Thinking about it, the Pasifika term "mana" has been ganked really badly by Western fantasy to mean "magical electric charge" and it... doesn't really mean that Again, because ancient peoples didn't draw this modern divide between "magic" and "non-magic" kinds of "power"https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1302402100341559296 …
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A person having "mana" just means having "power" Being physically beautiful is a form of mana, being from an aristocratic family is mana, being physically wealthy is mana As well as the kind of mana that comes from being "gifted" in some harder-to-explain way
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It's very similar to the Greek term "charisma", which in Christian tradition can mean supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit like faith healing and so on, but also does mean what we use it for now -- just the ability to speak well and make people like you
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