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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.
A pair of komainu, the "a" on the right, the "um" on the left. Komainu (狛犬), often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.
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Josef Budko's woodcut depiction of the shiksa in Hayim Nahman Bialik's Behind the Fence. Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl.
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After a forced expiration, an attempt at inspiration is made with closed mouth and nose, whereby the negative pressure in the chest and lungs is made very subatmospheric; the reverse of a Valsalva maneuver. This technique is designed to look for collapsed sections of airways such as the trachea and upper airways. In this maneuver, the patient ...
Chanson à bouche fermée was included in a concert program of the Maîtrise de Radio France and Maîtrise de Radio France - Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris at Notre-Dame de Paris on 17 November 2017, in a program of French choral music around 1900, including Poulenc's Litanies à la Vierge noire and Duruflé's Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens.