Mara

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[edit] Social groups

  • Mara people, in northeastern India and western Myanmar
  • Mara people (Australia), a tribe of indigenous Australians or Aborigines
  • Mara Salvatrucha, a violent street gang in Mexico, Central America, and the United States
  • Maravar a dominant caste in Tamil Nadu state in India
  • MARA Mature Age Recruitment Alliance. An alliance of guilds for the over 30's playing the free online game Guild Wars

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  • Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
  • Mara (folklore), a wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore, thought to cause nightmares.
  • Mara, also Marena and Morana, in Slavic peoples mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror
  • Naomi (Bible), self-named Mara, meaning "bitterness", after she suffered the deaths of her husband and her two sons
  • Mara, a Sanskrit and Pali word meaning death-bringing or the destroying
    • 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

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  • Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family
  • Mara the Lioness, animal actor in the movie Born Free
  • Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
  • MARA, a dental appliance used to correct an over or underbite
  • MARA (Law), the Michigan Antitrust Reform Act, passed in 1984