In ancient Roman religion, Mana Genita or Geneta Mana was the goddess who could determine whether infants were born alive or dead.

" Accordingly, just as the Greeks sacrifice a bitch to Hecatê, even so do the Romans offer the same sacrifice to Geneta on behalf of the members of their household.

Her name would seem to connect her to the Manes, or spirits of the dead, but is also comparable to the Oscan Deiua Geneta ( birth goddess ).

Is it because Geneta is a spirit concerned with the generation and birth of beings that perish?

Formed by Mana and Közi, the band's name stands for " malice and misery ", extracted from " nothing but a being of malice and misery " — their reply to the question " what is human ?".

When the interviewer went to Mana and asked him what he was doing and why he was sitting that way, he replied " It's cute ".

Attempts have been made to connect both " Omanus " and " Haman " with the Zoroastrian term Vohu Mana ; however this denotes the principle of " Good Thoughts " and is not the name of a deity.

* 1911 – " Jana Gana Mana ", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of India, by Rabindranath Tagore is largely credited for uniting India through music.

Mana is only required by characters with skill in magic, and is calculated according to the character's intelligence and magic attributes.

Final Fantasy Adventure, known as Mystic Quest in Europe and as in Japan, is a Final Fantasy spinoff and the first game in the Mana series.

This system is used in many other later Mana titles.

The world is threatened by a " Dark Lord " who conquers for Mana to rule supreme over the land.

" Jana Gana Mana " (, ) is the national anthem of India.

The collection is also known as the Shōbōgenzō Sanbyakusoku ( The Three Hundred Verse Shōbōgenzō ”) and the Mana Shōbōgenzō, where mana is an alternative reading of shinji.

Acca Larentia is also identified with Larentina, Mana Genita, and Muta.

Mana is an indigenous Pacific islander concept of an impersonal force or quality that resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects.

Mana is a common word in Pacific indigenous languages and more recently a New Zealand English word.

In Hawaiian culture, Mana is a form of a spiritual energy and also healing power which can exist in places, objects and persons.

Mana in Hawaiian culture is a popular topic of everyday discourse.

Mana is a limited resource in Niven's work, a fact which eventually will lead to the end of all magic in his antediluvian fantasy setting when all mana is depleted.

( Mana which means " the mane " is a common name for many mountains in Norway, where the form of the mountain is compared with the mane of a horse.

India's anthem, " Jana Gana Mana ", is in a highly Sanskritized version of Bengali.

Mana, Marett states, is a concentrated form of animatistic force found within any of these objects that confer power, strength, and success.

The Mana series, known in Japan as, is a medieval-fantasy action role-playing game series from Square Enix, created by Koichi Ishii.

The Mana series is the result of Koichi Ishii's desire to create a fictional world.

In Ishii's opinion, Mana is not a series of video games, but rather a world which is illustrated by and can be explored through video games.

The results were not always favorable to Māori, who have communicated their discontent to the monarch or other royals ; in response to a refusal by the Executive Council in 1981 to allow Mana Motuhake direct access to Queen Elizabeth II, Māori activist Dun Mihaka offered a traditional rebuke by baring his buttocks at Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

Nevertheless, some of the earliest co-op action RPGs were console titles, including the TurboGrafx-16 game Dungeon Explorer ( 1989 ) by Atlus which allowed up to five players to play simultaneously, and Square's Secret of Mana ( 1993 ) for the Super Nintendo which offered two-and three-player action once the main character had acquired his party members.

This then causes the player character to grow in power as his or her HP and Mana increases.

Of all her compositions, Shimomura considers the soundtrack to Legend of Mana the one that best expresses herself and the soundtrack remains Shimomura's personal favourite.

In the online game, Grand Chase, one of the characters named Mari Ming Onette portrays her 4th job system as the communicator of the gods, or the Geas which can either cancel attacks, skills and raise her defense greatly with her Mana restorators, regenerators, barriers and her machinery weapon, the Soul Taker.

As a result, several dragons play an important role in the manga, most notably Mana and her father, Titan.

When Kopu founded her own party, Mana Wahine Te Ira Tangata in support of the government, Anderton suggested that the new party's creation smacked of corruptionas a party leader rather than a mere independent, Kopu received an additional $ 80, 000 in funding.

Her name links her to the Manes, Mana Genita, and Manius.

After a short time as an independent MP, Kopu established Mana Wahine as her own party.

After spending some time as an independent, Kopu decided to establish her own political party, Mana Wahine Te Ira Tangata.

Throughout the game, Asuka Langley Soryu is constantly jealous of Shinji and Mana, consistent with her widely-speculated romantic feelings for Shinji.

In discussion with Misato, however, it is agreed that Mana has to leave Tokyo-3, and she says a teary goodbye to Shinji who has won her heart.

Asuka has moved on with her life and the final shot is Shinji and Mana holding hands as Mana says ' thankyou '.

Just under him was the scientist Mana ( Catherine Disher, whose husband also played a major role in a Season 1 episode ) with Ardix ( Julian Richings who appeared briefly in “ He Feedeth Among the Lillies ”) as her assistant.

By the time the Germans landed 48 British and French merchant seamen from sunken prizes it had become clear to all that World War I had broken out, and Routledge complained sharply of this infringement of neutral Chilean territory to the schoolmaster in his capacity as representative of the Government of Chile ; whilst her husband sailed the Mana to Valparaiso to pass on a similar complaint to the British Consul in Santiago.

So that her spell may continue and Altena does not freeze over, she, with her assistant wizard Koren, decides to invade other nations to claim their Mana Stones.

Before starting the invasion, Valda and her right hand Koren want to unleash the power of their own Mana Stone of water.

As Angela seems to be the only person in Altena not being able to use magic, the queen oppresses her daughter to sacrifice herself to the ancient spell which would unlock the power of Mana kept in the Stone, and so, doing a first step in opening the way to the infinite power in the Sword of Mana, saving the magical kingdom in turn.

Following it, it reveals itself to be a Faerie from the Mana Sanctuary ( Mana Holyland in the fan-translation ), exhausted by her journey.