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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 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.
This list of newspapers currently being published in the Philippines includes broadsheets and tabloids published daily and distributed nationwide. Regional newspapers or those published in the regions are also included.
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]
People's Journal is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper [1] published by the Philippine Journalists Incorporated.Augusto "Gus" Villanueva, [2] [3] its former editor-in-chief, and Antonio Friginal [3] were founders of the company.
CNN Philippines Newsroom or simply Newsroom is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by CNN Philippines. Originally anchored by Jing Magsaysay, it premiered on March 16, 2015, as a standalone noontime newscast and was expanded into different editions since February 15, 2016.
Feeling close [18] — Refers to a person who acts too friendly to someone but is not a friend. Utang na loob [ 5 ] [ 57 ] — A Tagalog phrase which is a Filipino cultural trait that may roughly mean an internal debt of gratitude or a sense of obligation to reciprocate.
The newspaper's name was derived from the Filipino word that means "free".In 1981, Malaya was founded by Jose Burgos, Jr. [3] as a weekly, and later daily written in the Tagalog language.