Prayer hands

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The most common gesture of prayer in early Christendom was the Orans, which looks like this.

>>1564129
that looks like a guy at a pulpit, addressing a crowd.

>>1564129
Jazz hands has gone full circle then.

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>>1564107

Most likely spread from the Buddhist prayers/mudras that permeated the region.

>http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/mudra-japan.shtml

Look here for more.

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>>1564129
Muzzies do that too.

>>1564149
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%B1jali_Mudr%C4%81

>>1564156
People overemphasize stuff here. People do a lot of things with their hands during prayer. I doubt the Vatican tells you what to do with your hands except for the sign of the cross.

>>1564167
Roman Catholics aren't even that strict with how you make the sign, unlike the orthodox church.

>Being burned at the stake because of how you hold your fingers

That's hardcore, even for us.

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>>1564148
Zoroastrians generally pray the same way

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>>1564148
>>1564197
But there are exceptions. They seem to pray with their hands together when before a fire.

>>1564107
This gesture was actually only tied to prayer in the High Middle Ages, with the growing ideal of chivalric feudalism taking hold among the educated classes. It is the symbol of homage and supplication from a vassal to his liege, and what are humans but vassals to the ultimate Lord above?

>>1564136
That gesture entails the prayer as being a sacrifise