Mara
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Mara may mean:
Zoology
- Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family
Demographics
- Mara people, in southern part of Mizoram, a state of the Republic of India and Chin State and Rakhine State of western part of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma
- Mara people (Australia), an Australian Aboriginal tribe
- Mara Salvatrucha, a violent street gang in Central America and the United States.
- Maravar a dominant caste of people in Tamil nadu state in India.
People
- John Andrew Mara, a 19th century politician, rancher and merchant in the Canadian province of British Columbia
- Mara Wilson, child actress
- Martti Ahtisaari, a career diplomat and former President of Finland, nickname of
- Maria, in the Croatian language, a nickname for
Geography
- Mara, Tanzania, an administrative region of Tanzania
- Mara, Italy, an Italian commune in the province of Sassari in the island of Sardinia
- Mara, South Africa, a small town in South Africa
- Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
- Masai Mara, a reserve near the Mara River
- Mara River (Romania), a river in Romania
- Mara, Spain, a municipality (pop. 199) in the Spanish province of Zaragoza or Saragossa, in the autonomous community of Aragon
Religion/Mythology/Culture
- Mara (goddess): a Goddess in Latvian mythology
- Mara (folklore): a creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore, thought to cause nightmares.
- "Mara" or "Marena" (in Belarusian mythology): the god of darkness and death.
- Naomi called herself Mara, meaning "bitterness", after she suffered the deaths of her husband and her two sons; see Book of Ruth.
- A nickname for Tamara
- Mara is a Sanskrit and Pali word meaning death-bringing or the destroying.
- * Mara (Hindu goddess): goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
- * Mara (demon): a demon of the Buddhist cosmology.
- * Sri Mara or Mara Varma is a honorific title of Pandya kings of South India
- * In Hindu mythology, Valmiki was told to chant mara as a mantra in order to become rich. Valmiki found himself chanting rama rama rama instead of mara mara mara, and thus was enlightened.
Fiction
- The Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials, Kinda and Snakedance.
- Marller ("Mara"), a demon in the manga and anime series Oh My Goddess!
- Mara Jade, a fictional character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
- the lead character in the Raymond E. Feist/Janny Wurts "Empire" Trilogy (Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire).
- one of the two homeworlds of the Exotics in the Childe Cycle, written by Gordon R. Dickson
- a Goddess in the video game series The Elder Scrolls, worshipped in nearly all the various religions as a mother goddess and goddess of love
- "Mara, Lord of Illusion", a powerful character in Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light
- a sorceress from the planet Sagar, the central planet featured in the Filmation animated series, BlackStar.
- in the fiction of David Eddings, see Deities in The Belgariad
Company
- Majlis Amanah Rakyat, literally People's Trust Council, is a government linked company in Malaysia.
Dentistry
- MARA, an appliance mounted to the molars used to correct an over/underbite
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