Mana

Mana may refer to:

Religion and mythology

• Mana (Oceanian cultures), the spiritual life force energy or healing power that permeates the universe in Melanesian and Polynesian mythology
• Mana (food), archaic name for manna, an edible substance mentioned in the Bible and Quran
• Mana (Mandaeism), a term roughly equivalent to the philosophical concept of 'nous'
• Māna, a Buddhist term for 'pride', 'arrogance', or 'conceit'
• Mana (Finnish mythology), or Tuonela, the realm of the dead or the underworld

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

• Maná, a Mexican rock group
  • Maná (album), 1987
• Mana (Nemesea album), 2004
• Mana (Finnish musician), drummer of the rock band Lordi
• Mana (Japanese musician)
• Mana, Japanese musician and vocalist of the band Chai
• Mana Mana, a Finnish rock group
• Mana Music, a music supervision company based in Australia and New Zealand

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

• Mana (gaming), or magic, an attribute assigned to characters in role-playing or video games
• Mana (series), a role-playing game series
• Mana, a title serialized in South Korean manhwa magazine Wink
• Mana (magazine), an Estonian magazine published outside Estonia

People

See also: § Music

• Mana (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
• Florent Parfait Mana, Malagasy politician
• Laura Mañá (born 1968), Spanish film director
• Mohammed Mana (born 1950), Nigerian politician
• Rabbi Mana II, a Jewish Amora sage

Places

Communities

• Mana, Burkina Faso
• Mana (woreda), Ethiopia
• Mana, French Guiana
• Mana, India
• Mana, Orhei, Moldova
• Mana, New Zealand
  • Mana railway station
  • Mana (New Zealand electorate)
• Maná, Corozal, Puerto Rico
• Mana (Ivanjica), Serbia
• Maňa, Slovakia
• La Maná Canton, Ecuador

Features

• Mana (river), Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
• Mana (French Guiana), a river
• Måna, a river in Tinn, Norway
• Mana Island (Fiji)
• Mana Island (New Zealand)
• Mana Mountain, Antarctica
• Mana Pass, a mountain pass between India and Tibet
• Mana Peak, a mountain in India

Other uses

• Mana (Jungian psychology), an archetypal figure of the wise old person
• Mana Movement, formerly the Mana Party, in New Zealand
• Mana Party (India)
• Mana College, in Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand
• Illam, or Mana, the house of a Nambudiri Brahmin in Kerala, India; or, metaphorically, the family lineage

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Mana
• All pages with titles containing Mana
• Mana and Mani, a 1979 children's opera
• MANA (disambiguation)
• MaNa (disambiguation)
• Manas (disambiguation)
• Manna (disambiguation)
• Jana Gana Mana (disambiguation), the national anthem of India