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The Komainu strongly resemble Chinese guardian lions and in fact originate from Tang dynasty China. [10] The Chinese guardian lions are believed to have been influenced by Asiatic lion pelts and lion depictions introduced through trade from either the Middle East or India , countries where the lion existed and was a symbol of strength. [ 11 ]
This is in distinct opposition to the traditional English lion which is a lifelike depiction of the animal. The claws, teeth and eyes of the Chinese lion represent power. Few if any muscles are visible in the Chinese lion whereas the English lion shows its power through its life-like characteristics rather than through stylized representation.
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 operating system was further renamed to "macOS" starting with macOS Sierra. macOS retained the major version number 10 throughout its development history until the release of macOS 11 Big Sur in 2020. Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.1 were given names of big cats as internal code names ("Cheetah" and "Puma").
macOS Sonoma (version 14) is the twentieth major release of macOS, Apple's operating system for Mac computers. The successor to macOS Ventura, it was announced at WWDC 2023 on June 5, 2023, [3] and released on September 26, 2023. It is named after the wine region located in California's Sonoma County. [4] [5]
macOS Mojave (/ m oʊ ˈ h ɑː v i, m ə-/ mo-HAH-vee; version 10.14) is the fifteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. Mojave was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 4, 2018, and was released to the public on September 24.
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The system was originally marketed as simply "version 10" of Mac OS, but it has a history that is largely independent of the classic Mac OS. It is a Unix -based operating system [ 11 ] [ 12 ] built on NeXTSTEP and other NeXT technology from the late 1980s until early 1997, when Apple purchased the company and its CEO Steve Jobs returned to ...