Máni – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Mani
Mani may refer to:
People
- Mani (name), a given name and surname (including a list of people with the name)
- Mani people, a Negrito ethnic group from Thailand
Maní
The word
Maní may refer to:
Geography:
Máni
Máni (
Old Norse/
Icelandic "moon") is the personification of the
moon in
Norse mythology. Máni, personified, is attested in the
Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the
Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by
Snorri Sturluson. Both sources state that he is the brother of the personified sun,
Sól, and the son of
Mundilfari, while the
Prose Edda adds that he is followed by the children
Hjúki and Bil through the heavens. As a
proper noun, Máni appears throughout Old Norse literature. Scholarly theories have been proposed about Máni's potential connection to the
Northern European notion of the
Man in the Moon, and a potentially otherwise unattested story regarding Máni through
skaldic kennings.
Mâni
Mâni is a form of Turkish folk song in
quatrains.
mano
nf.
hand, deal, game, side, fist, coat, lead
mani
n.
obstacle, hindrance, impediment, crimp, disincentive, slashing
Mani
[Norse] In Norse myth, Mani is the personification of the moon, son of Mundilfari and brother of Sol, the sun. At night he rides a chariot pulled by horses through the sky, and determines its waxing and waning. Mani is chased by the wolf Hati ("hate"). Whenever the wolf managed to catch the moon, a lunar eclipse would take place. This caused great consternation, and by making a lot of noise people tried to scare the wolf away. A man named Vidfinn had two children named Hjuki and Bil. He sent them to the well Byrgir to fetch a cask of water. When Mani saw the two children he took them away with him to the moon. The two children, together with their cask and pole, can be seen on the face of the moon (the moon spots).
Manichaeans
Manichaeans A sect which originated in the 3rd century in Persia and rapidly diffused itself in Mesopotamia and beyond the Oxus, lasting under one or another form down to the 13th century. Its founder was Mani, said to have been a Persian, whose name in Greek became Manes or Manichaios. Little can be ascertained about him, but he is said to have been a natural mystic, conscious of a mission, and endowed with the breadth of view and concentrated zeal characteristic of the founders of systems. He successfully amalgamated the religious, philosophical, and mystical ideas of his time and surrounding countries into a coherent system adapted to the tastes of the age.
The salient feature of Manichaeism is its uncompromising dualism, for it recognized a world of light and a world of darkness as eternally coeval; and there is a God of light opposed to a hostile Satan. Teachings of the esoteric gnosis as taught by Neoplatonists, Gnostics, and others were materialized, and both doctrine and ritual assumed forms less exacting and therefore better calculated for perpetuation in an age of increasing materialism. It showed little affinity for Christianity or facility for combination with it, and Manichaeism and Christianity may be regarded as Oriental and Occidental products of the same materializing influence transforming and adapting the original gnosis. It has more affinity with Gnostic than with ecclesiastical Christianity, for there was a large amount of truly esoteric thought and teaching in what for centuries passed under the name of Manichaeism.
