The emperor, for example, might openly offer personal veneration to his favourite god, a god outside the traditional Roman circle, while also practicing a more conventional piety.
You may recall that Robert Altman's great 1975 film, "Nashville," the object of the revue's slightly campy veneration, offered a jaundiced vision of Music City as a symbol of all that was both right and wrong with the United States on the eve of the Bicentennial.
For instance, people generally view the totem as a companion, relative, protector, progenitor, or helper, ascribe to it superhuman powers and abilities, and offer it some combination of respect, veneration, awe, and fear.
Dance films will be screened on video monitors, and veneration rituals will be offered by a rotating team of three monks.
He espouses a tidy, Adult Ed vision of Western civilization, in the mold of the Durants, with an emphasis on brand names and a time-honored veneration of the Italians, yet he offers few original observations.
Sacrifices may be offered to beings who can be the object of religious veneration or worship.
He asks what a turtle would choose if offered the option of being nailed in a place of veneration an honor in some place of worship or staying at the lake and "dragging his tail in the mud".
To answer that, you have to go back to the beginning of Catholic relic veneration.
In Berlin the following spring, I spent an afternoon with the bullish, outspoken head of the Schaubühne theatre, Thomas Ostermeier, debating the German veneration for Hamlet (a tradition to which his own ripped-up, reimagined version offered a gleeful two fingers).
Ancestor veneration in China is back.
No successor will command such veneration.
