Mara

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Mara may refer to:

Social groups

  • Mara people, in northeastern India and western Myanmar
  • Mara language, a language spoken by Mara people
  • Mara Salvatrucha, a violent criminal gang in Mexico, Central America, Canada, and the United States
  • Maravar, a dominant caste in Tamil Nadu state in India
  • Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh

People

Places

Culture

  • Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
  • Mara (folklore), a specter or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore
  • Mara, also Marzanna, Murava, Morana, Moréna or Morena, in Slavic peoples mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror
  • Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
  • Mara (demon), a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation
  • Sri Mara or Mara Varma, an honorific title of the Pandya kings of south India
  • In Hindu mythology, a mantra told to Valmiki to chant
  • Mara, an abbreviation of Mayura (Sanskrit word for peacock)

Fiction

  • The Mara (Doctor Who), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
  • in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson, one of the two homeworlds of the Exotics

Organisations

Other

See also