To finish off today’s theme of “mythology” I wrote a post on the Polynesian concept of mana. Check it out at historical-nonfiction.com
Interesting, but why do you talk about mana as if it is in the past? Mana is very much alive in New Zealand and is used to talk about powerful and respected people (especially Maori people) all the time. Here in NZ, we just say “tapu” without the s, but of course I can’t speak for all of Polynesia. Mana and tapu aren’t historical concepts.
aye historical-nonfiction you should really amend your post. Don’t talk about mana in the past - you wouldn’t talk about mindfulness or prayer or spiritual energy in the past tense, and though those concepts don’t really have anything to do with mana, it’s the same principle: you should talk about a concept/practice/reality that IS an important part of several different cultures in the PRESENT TENSE. I’m sure if you check out the posts of nerdfaceangst you’ll get a lot of relevant info to correct your post.
^^^^^^^Listen to the Polynesian people there.
The main reason people think it’s ok to use ‘mana’ outside of its meaning is that they think it’s in the past and not relevant to anyone anymore.
They are wrong.
We Hawaiians still exchange Mana … It is most certainly not okay to say that it is in the past. It is integral to Pacific Islanders and is very prevalent in our cultures.
First off: sorry. I did not mean to imply that mana is not still used today. I used the literary past tense when talking about mythology in all my posts yesterday. For instance, I described in past tense Aboriginal beliefs about how the world started, and Hindu beliefs about a great flood, both of which are very much believed today. It was a stylistic choice that was not meant to imply anything. For the future, I will try to be careful about using present tense for present beliefs – and please let me know if I slip up!
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