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init. As Low As Reasonably Achievable
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Alara may refer to:
- ALARA, an acronym for "As Low As Reasonably Achievable"
- Alara (bug), an insect genus in the family Derbidae
- Alara Castle, a medieval castle in Alanya, southern Turkey
- Alara (fairy), a lake creature from Turkic mythology
- Alara of Nubia, the unifier of Kush
- Alara Kalama, a hermit saint and a teacher of yogic meditation
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Alara block, a block of card expansions for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
- Shards of Alara, first expansion set of that block
- Alara Reborn, last expansion set of that block
- Alara Wholefoods, an English whole foods company, based in London.
- Alara app,Alara - UV Index by Lee Morgan. Application for determining UV (ultraviolet) radiation exposure for the day
Alara (Azerbaijanese: ӘЛӘРӘ, Tatar: ӘЛЕРӘ) is a water fairy from Turkic mythology. ӘЛӘРӘ is also referenced in the mythelogies of Siberian peoples and told in the folklore and elders' stories among the Yakut people.
Said to originate from Lake Baikal and made of the love tears of a thousand women, Alara takes the appearance of a beautiful little girl with butterfly-like wings made of light but sprinkle water as she beats them to hover above the lake. Her beauty and youth depend on water so she must always remain close to water sources. She has the power to remove hate and greed from people's hearts and hence make them capable of true love. Those who seek Alara's help must travel to a lake where she was last seen and tie a colorfull ribbon on the branch of a blooming lakeside tree. If the ribbon was cut from a handkerchief last used to wipe off the tears of a heartbroken person, the wish becomes more likely to come true. Wishes must be made under a cloudless night sky shortly before dawn. Alara then answers the wish maker with a light breeze, a shooting star, a light show of bioluminescent algae or by outright manifesting herself and even talking to the wish maker.
Usage examples of "alara".
Myre, on the other hand, seemed disinclined to do more than toddle to the edge of her little nursery-cave, or to the store of torn-up meat Alara had left for her.
The 'tonic' Alara took twice a day kept her just a little vague about the passage of time, and my recently found skill at implanting some memories and erasing others made it all the easier for us to control her perception of time.
When she was researching the war at Father Dragon's urging, Alara herself had been forced to read between the lines to discover how much damage had actually been done, by finding the rolls of the dead, and the account of destruction of property as noted in the surveys at the end of the war.
Then Olane smugly showed off Ildera's wedding gown, and Alara began to chew on her own liver over that.
After all, Alara had been teaching her with an eye to just that development.