people will just use polynesian words completely incorrectly with completely made up meanings while being really offensive and won’t even care huh lol
mana isn’t a stand-in word for magicka, it’s a specific word for a very specific and very fundamental part of polynesian belief systems that has literally absolutely nothing to do with anything even remotely similar to “magicka”. it’s not pronounced “man-uh”, it’s pronounced “muhnuh” if anything. it’s impossible to explain in a few sentences but mana describes your prestige, power, importance, and status in society. it’s not something to use in a stupid video game to tell people you’ve run out of magic power and need to recharge.
tiki isn’t some random word, tiki is the first human in some (not all) māori iwi beliefs. “tiki bars” are the culmination of white USamerican soldiers being stationed in the south pacific during the world wars, missing our culture when they leave, and forcing hawai'i and other north polynesian groups to cater to them despite not having anything labelled “tiki” in their beliefs. the closest is the hawaiian ki'i. polynesians didn’t even have alcohol before european colonisation (except for one or two very specific drinks in one single culture), tiki bars are purely the result of white soldiers wanting south polynesian culture closer to the USA.
to add onto the previous paragraph, tiki is an atua (the closest translation is a deity but it’s not the same, just understand it has that level of importance) in te ao māori. if people are talking about “tiki totems” at best they’re talking about tekoteko, an extremely sacred form of carving that represents a real life ancestor. any real tekoteko being sold are the moral equivalent of our real ancestors being sold.
like can people please just think about the words they’re using for once. our cultures aren’t a fucking joke and we aren’t some theoretical group that never actually interacts with the rest of the world. we’re here and we’re reading your posts lol. stop saying mana when you mean magicka and stop using tiki bars as an aesthetic altogether.