If he has knocked out the tooth of a plebeian, he shall pay one-third of a mana of silver.
If he has knocked out the eye of a plebeian or has broken the limb of a plebeian, he shall pay one mana of silver.
So, too, indirect taboos depend for their strength on the mana of him who opposes them; if it is a chief or a priest, they are more powerful than those imposed by a common person.
Now, too, we understand why the forces inherent in the 'mana' of various persons can neutralize one another so that the mana of one individual can partly cancel that of the other.
A man of great lineage whose personal mana was undisputed.
The Government should be asked to recognize his mana over that territory.
Thus Aiai first put in practice the fishing oblations established by his father at the place of his birth, in his youth, but it was accomplished only through the mana kupua of his parents.
Their conceptions are not the same as their fathers', to whose minds Christianity came as a new form of tapu, and to whom the missionary appeared as possessor of a more powerful mana than the tohunga.
He must eat alone, could not carry food, could not blow the fire, could not do many things, lest his tapu should unwittingly slay some unfortunate person, or his mana become impaired.
The most important are that from Cayenne to Mana by way of Kourou, Sinnamarie and Iracoubo, and that from Cayenne along the coast to Kaw and the mouth of the Approuague.
Mana is itself, strictly speaking, a scientific biological conception, but it necessarily enters into alliance with religion.
Things and persons endowed with peculiar power, whether as seats of mana or as abodes of spirits, are set apart by themselves, are regarded with feelings of awe, and thus become "sacred.
The doctrine of mana gradually vanishes before a better knowledge of the human constitution,[436] a larger conception of the gods, and a greater trust in them.
Purely economic and other social considerations are sometimes combined with the mana conception.
Various considerations may have contributed to the establishment of such customs, but in their earliest form we have, probably, to recognize not any moral effort to secure chastity, but a dread of injurious mana resident in women.
The native theory in such cases doubtless is that the great man's mana overcomes the taboo infection; but at bottom, we may surmise, lies the sense of the dominance of civil authority.
Mana is not thought of as being in itself a personal power, and worship is paid only to objects regarded as having personality.
Though the theory of manawas necessarily vague, the thing itself was quite definite.
The theory of mana includes the belief that special supernatural power resides in the persons of tribal leaders, such as magicians, chiefs, priests.
Mana is conceived of by the peoples mentioned above not as a vague influence diffused through the world, but as a power resident in certain definite persons or things.
Taboo recognizes the inherent malefic manifestations of the force (known by supposed experience), and avoids them; magic uses the mana energy to effect results impossible for unaided human power.
One is worn by the girl, and the mana is covered with the other.
She walks three times round the pandal, and places the mana on a grass mat, over which has been spread some paddy and some rice where the girl will put her foot.
The mana is then placed, with the cloth near it, on a grass mat in the inner pandal.
The carpenter brings a mana of pala wood, the cost of which is paid by the father, and does puja to it.
Before her return, the mana should be placed ready for her in the middle room of the house.
A grass mat is spread in the middle room of the house, with a white cloth over it, on which the mana is placed.
The thread which is used for the purpose is drawn from the cloth with which the mana has been covered.
In these they went first to Robin Hood Bay, and then to Te Awaiti, in Tory Channel, where they remained a few days, finally crossing the Strait to Mana and Otaki, there to await developments.
Accompanied by Major Richmond and Captain Best, he left Wellington Harbour on the morning of October 5th, and anchored the North Star under the lee of Mana that afternoon.
This canoe was held to be exceedingly sacred, and now lies at Mana Island.
But even when they led a terrestrial life, they already had, as we have seen, exceptional powers; they had a mana superior to that of ordinary men, and they have kept it.
Here is the same ubiquity; the mana is located nowhere definitely and it is everywhere.
The concept of mana is applied only to those that are important enough to cause reflection, and to awaken a minimum of interest and curiosity; but they are not marvellous for all that.
Yet it does not seem that the notion of churinga has the same clarity and precision as that of the mana in Melanesia or of the wakan among the Sioux.
Antithesis of the soul and the body: what there is objective in this--Relations of the individual soul with the collective soul--The idea of the soul is not chronologically after that of mana 262 V.
A priest, a sorcerer or a ritual formula have mana as well as a sacred stone or spirit.
It is true that if certain phrases of Codrington are taken literally, mana should be the cause to which is attributed "everything which is beyond the ordinary power of men, outside the common processes of nature.
The idea of a single and universal mana could be born only at the moment when the tribal religion developed above that of the clans and absorbed them more or less completely.
In 1900, Marrett showed the existence of a religious phase which he called preanimistic, in which the rites are addressed to impersonal forces like the Melanesian mana and the wakan of the Omaha and Dakota.
And what is true of the mana as well as the orenda and wakan, may be said equally well of the totemic principle.
As a matter of fact, both explanations were accepted by primitive peoples, so that woman was regarded not only as imbued with mana but also as being in direct contact with spirits.
Her fertility could be explained only on the basis of her possession of an unusually large amount of mana or creative force, or by the theory of impregnation by demonic powers.
There is also the fear of the mysterious and supernatural, whether conceived as the mana force or as a principle of "bad magic.
The understanding of this dualism together with the primitive belief in Mana and Sympathetic Magic explains much in the attitude of man toward woman.
Nothing could be more indicative of the belief that the power to bring forth children was a manifestation of the possession of mana than the common avoidance of the pregnant woman.
Mana must however be liberally interpreted if we are to see to the bottom of the mystery.
With this interpretation of mana in mind, taboo may be conceived as negative mana; and to break taboo is to set in motion against oneself mystic wonder-working power.
And the nights, the perfumed nights, the chanting of the meles and the dancing of the hulas, and the big Mana grounds with lovers everywhere strolling two by two under the trees.
He donta go vera far before a pleasanter mana speaks to him.
Why doth not Skarl forsake his drumming, and MANA cease to rest?
And then shall the gods be afraid when they find that MANA knoweth that they have made Worlds while he rested.
And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that MANA rested, and there was silence on Pegana save for the drumming of Skarl.
For none shall know of MANA who hath rested for so long, whether he be a harsh or merciful god.
And We play with the Worlds and the Sun and Life and Death until MANA arises to rebuke us, saying: 'What do ye playing with Worlds and Suns?
And this They will play until MANA arises to rebuke Them, saying: "What do ye playing with Worlds and Suns and Men and Life and Death?
One not to seek like the comet, nor to go round like the worlds; to rest while MANA rests.
Pray to the small gods, who are the gods of Doing; but MANA is the god of Having Done--the god of Having Done and of the Resting.
But if a bull had already gored a man, and, although it was known to be vicious, the owner had not blunted its horns or shut it up, in the event of its goring and killing a free man, he had to pay half a mana of silver.
One-third of a mana was the price paid for a slave who was killed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mana" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
