Why is mana called mana?
It's like that in other games too. For all the memes and stuff about not having mana, I never understood why it's accepted that magical energy is called mana?
Posted Mar 25, 2018, 1:35 AM UTC
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Originates from the Maori
The Maori believed that everything had a definite soul (wairua) and a liquid concept of spiritual “essence” (mana). Mana revealed itself in land, nature, humans and other objects. Mana seemed to be associated to contemporary concepts of nobility, power, influence, charisma, authority, prestige etc.
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Wrong. Came from Polynesian languages originally.
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Maori are Polynesian tf...
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Maybe technically, but in NZ we consider Maoris and Polynesian people to be different.
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huh, well TIL
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because it's an actual word and can be used in said context. "mana ˈmɑːnə/Submit noun (in Polynesian, Melanesian, and Maori belief) an impersonal supernatural power which can be transmitted or inherited."
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According to linguist Robert Blust, "mana" means "thunder, storm, or wind" in some languages. Blust hypothesized that the term originally meant "powerful forces of nature such as thunder and storm winds that were conceived as the expression of an unseen supernatural agency. As Oceanic-speaking peoples spread eastward, the notion of an unseen supernatural agency became detached from the physical forces of nature that had inspired it and assumed a life of its own." - wiki
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read the first 2 answers. they explain it pretty well.
Both, the Polynesian and the Catholic explanation are true and make sense. And if you look deaper you can definitely find more explanations that make sense.
In the end it is like the first hamburger. Nobody knows for sure.
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wow i never knew the possible christian origin! fascinating!
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wow i never knew the possible christian origin! fascinating!
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like a battery has electricity magic is powered by mana just a word associated with it all things have to have words after all why not mana
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LOL this is such a dumb comment
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Can't even understand what you're trying to say
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Batteries don't have electricity. The energy is stored in a chemical form.
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and the chemicals discharge makes electricity tomato tomato
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With this much indepth knowledge, there is no way you don't have a Ph.D. in Physics.
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That’s not how it works.
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your answer is rather early within this, and you can keep watching for a cool history lesson: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIfgic6W09Y