Hands — transmission

craft, greeting and enacted efficacy

Hands are included as an action locus because efficacy is enacted through greeting, craft, ritual and healing practices. The anatomical-right placement is a front-view convention, not a claim about a single body centre.

Head — tapu locusBelly — mana centreNavel — connection gateFeet — noa releaseHands — transmissionHands — transmission

Point 5 of 5 in Polynesian Mana Body

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

W. D. Handy, Polynesian Religion (scholarly_modern)

E. S. Craighill Handy, The Native Culture in the Marquesas (scholarly_modern)

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