It's an ancient act of pagan adoration that anyone can perform anywhere, any time.
Kissing the hand.
In 158 CE the Roman novelist Lucius Apuleius, author of The Golden Ass, involved in a lawsuit against a guy named Aemilianus, is trying to make out his opponent as a model of impiety:
If he is passing by some shrine, he thinks it wicked to raise his hand to his lips in adoration.
(Apuleius, Apologia 56)
The Roman historian Pliny also mentions the prevalence of this custom in Roman practice (28:5).
The Hebrew Bible describes (and, of course, condemns) the act of kissing one's hand to the luminaries: