Melanesian and Polynesian cultures, mana is a supernatural force that permeates the universe. Anyone or anything can have mana. They believed it to be a...

Look up mana, Mana, or Appendix:Variations of "mana" in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mana may refer to: Mana (Oceanian cultures), the spiritual life...

beliefs Magic and religion Mana (Oceanian cultures) – Life force energy, power, effectiveness, and prestige in Pacific Island culture Mask – Any full or partial...

In European, Asian, Oceanian, African and Afro-diasporic cultures (which includes but should be distinguished from multiple cultures and Indigenous populations...

Oceanic art or Oceanian art comprises the creative works made by the native people of the Pacific Islands and Australia, including areas as far apart as...

migration. Micronesia was settled by three separate streams of First Remote Oceanian lineage, which corresponds to East Asian ancestry and clusters closely...

Before Christianity, the indigenous religion of Vanuatu was inherited from Oceanian and Melanesian traditions. Missionaries often called this pre-Christian...

power were worshiped as kami, entities closer in essence to the Oceanian concept of mana. Village councils sought the advice of kami and developed the yorishiro...

Training methods include spear catching, training in the surf, and focus of "mana" or life force. This energy is described much like qi in Chinese or ki in...

bridged the gap between gods and man. The gods possessed great mana; but man, too, has some mana. None of this may have been true in the time of Pāʻao, but...

partition of India and how different South Asian nations, religions, and cultures interact with each other. Countries to which South Asian literature's writers...

Before Christianity, the indigenous religion of Vanuatu was inherited from Oceanian and Melanesian traditions. Missionaries often called this pre-Christian...

Tongan heritage. In 2010, Kris Faafoi entered parliament by winning the 2010 Mana by-election, becoming the first MP of Tokelauan descent. In 2011, Alfred...

Anecdotal cognitivism Animatism Anima mundi Dayawism Ecotheology Hylozoism Mana Mauri (life force) Kaitiaki Panpsychism Religion and environmentalism Sacred...

more informal systems. Such concepts tend to appear more frequently in cultures based in polytheism, animism, or shamanism. Religion and magic became conceptually...

voyages of exploration and cultures of display". In McAleer, John; MacKenzie, John M. (eds.). Exhibiting the Empire: Cultures of display and the British...

settlements Tino rangatiratanga Culture Cuisine Funerals Mana Mythology Deities Ghosts and spirits Naming customs Polynesian culture Religion Rongomaraeroa Tapu...

an attempt by competing groups to destroy the socio-spiritual power, or mana, represented by statues, making sure to break them in the fall to ensure...

which Hoa Hakananai'a is a symbol stolen from Rapa Nui, whose spirit or mana must be recovered to restore welfare to the island. Hoa Hakananai'a has inspired...

year from 1978 to 2003. In the postwar decades, the African, Asian, and Oceanian colonies of European empires won their formal independence, a process known...

Singh (September 2012). "Aurobindo Gosh's Nobel nomination". Science and Culture. p. 442. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 7 November...

2009 Fiji earthquake - 2009 Oceanian Futsal Championship - 2009 Pacific Cup - 2009 IRB Pacific Nations Cup 2010 Oceanian Futsal Championship - 2010 IRB...

Neanderthal and Denisova origin have been identified in modern Eurasian and Oceanian populations. The Denisovan EPAS1 gene has also been found in Tibetan populations...

a direct link to the mana and fertility of the owner. In other words, to claim descent, either genealogical or spiritual. As mana could be dissipated and...

from the following day, TV One became a 24-hour channel. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage has responsibility for the national anthems. The guidelines...

He wrote the national anthem of India and Bangladesh namely, "Jana Gana Mana" and "Amar Sonar Bangla", respectively. He was the first Asian who won the...

given the title 'Manasu Kavi'(Poet of Heart), which can be rewritten as 'Mana Su Kavi'(Our Good Poet). His poetry is philosophical and intellectually satisfying...

1980s. Between 1977 and 1978, the Auckland-based Pasifika community magazine Mana ran a regular community news column written in Fäeg Rotuḁm (the Rotuman language)...

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and their pelts had status also. Sometimes kahu kurī were traded, giving mana across both parties. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and other...