Themis, a study of the social origins of Greek ... - Warburg Institute

74 The Kouretes, Thunder-Rites mid Mana [ch. in
begets in him such conceptions as mana, orenda, Wa-ko?i'-da,
Kratos and Bia. We now pass to man's attempt, at first collec-
tive, then individual, to control these forces, to what we might
conveniently call the manipulation of mana 1
, or, to use current
phraseology, we pass to the consideration of magic and its negative
social counterpart tabu.
1 I have adopted mana rather than Wa-kow'-da as a general term for impersonal
force because it is already current and also because its content is perhaps somewhat
less specialized and mystical.