Mane can have the following meanings: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...
The mane of a horse is used to describe the line of hair along the spine of the neck, starting behind the ears and ending just above the withers.
The mane may also refer to the mane of a lion, found on the male animal's neck.
Mane is the name of several communes in France: The mane runs from the withers to the poll. ... The withers is the highest point on an animals back, on the ridge between its shoulder blades. ... Binomial name (Linnaeus, 1758) Distribution of Lions in Africa Synonyms Felis leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The lion (Panthera leo) is a member of the family Felidae and one of four big cats in the genus Panthera. ... The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
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When a body was consumed on the funeral pyre, relations and friends invoked the deceased as a divinity, and the law of the Twelve Tables prescribed that the rights of the divine Manes should be respected, and that each man should regard the dead members of his family as gods.
The Manes were then believed to issue forth, and these days were regarded as religiosithat is, all important business in public and private life was suspended.
There was considerable analogy between the Manes and the received idea of souls and there was a corresponding idea that they could be conjured up and appear as ghosts.
Manes, born in western Persia (approximately 210-275 A.D.), was a religious preacher and the founder of Manichaeism, an ancient gnostic religion that was once prolific but now considered nonexistent.
Manes was eager to describe himself as a "disciple of Jesus Christ", but the orthodox church rejected him as a heretic.
Manes declared himself, and was also referred to, as the Paraclete: a Biblical title, meaning "helper", which the Orthodox tradition understood as referring to God in the person of the Holy Spirit).
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