in everyday worship, which is instead directed toward the ancestors and the owner-spirits of the land; the divinity presides over the cosmos from the celestial realm rather than intervening in it. Sources differ on whether Maromak is imagined as male, as androgynous, or as beyond gender altogether. In the southern Tetum ritual polity of Wehali the sacred sovereign bears the title Maromak Oan, 'Child of Maromak', binding earthly rule to the divine source.