Show life story of kiss hiss the kiss developed out of the primitive habit of rubbing noses with a man who was your equal in the social scale if you met a superior then you rubbed his face with your nose in time it became the custom for two persons who were greeting each other to touch lips instead of noses and years later the kiss lost fis its ceremonial importance and became an affectionate gesture between two friends or lovers but many races still retain nose tibbina abbing as a salutation the ma oris of new zealand press their noses together when they meet and in IB melanesia it is the custom to put your nose close to the other persons and to sniff |