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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1117351" data-attributes="member: 6929">According to Oxford:Power, authority, prestige (chiefly NZ); an impersonal supernatural power which can be associated with people or with objects and which can be transmitted or inherited.That doesn't cover the connotations of mana's link with the land on which the people in question live, however, but I'm not really an expert on such philosophies so I'll leave it at that. (I also can't perform any haka and don't play rugby. And I call myself a New Zealander...)I think it's entered the fantasy lexicon via Magic: The Gathering, around 1993, which treats mana as... well, it's difficult to figure out, even from the novels; in theory, it's power drawn from land or power with the flavour of such land, but I've seen it referred to as 'memories of your homeland' and it can be drawn from individual creatures too. Anyway, that's understandably close to the original meaning of the word.After Magic, however, mana becomes a general term for raw mystic power with none of the proper conotations.Or am I neglecting an earlier incidence of mana that I'm unaware of?And OT, I don't quite know how to pronuctuate mana, but Alyssa Milano? Wasn't she in Melrose Place or 90210 or something before Charmed? I've only actually seen one other thing with her in it, and that's some B-grade vampire movie from the mid-early 90s that probably falls under "Art" more than Horror. (Note heavy use of inverted commas.) Shadow of the Vampire, I believe it was called.Let's just say that pronuctuation could be... interesting.</blockquote>

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