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Mana vs Manas - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between mana and manas

is that mana is power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people while manas is (theosophy etc) the mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals.

mana

English

(wikipedia mana)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mana, ultimately from Proto-Polynesian .

Noun

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  • Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 193:
  • But in popular estimation their essential virtue derived from the personal mana of the sovereign.
  • (gaming, chiefly, role-playing games) Magical power.
  • * 2007 , "bear", Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres....'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.angband )
  • Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn!
  • * 2010 , Ernest Adams, Fundamentals of Game Design (page 580)
  • Mana often grows in exponential proportion to population size, so as the population increases the player acquires vastly greater powers—a progression that god games share with spellcaster characters in role-playing games.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ancient unit of weight or currency)
  • Anagrams

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    manas

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (theosophy etc ) the mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals
  • Derived terms

    * manasic

    Anagrams

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