 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1878 - 418 oldal
...any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses. This Mana is not fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything ; but spirits, whether...it, though it may act through the medium of water, or a stone, or a bone. All Melanesian religion, in fact, consists in getting this Mana for one's self,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1878 - 422 oldal
...any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses. This Mana is not fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything ; but spirits, whether...it, though it may act through the medium of water, or a stone, or a bone. All Melanesian religion, in fact, consists in getting this Mana for one's self,... | |
 | 1879 - 428 oldal
...anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything ; but spirits, whether disembodied souls or supernatm-al beings, have it, and can impart it ; and it essentially...beings to originate it, though it may act through the medinm of water, or a stone, or a bone. All Melanesian religion, in fact, consists in getting this... | |
 | 1880 - 420 oldal
...any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses. This Mana is not fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything ; but spirits, whether...it, though it may act through the medium of water, or a stone, or a bone. All Melanesian religion, in fact, consists in getting this Mana for one's self,... | |
 | 1891 - 690 oldal
...any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses. This "Mana" is not fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything; but spirits, whether...it, though it may act through the medium of water, or a stone, or a bone."1 Once more; it "works to effect everything which is beyond the ordinary power... | |
 | Robert Henry Codrington - 1891 - 478 oldal
...any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses. This Mana is not fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything ; but spirits, whether...belongs to personal beings to originate it, though it in. iy act through the medium of water, or a stone, or a bone. All Melanesian religion consists, in... | |
 | Robert Henry Codrington - 1891 - 456 oldal
...any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses. This Mana is not fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything ; but spirits, whether...impart it ; and it essentially belongs to personal beingH to originate it, though it may act through the medium of water, or a stone, or a bone. All Melanesian... | |
 | 1892 - 928 oldal
...a man may possess. " This mana is not fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost everything ; but spirits, whether disembodied souls or supernatural...it, though it may act through the medium of water or a stone or a bone. AH Melanesian religion consists, in fact, in getting this mana for one's self,... | |
 | 1894 - 368 oldal
...any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses. This Mana is not "fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything; but spirits, whether..."it, though it may act through the medium of water, or a stone, or a bone. All Melanesian religion "consists, in fact, in getting this Mana for one's self,... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - 1894 - 574 oldal
...being occupying a very elevated place in the world. . . . This mana is not fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything ; but spirits, whether...supernatural beings, have it and can impart it, and it essentiallv belongs to personal beings to originate it, though it may act throngh tho medium of water,... | |
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It is a power or influence, not physical, and in a way supernatural; but it shows "itself in physical force , or in any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses. This Mana is not "fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything; but... 
