SIX WISE MONKEYS

The "three wise monkeys", sometimes called the three mystic apes, are a pictorial maxim. Together they embody the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".

The source that popularized this pictorial maxim is a 17th-century carving over a door of the famous Tōshō-gū shrine in Nikkō, Japan.

The three monkeys areMizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil.

MY COMMENTS

The three evils depicted in the MAXIM makes an incomplete list. In my view, there are at least 3 more evils humans indulge in, making the total six(6).  The pictorial representation of the SIX EVILS appears below.