Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Shisa with mouth open is in essence saying "aw" - the beginning of the Japanese phonetic language. 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.
The units of the various perpetrators responsible for this torture were under the command of Juan Ponce Enrile in the case of the Philippine Army, and of Fabian Ver and Fidel Ramos in the case of the Philippine Constabulary (then still a part of the Military, rather than the civilian unit it is today). However, the reports of Amnesty ...
A painting of a Bengali Muslim woman in muslin, relaxing while smoking hookah, by Francesco Renaldi A Rajasthani man smoking through a hookah, Rajasthan, India.. A hookah (Bengali: হুক্কা, Hindi: हुक़्क़ा, Urdu: حُقّہ), IPA: ; also see other names), [1] [2] [3] shisha, [3] or waterpipe [3] is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporizing and ...
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]
It's Showtime is a Philippine television variety show broadcast originally broadcast by ABS-CBN and later Kapamilya Channel.Originally hosted by Vhong Navarro, Anne Curtis, Kim Atienza, Jugs Jugueta, Teddy Corpuz, and Vice Ganda, it premiered on October 24, 2009 on ABS-CBN's Unli PrimeTanghali line up replacing Pilipinas, Game Ka Na Ba?.
Art Academy (2023–present; Net 25); Art Angel (2004–2011; GMA) [1]; Art Is Kool (2002 [2] –2004; GMA, 2004–2005; ABC) [3]; Art Jam (2004–2005; ABS-CBN ...
January 1 Aniplus Asia and K-Plus have ceased its broadcast in the Philippines by Cignal and SatLite due to the termination of agreement between Omnicontent Management, Inc. (the exclusive Philippine pay TV distributor) and Plus Media Networks, Pte. Ltd. as they failed to agree on the terms and conditions for the renewal of its channel carriage.