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Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils. People place pairs of shisa on their rooftops or flanking the gates to their houses, with the left shisa traditionally having a closed mouth, the right one an open mouth. [1] The open mouth shisa traditionally wards off evil spirits, and the closed mouth shisa keeps good spirits in.
The shīsā (シーサー), the stone animals that in Okinawa guard the gates or the roofs of houses, are close relatives of the shishi and the komainu, objects whose origin, function and symbolic meaning they share. [21] Their name itself is centuries old regional variant of shishi-san (獅子さん, lit. ' Mr. Lion '). [5]
The mouth closed shisa is thus saying "nn" or "mm" as the end of the same alphabet. There is little evidence supporting this theory, but the unique similarities are striking. It is possible that the Japanese and other parts of Asia have deeper roots to the Western world than archeological records indicate.
Eldonioids are characterized by their "medusoid" (jellyfish-shaped) bodies, with the form of a shallow dome opening below to an offset mouth supplemented by filamentous tentacles. [1] Internally, they have a distinctive C-shaped cavity encompassing the gut, as well as hollow radial (radiating) structures arranged around a central ring canal.
Shisa The Okinawan version of the shishi. Shishi The paired lion-dogs that guard the entrances of temples. Shōjō Red-haired sea sprites who love alcohol, believed by some to actually be orangutans. Shōkera A creature which peeks in through the skylights of old houses. Shuten-dōji The name of a particularly powerful oni lord killed by ...
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Shisa face Source I (— Finemann ) created this work entirely by myself. Date 06:11, 22 December 2010 (UTC) Author — Finemann Permission (Reusing ...