Mana

texts and words and sounds that gives them outsized effect on the people they encounter.

I use the word mana as the shortest working English term for that universal observation in a deliberate echo of Manu, the first human in Indian culture, and Manus, the first human in Germanic tradition, and of Manannan, the preeminent pre-Christian deity in Irish, pre-Christian Irish tradition, or Manawadan in Welsh, or Menua in the Armenian, or Manavas in the Armenian language.

So mana seemed like the right word for it.

But really, it is describing this universal quality.

All daughter cultures of the Proto-Indo-European route first spoken on the Ukrainian steppe at Mykolaivka village in Kherson, just over the border from Dnipro and Zaporizhia, roughly 6,000 years ago.

And manna sits at the headwaters of the river, the Don and the Donets and the Dniester and the Danube.

Mana, Chi, Prana, Newman, Bien, Relapse, Kavarna, Grace, X-Energy.

This is all the same phenomenon observed independently by every cognitively serious human tradition.