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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I mean that applies to most of the terms being used for fantasy stuff. Magus comes to mind.
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One must also note that Mana in that sense was also normally considered an inborn trait. not something you could acquire normally.
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Not always, like in Hawaiian culture mana could explicitly be earned through pono (righteousness)
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