Mani (in the prophetic literature usually MAANI) is one of the named spirits of the air of the Nuer, particularly associated with war. Evans-Pritchard records its honorific ox-names luthpara and bilcuany and notes that the western Nuer regard it as a divinity of foreign origin which came to them from somewhere to the north. Mani is the most celebrated divinity of the western Nuer: in the late nineteenth century it seized Kolang Ket, whose cattle byre stood near Koch, and after his death in government custody in 1925 it seized his daughter Nyaruac Kolang ('daughter of speech'), who remained the most powerful spiritual authority west of the Nile until her death in the 1970s. The prophets of Mani wielded influence from Bentiu in the north to Mayendit and Ler in the south, over matters of war and peace, life and death, justice and healing.