What is Your orenda?

Orenda is a name for a spiritual power inherent in people and their environment. Orenda was deemed a motive force in such things as the drive behind miracles, divination, prophecy, blessing, cursing, prayer, and superstitions.

For the Iroquois a shaman was considered to be "one whose orenda is great, powerful", while a hunter's orenda determined whether he was successful in overcoming the orenda of the game. In conflicts between nations, orenda determined the outcome.

​19th and 20th century scholars compared the concept of orenda to that of mana. Mana, in Austronesian languages, means "power", "effectiveness", and "prestige".