Examples of homage in the following topics:
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- Some of the most central
deities that the Aztecs paid homage to included:
- Losers of the game were often ritually sacrificed
as an homage to the gods.
- Every level of Aztec society
was affected by the belief in the human responsibility to pay homage
to the gods and anyone could serve as a sacrificial offering.
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- This was done at a formal and symbolic ceremony called a commendation ceremony, which was composed of the two-part act of homage and oath of fealty.
- During homage, the lord and vassal entered into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, while the lord agreed to protect the vassal from external forces.
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- Christian IV receives homage from the countries of Europe as mediator in the Thirty Years' War.
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- Up to the 7th century, this journey was undertaken by the pagan Arabs to pay homage to their shrine and drink from the Zamzam Well.
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- Although the Umayyad Caliphate did not rule all of the Sahara, nomadic Berber tribes paid homage to the caliph.
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- Prussia lay outside the Holy Roman Empire and the electors of Brandenburg held it as a fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, to which the electors paid homage.
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- He stripped the boyars of their
localized and state power and essentially created a sovereign state
that paid homage to Moscow.
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- However, Nepos reorganized his court in Salona, Dalmatia, and received homage and affirmation from the remaining fragments of the Western Empire beyond Italy and, most importantly, from Constantinople, which refused to accept Augustulus and branded him and his father traitors and usurpers.