Note 821 — Chapter IV · MAGIC AND RELIGION
Reading edition
R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 191 sq. The word mana is Polynesian as well as Melanesian. In the Maori language it means “authority,” especially “supernatural power,” “divine authority,” “having qualities which ordinary persons or things do not possess.” See E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Wellington, N.Z., 1891), p. 203. Compare R. Taylor, Te Ika A Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants,² p. 184, “the mana, virtue of the god.”