Adoration (Latin) is to give homage or worship. For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... For a description of the medieval homage ceremony see commendation ceremony Homage is generally used in modern English to mean any public show of respect to someone to whom you feel indebted. ... Taken during a Hindu prayer ceremony on the eve of Diwali. ...

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Ancient Rome

Ad, to, and ora, mouth; (i.e. "carrying to one's mouth "), primarily an act of homage or worship, which, among the Romans, was performed by raising the hand to the mouth, kissing it and then waving it in the direction of the adored object. The devotee had his head covered, and after the act turned himself round from left to right. Sometimes he kissed the feet or knees of the images of the gods themselves, and Saturn and Hercules were adored with the head bare. Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... For other uses, see Kiss (disambiguation). ... Saturnus, Caravaggio, 16th c. ... For other uses, see Hercules (disambiguation). ...

By a gradual transition the homage, at first paid to divine beings alone, came to be paid to monarchs. Thus the Greek and Roman emperors were adored by bowing or kneeling, laying hold of the imperial robe, and presently withdrawing the hand and pressing it to the lips, or by putting the royal robe itself to the lips.

Ancient Middle East

In Eastern countries adoration has been performed in an attitude still more lowly. The Persian method, introduced by Cyrus, was to bend the knee and fall on the face at the prince's feet, striking the earth with the forehead and kissing the ground. This striking of the earth with the forehead, usually a fixed number of times, is the form of adoration usually paid to Eastern potentates even today. Persia redirects here. ... The name Cyrus (or Kourosh in Persian) may refer to: [[Cyrus I of Anshan]], King of Persia around 650 BC [[Cyrus II of Persia | Cyrus the Great]], King of Persia 559 BC - 529 BC — See also Cyrus in the Judeo-Christian tradition Cyrus the Younger, brother to the Persian king...

The Jews kissed in homage. Thus in I Kings xix. 18, God is made to say, "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." And in Psalms ii. 12, "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way." (See also Hosea xiii. 2.)

Western Europe

In Western Europe the ceremony of kissing the sovereign's hand, and some other acts which are performed kneeling, may be described as forms of adoration. The term to Kiss Hands is used in the United Kingdom to refer to the formal installation of British governmental office-holders to their office. ...

Catholic Church

See also Eucharist (Catholic Church) and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In Roman Catholic and Anglo-Catholic churches, Benediction usually refers to the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. ...

Adoration is applied in the Catholic Church to God alone. Adoration in the Catholic Church is also applied to the act of worship before the Eucharist. The name Catholic Church can mean a visible organization that refers to itself as Catholic, or the invisible Christian Church, viz. ... Taken during a Hindu prayer ceremony on the eve of Diwali. ... For other uses, see Eucharist (disambiguation). ...

All other forms of showing respect would be more properly be called acts of veneration, such as the kissing of images of Jesus and the saints, and the cross on Good Friday. Among Catholics a distinction is made between latria, the worship (adoration) due to God alone, Dulia, the veneration given to the saints and Hyperdulia, the veneration given to the Virgin Mary. Veneration is a religious symbolic act giving honor to someone by honoring an image of that person, particularly applied to saints. ... Good Friday is the Friday before Easter (Easter always falls on a Sunday). ... Latria is a Greek term used in Catholic theology to mean adoration, which is the highest form of worship or reverence and is directed only to God. ... Saint Mary and Saint Mary the Virgin both redirect here. ...

Other gestures associated with adoration of the eucharist include: bowing, making the sign of the cross, and genuflection. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For other uses, see Sign of the cross (disambiguation). ... Look up Genuflection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

See also

• Greeting habits
• Hand-kissing
• Kowtow

Greeting habits are social customs or rituals to show attention or to confirm friendship or social status between individuals or groups of people meeting each other. ... Hand-kissing is a ritual of greeting and respect. ... Kowtowing Kowtow, from the Chinese term kòu tóu (Cantonese: kau tàuh) (叩頭), is the act of deep respect shown by kneeling and bowing so low as to touch the head to the ground. ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.