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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You’re probably right,I was imagining a writer struggling with a deadline who needed a word to describe something that doesn’t exist in English or reality and using one language’s word and mixing it with another language’s word to create a English new word.
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If you have specific knowledge or evidence I’m missing then my bad (full stop). I don’t know anything about Pasifika. I was just commenting on my understanding of the term mana from my understanding of its use and fantasy and my limited perspective of language.
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