The mouth is not only an organ that enables one to eat and speak, symbolically, it is also the place where the breath of life passes through.
In ancient Egypt, there was a ritual that consisted in opening the mouth of the mommies so that the dead would be able to receive the breath of eternal life.
In Ancient India, it was believed that the Gods were originated from the mouth of the primeval being Prajapati.
The mouth is also linked to another symbol of the milking breast of the Mother and may be used to evoke the feminine sex. For instance, Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179) considered the mouth as an impure element.
Now you take the floor : What do You associate with The Mouth ?
50 Responses to “Association of the Week : The Mouth”
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Mouth is used the best when kissing a person you deeply love. The beauty and sacredness of a kiss. One can not describe it accurate. Two souls meet and seek for each other. Once you taste it, forever you seek for it again. :)
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When i think of the mouth i think of the duality between pain and pleasure of innumerable things.
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Dear Thelma,
thank you for trying to share with everybody the beauty of “The Kiss”. Here is another link, found by Google:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CAR/JG82~The-Kiss-Posters.jpg
Love,
M. Elisa
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The mouth is the best and is the worst, it depends on howw you use it.
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For us humans the mouth is the physical organ that, with the help of the intellect and will, can regulate what comes in and what goes out. The way we breathe, talk, sing, eat.
But, what rules the mouth, is the persons spiritual state. What rules a persons spiritual state, is how he chooses what enters and is nurtured in the garden of his or her mind and heart.
The words of the mouth only copies what is already there.
May we all watch our gardens better.
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I associate the mouth with the voice of God. Listening to the words of a great speaker or hearing the sounds of a beautiful song I feel inspiration enter me.
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Mouth is for words. The words come from this very mouth and the words are spoken from this very mouth. The words flows from your mouth. As you said Paulo, We eat, we drink and we do kiss, we even lick or we taste something from the tongue in the mouth.
Mouth is the way of input. We take in any food through this organ present in our body. Now there are different ways to look at this. We can see it spiritually, we can even see this culturally, we can even see this in many other ways that will have good meaning.
Let us see first what it signifies, If there was some creator why did he put this organ in the human body? What was the reason of putting the mouth? Why did we only take all these food materials from only mouth? Why cannot we use other organ for input. Let us say, Nose or ears or … Why we were taught that we should take our foods from the mouth and not from the other organ.
Probably these questions are very childish. These questions would be asked by very small child. And the beauty of this question is the simplicity of these question. Tomorrow, it can become a research questions for the Researchers.
When we were a small child, we were taught like this, we were feed by our mother in the mouth. Later we grew up, we came to know that the food goes inside this organ. Then slowly, we started to adopt to this environment and Nature.
The first step is the last step. Everything that we do in first becomes the last. It does not signifies that it will last for ever but it may last for ever too. Let me take you outside this topic and give you one example,
When we first experience the sex, Before the experience you do not know how it is like? Will this hurt? Will I feel the pain? Will there be pleasure, will there be trouble ? We think on many issues of the sex. But once you experience it and slowly you like it later. Because it will take some time before you will say- “Yes” it is great.
After some period of the time you start to like the sex and later you will be addicted to it. Then the whole way of doing something becomes like an addiction. You cannot live it, you cannot say-well, I do not want to do it. It become like an addiction and it continues. (Why?) Simply because, you know every body around you do this, you have learned in your book, you have been taught in the school, you have been seen your parents do this- then you slowly start thinking (Why should not I do the same?)
Therefore, Let us now get back to topic of Mouth. The mouth is same organ which takes input and we know this organ has a capabilities of speak, to take input (Whatever) and to even throw output(by speaking)
When you speak what comes out of your mouth?
-Words
When these words come out of your mouth, how is the impact?
-Depends on whom you speak and what you speak
Ultimately, the words are the root cause of everything. The words can bring some one close and the words can kill some one for no reasons.
Words can create peace and love, words can even create war and violence.
Mouth has vital role to play in the way we use it.
–Author of the book “Nature God”.
– http://www.kalwar.com.np
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Sorry it seems that something went wrong above! I just wanted to ..show the kiss that Maria-elisa has mentioned.
Love,
Thelma
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http://www.allposters.com/View_HighZoomResPop.asp?apn=1514064&imgloc=14-1452-2POR000Z.jpg&imgwidth=670&imgheight=894&sc=False&ct=Hayez,%20Francesco%20Superstock&cw=20&ch=20
Dear Maria Elisa, you are right ‘the kiss’by Hayez is a beautiful painting. My parents used to have it [the print, of course!!] in thei art-gallery.
Love,
Thelma
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The mouth. You are what you eat. It is where we put our fuel to keep us alive. It is sensual because it is usually used as the first touch of desire, however the mouth is our biggest weapon. Words can hurt more than a blow to the head. It can woo and it can stab.
It is our main source for communication and survival.
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The translation of the song and some more facts and yet another movie..http://berlinese-ferrarese.blogspot.com/2007/10/zajdi-zajdi.html
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Didn´t read the blog until yesterday and today I found the blogtext from inspireyourmind, do you know that you have hell of a music in your blog- dancing with mephisto (the devil)?
My songbird is dead but what a voice from his mouth. His mouth gave so much love and ..if you want to you can listen..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKRaXPYSzKY
LOVE TINA
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I associate the mouth with kisses.
Mouth is related with love. With all kinds of love. And what touches you more than being kissed by the person you love??? That’s why “The kiss” by Hayez is one of my favourite paintings!
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The communication is ur strongest weapon. The tools are given from the God. So, if we put this subject inro philosophy field, i associate A mouth with A brain.
If we put this subject into most common ground, in our lives, I associate A mouth with another one, and try to convey at least own feelings. As well,we can trie, like in ancient Egypt Akhnaton asseyed with his son ( and was accused that he was a gey by some modern historians), to breathe the power and eternity. This one depends on our iner strenght, believes and intensity of our urges.
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Mouth, for me, is the door of a tunel were the soul comme in and out ,a bridge betwin in and outside.
Is a very sensual place and maybe a particular sign about the wavefreguecy of intimate life of everyone of us.
It is very important for me in the interaction with other people.
Love
Mirela(the woman in lift)
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The Mouth
Appetites, hunger, thirst.
Dry, wet, blesses curses.
In comes spirit, life, death, sickness, goodness.
Sweetness, sour, cold, warmth, hot, breath, kisses.
Out goes peace, love, faith, hope, life, death, destruction.
Vomit spit, wisdom, spirit and song, breath, kisses.
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The mouth is one vehicle for many forms of expression, sensation and absorption.
It is a miniature cathedral for the singer.
It is of profound importance.
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Hi Paulo! Hi everyone! Atmas, Namaste!
My associations are: deep connection, love, sex…because this is the surname of my beloved, yes, Boca!
Greetings from Brazil to all!
Beijos and kisses in your hearts and souls!
Marta
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The Foot.
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The mouth tastes the breath
of the word
in the eye of the soul
dancing on the tongue
of the fire
…
burns the creation
eternal in the flame
that speaks as the heart.
Love
Hildegarde
X
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la boca…es el organo mas expuesto de nustro cuerpo y paradojicamente el mas intimo…que hermoso!…el sonido de nuestra alma entra y sale por ahi…y tambien…uno es dueño de lo que calla y esclavo de lo que dice…
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Paul from Austria and Thelma,
See we’re resonating with each other now.. yes Paul; I do believe in those universal unspoken vibes of communication that transcends time and space .. Unfortunately, I cannot explain it on a scientific level for science has yet to decipher its codes !
Back to our ‘Mouth’ and its organic functions now ! hehe.. I’m really having sensual moments as I’m typing this with my chocolate and my Kona coffee.. it just tantalizes your taste buds !
Enjoy your evening all of you..
InspireYourMind (IYM)
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God sent the breath of life to Adam through His mouth. So the mouth it is also a door.
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smiles
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Singing - a beautiful voice ;-)
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a mouth can be a sword
a sword to wound
a sword to kill
a sword to defend
a mouth can say zillions of words
words of wisdoms
words of loves
words of hates
a mouth is a creation of GOD that can creates
creates loves
creates hatreds
creates peace
a mouth will always be a mouth
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i connect with mouth words that break forth from it. Words that can be kind,words that can induce laughter or make us cry.Sentences that inspire us centuries after they were heard for the first time.Speeches that become benchmarks.
With mouth i connect songs that connect the world.
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There are many things I associate with the mouth. To start, I associate the mouth with fruits, particularly strawberries and cherries. There is something very appealing about the mouth (or lips) that resemble the juicy nature of fruits. Maybe it’s from the way the mouth makes contact with fruit, and how your lips turn a deep crimson after eating a bowl of cherries (or a bucket if you’re me). I can see how it is thought to resemble the feminine sex (and thus, in historical times, impure), because according to studies, many men find the mouth the most erotic part of a woman (not breasts or butt??) as it apparently reminds them of “other” lips. And of course, it’s the door to satisfying our hunger, expressing our thoughts and feels and consequently influencing. But most importantly, to me, the mouth is the vehicle to not only vocally, but visually expressing happiness. There is nothing more brightening than a smile.
Much love,
Silvana
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love but also hate! you can use it to express all your love to somebody, but also you can heart that person with the mouth!; we only have to learn how to use it!
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Dearest Paul, next time I will travel to Vienna, except from ..Melk and .. Paul, we will have to visit… lower Belvedere as well!!
Last time I bought I silk, scarf with one of Klimt’s painting for my mother, from the airport. I did not find this one, my favorite!! Next time..
I found this in the Internet, with the photo of the painting:
‘The kiss is a fascinating icon of the loss of self that lovers experience. Only the faces and hands of this couple are visible; all the rest is great swirl of gold, studded with colored rectangles as if to express visually the emotional and physical explosion of erotic love’.
Love,
Thelma
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the mouth i associate with words. words with certainty. so that i believe that we have to be careful with what goes out of our mouths, for then, the thought, the idea, the abstract is made concrete and certain. Making it difficult to retract.
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i love the way u write and i can feel ur love(metta)to ur readers in the way u write and in the words of ur characters in ur novel ” the alchemist” .i love it.keep it up…:)…thanks for sharing ur knowledge and wisdom with us, ur readers.:)
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The mouth! Oh, my! I would love to suggest some highly philosophical association, but the truth is that nothing could be further from my thoughts. When you say the word “mouth,” the fist thing that come to my mind is “sex.” Probably more than any other anatomical feature of the human body - even moreso than the sexual organs themselves - the mouth makes me think of all things sensual, suggestive, steamy - sexual.
Perhaps, aside from the more obvious reasons, this is because the mouth can be used to say so much, without saying a single word aloud. Think of a kiss blown across a crowded room, when all other eyes are conveniently turned. Think of a lover biting their lower lip in anticipation. Or, better yet, biting your lip in play or exaltation! Think of the way an olive may be eaten in public so as to suggest….well, many things that might not be spoken. Of the way a woman puts on her lipstick in front of a man - on purpose. The many many ways we find to make love with the mouth without ever undressing.
Nothing is more potentially suggestive than the mouth. Though it doesn’t exactly qualify as an erogenous zone in the strictest sense, I can think of nothing more “sexy” than being touched on the mouth. But maybe that’s going a bit too far.
There is also food. I think food is sexy. Or at least it can be, under the right circumstances. All the elements are there: desire, expectation, surprise, the peace of satiation. And, of course, the mouth is what it’s all about - the tastebuds’ delight.
And then there are whispers, and words spoken for only the beloved to hear….
I don’t know why - I just can’t think of anything negative when I think of the mouth. I just think of sex. That’s all.
Sincerely,
Savita
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As James said a sword of two edges!!!
Ya lo dijo Santiago, una espada de dos filos!!!
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¡La apertura de la boca según los egipcios con la llave de la vida! Paulo me gustaría que nos hablaras más de esto.
Se que “la palabra” crea y en las pirámides esta escrito las palabras que hay que pronunciar.
Me encantaría tener más información.
Gracias por ilustrarnos y llenarnos de inquietud y deseo de aprender.
Un beso muy fuerte que sale de la boca.
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To kiss and to be kissed,
to share the whisdom or to let slipping out nonsences,
to breath out strongly when eliminating something we cannot cary within any more … having a mounth helps a lot.
A warm embrace from Dita
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… moved recently to lower Belvedere… dearest Thelma…;)
Probably the most famous kiss of all… certainly the most colorful…
Love, Paul
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Communication and sensuality.
O yes, it can provoke in many manners…
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/klimt/kiss/klimt.kiss.jpg
The kiss!
Love,
Thelma
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Breath, comunication, kiss, scream, voice, meal, pleasure, sensuality, deliverance…
Mouth is life!
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Bible, James,chapter 3:
“4 Behold also ships, whereas they are great and are driven by strong winds, yet are they turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the force of the governor willeth. 5 Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood. 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell. 7 For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of the rest is tamed and hath been tamed, by the nature of man. 8 But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison. 9 By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are made after the likeness of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11 Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water? 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet”
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Well,maybe I will far of being original,but in my mind mouth now reminds ony the word “kiss”.Or whisper of sweet love words,near to lovers ear,or the warm breath .Think nowadays I have an obsession,kissess and kissess…..Maybe my mood too romantic.
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The mouth! Smiles, kisses, tastes, bites..
As you mention, dear IYM and dear-est Paul from Austria, the tongue is a … dangerous ‘knife’.In the hands of the surgeon, but it .. kills, as well. There is a Greek proverb saying: The tongue does not have bones, but it ..breaks bones!
The mouth is the way we, people, first take experience from the environment.Our breath. A baby takes his mother’s breast. The first connection with ..mother earth! Then whatever we can grasp goes… directly to our .. mouth.
Kisses : I believe that only with ‘complete and wholehearted love’ with the erotic kiss, we ..surrender! It is the exchange of souls. The ..entrance of Paradise!
Smile makes a face beautiful.
LOVE,
Thelma
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It is indeed uncanny IYM, that although I was still asleep when you commented this post, we have chosen so many similar words…? Mine were written at 08:18 am and both comments were posted just a few moments ago… simultaneously…
Does this mean that the universe transmits it’s messages for all to hear… but it depends entirely upon the individual if he/she is on the right wavelength to receive…?
Let the universe inspire us with it’s messages… of Love, Paul
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Sensuality.
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“The sin does not enter the mouth but comes out of it!” ….or something similar said by Jesus Christ
Luce
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It is also the part of the human anatomy in which breads a verbal bacteria… a venom that can drive young people (as we saw in one of yesterdays posts) to acts of despair. The tongue which lies within this cavernous orifice, is capable if uncontrolled of great damage, but when it’s utterances are controlled by emotional intelligence and careful thought, one can hear wonderful laudations of love…
i.e. I love you… ;)
Love, to all, Paul
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With the way my week has started off at work I’m learning its best to keep my MOUTH SHUT!
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I associate with the mouth your given and only chance of expressing your social intelligence ! That unique organ residing inside, the one named ‘ the tongue ‘ is really your two-sided sword; you either win your battles with it smartly, or you screw it for yourself until you come back to your senses and your wisedom again..
What would happen to you should you; God forbid; develop tongue cancer ? What if your tongue is taken out for that ? How would you use it smartly then before you loose it ?
InspireYourMind ( IYM )
http://soul-and-fire.blogspot.com/
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Lo primero que en he pensado, visualizando una boca en mi mente es la de una trampa de un Cazador, seguramente, porque a veces es la parte que más nos traiciona de nuestro cuerpo.
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