Alma

Alma has the following meanings:

1. The Book of Alma (part of the book in the Book of Mormon)
2. Alma the Elder, a character in the Book of Alma
3. Alma the Younger, the son of Alma the Elder
4. Almas is also a Mongolian name for wild man (singular), a cryptid hair-covered (except for hands and face) hominid species said to live in the Pamir mountains, and the Altai mountains of southern Mongolia. British anthropologist Myra Shackley, in Still Living? 1983 ISBN 0-500-01298-9, documents Ivan Lvlov's 1963 observation of a family of Almas. Ivlov's driver also saw them. Ivlov, a pediatrician, decided to interview the children who were also his patients, and discovered that many of them had also seen the Almas. Neither the Mongol children nor the Almas children were afraid of each other (page 91). Hans Schildtberger's 1430 journal of his involuntary travels to Mongolia, as a prisoner of the Mongols, currently in the manuscripts section of the Munich municipal library, documents his personal observation of these creatures, as well as Przewalski horses. Nicolai Przewalski also observed wildmen in Mongolia 1871. Almas are part of the Mongolian and Tibetan apothecary, documented along with thousands of other animals, which live today. Shackley has speculated that the Almas are a remnant population of Neanderthals.
5. Alma, Palestine was a village destroyed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
6. Alma, Quebec is a town in Quebec, Canada
7. The Alma is a river in Crimea.