Sacred M-N Sound

Mana was a moniker given by the first Indo-European language speakers to the energy we exchange when we communicate.

Mana was a moniker given by the first Indo-European language speakers to the energy we exchange when we communicate.

This mantic meaning, through semantic spread, came to colonise the signifier for the Moon (meh₁nṓt is the contemporary spelling of the sound Ancient Ukrainians used to signify the Moon in the Proto-Indo-European language from which all the Indo-European languages we speak today evolved).

Mana (vitality / soul / spirit / geist / (miraculous) lifeforce / strength / active principle / authority / wealth, in a variety of languages and religions connected to the Indo-European world (including in the pacific region, which was in sustained contact with Indo-European India from earliest times)). See, too, the early Indo-European word / meaning / sound from which ‘Indra’ and ‘India’ emanated: *ner-(t-) 'vitality, mana, (miraculous) life force, human, strength.'

The light that luminesced through the Moon became an apt metaphor to illuminate what distinguishes us humans from inanimate objects - our vitality, life force, subtle energy, our mind - so we became known as human.

Over time, Mana’s existence, as an energy we exchange constantly with other sentient beings, was forgotten about.

It’s immanent though still in some of the most fundamental signifiers we use in Indo-European languages in practically every sentence we speak - like every word in bold here (https://powerofmana.substack.com/p/sacred-m-n-sound) that sacred M-N- sound remains!

Yet, Mana’s presence in the name for our species is a testament to how early humans recognised its importance to us all. In fact, the sacred M-N- sound in hundreds of English words which evolved from the first Indo-Europeans’ vocabulary is itself evidence of the Power of Mana.

I call this immanence in our everyday language today Reversion to the Moon [-based metaphorical semantic system].

My starting point for rediscovering Mana was noticing that, according to stories passed down to us across millennia, the names of founding deities / monarchs in a heap of Indo-European cultures contained the same M-N- sound in their name - Mannus (Germanic), Manannán and Érimón (Irish), Manawydan (Wales), Menua (Armenia), Minerva (Greece), Manú (Indic), Aryamana (Iranian), Manǔs (Indo-Iranian),…

That these Indo-European cultures all evolved from a common source language is a matter linguists have been clear on for two-hundred-years.

Therefore it was likely, my founding hypothesis held, that the immanence of this sacred M-N- sound in some of the most foundational stories, concepts, meanings (meaning is what shines through signifiers/words), signifiers, characters, and words also came from a common source - thus my insight about the light shining through the Moon being the foundational Moon-based metaphor that I call Reversion to the Moon (in imitation of the statistical concept that is the foundation of modern neural network computing as well as in the propagation of Disinformation in our culture - Reversion to the Mean).

Eventually, I even noticed that this M-N- sound inverts into “Name,” Anima, Animal, Animate, Anim (‘Name” in Irish), Numitor (Romulus and Remus’s grandfather) and Numa (Romulus’s successor as a founder of Roman culture). Inverting sounds is not just common in contemporary French slang form of Verlan, as a phenomenon, it’s immanent in all Indo-European languages!

Why do I call M-N- the “Sacred Sound”?

Well, in one of Indo-European cultures most prominent religious manifestations for which we have early textual evidence - the core of the Vedic religion is immanent in the Ṛg Veda, which is a collection of songs that was first written down in India around 1,100 BCE - Oṃ is the sacred sound / mantra from which the universe emanated.

By analogy since this M-N- sound I use Mana to communicate is immanent in much religious vocabulary in contemporary English, I think it’s worthy of the sacred moniker:

Communion, Communicant, Dominion, Mantra, Sacrament, Matrimony, Ceremony, Patrimony, Hymn, Mahayana, Mañjuśrī (god of wisdom in the Dalai Lama’s tradition of Mahayana Buddhism), Mission, Seminary, Numen (ancient Rome’s ancient religion), Demon, Brahmanas, Brahmin, Mandala, oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ, Temenos, omen, amen, Cédshamhain (early Irish name for religious celebration of summer), Samhain (early Irish name for 1st November and the celebration of winter), ecumenical, Mound / Mountain, Flamines (ancient Roman priestly caste), minister, Muni (sage or priest in Sanskrit as in Śākyamuni, an epithet for the Buddha), Angra Mainyu (destructive mind/spirit) & Spəṇta Mainyu (holy/creative spirit/mentality), manifest, manna, Amhain (‘soul’ in early Irish), Manes (‘soul’ in Latin), ātman (the self / soul / eternal, unchanging essence of the person/identical to brahman), commandments, Manuiscihr ("seed" or "son" of Manuš in ancient Iranian), Minos, Mantle (fire/cloak), Monk / Monastery, Vohu Manah (Ancient Iran - Magical aspect of sovereignty function), Bramaṇā (magic word formula), Karmān (“karma” is what linguists call an ‘inflection’ of Karmān, the law of cause and effect that governs all existence in Buddhism), "Dies Dominica" "Day of Our Lord" / Dimanche / Seventh Day, from 300 CE in Rome), and Mani (Manicheans), Mania (mother of the dead souls)...

Hopefully, I’ve demonstrated at least a superficial case for why the M-N- sound deserves the moniker “sacred”! Mana is also key as the practical underlying concept in what I call the “Mana Method of parsing Disinfolklore” in Counter Disinfolklore (

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From these insights my research into Power of Mana was inspired. And what I found immanent in this sacred M-N- sound is astonishing. And its use in solving some of the most previously intractable problems afflicting our civilisation (such as how to defend democracy against consent-hacking Disinfolklore) is only becoming clearer to me as I elucidate the many dimensions of this M-N- sound in almost every sentence we speak in an Indo-European language (note how all the words in bold in https://powerofmana.substack.com/p/sacred-m-n-sound contain this sacred M-N- sound).

There are mysteries too which I am currently travelling to uncover, such as the relationship between the ancient Egyptian predilection too for the sacred M-N- sound, like Amon Re (their deity around the time the ancient Egyptian Amarna letters (1,400 BCE) were written that catalogued Indo-Europeans spread across Judea, Anatolia, and the Fertile Crescent).

The M-N- sound was already embedded and too deeply entrenched across the Indo-European cultural zone before its contact and interaction with ancient Egypt for either cultural zone to have determined the other's widespread use of the sacred M-N- sound in some of its most fundamental meanings and signifiers (note that the language of the Egyptian ruling class at the time of the Rosetta Stone was Ancient Greek (one of the three languages in the Rosetta Stone is Greek), an Indo-European language ultimately evolved from ancient Ukrainian/Proto-Indo-European). So I shall be writing about my exploration of these mysteries too.

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