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Orans, a loanword from Medieval Latin orans (Latin: [ˈoː.raːns]) translated as "one who is praying or pleading", also orant or orante, as well as lifting up holy hands, is a posture or bodily attitude of prayer, usually standing, with the elbows close to the sides of the body and with the hands outstretched sideways, palms up.
Praying hands against quasi-stained-glass background. Date: 2006 (SVG) Source: Adapted vectorized version of tiny raster image Image:Praising-hands.png: Author: Original tiny raster by Bastique, vectorization work by Booyabazooka: Permission (Reusing this file)
Praying Hands (German: Betende Hände), also known as Study of the Hands of an Apostle (Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels), is a pen-and-ink drawing by the German printmaker, painter and theorist Albrecht Dürer. The work is today stored at the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria.
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emoji code point name and notes ☸: u+2638: wheel of dharma ♰ u+2670: west syriac cross ♱ u+2671: east syriac cross ⛤ u+26e4: pentagram ⛥ u+26e5: right-handed interlaced pentagram ⛦ u+26e6: left-handed interlaced pentagram ⛧ u+26e7: inverted pentagram: ⛩: ⛩️: u+26e9: shinto shrine: ⛪︎: ⛪: u+26ea: church
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:37, 21 March 2015: 900 × 300 (205 KB): Newwikiprofile001: Reverted to version as of 05:58, 18 August 2009 - the apostrophe/quote key is a dead key (symbolized on the SVG in red) and the acute/grave are accessed by pressing AltGr then the key (symbolized with blue)
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