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Blow You a Kiss on the Wind

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:

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Posted by on in SageWoman Blogs

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“Let the beauty we love 
Be what we do
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the Earth.”

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  • Deb
    Deb says #
    Wonderful post Molly, you captured the essence of water rising from the ground, the spirit of the cave and nature unfolding before

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