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omphalos::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalus, umbilicus |
| Type of | point |
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On October 3, the omphalos was closed off as workers polished the final section.
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Coin with portrait of Antiochus IV. Reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos.
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In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem there is also an omphalos.
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When one holds the omphalos they can see into the near and distant future.
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Silver coin of Antiochus I. The reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos.
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On the underside is the omphalos, a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections.
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Omphalos stones were said to allow direct communication with the gods.
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Omphalos was an unsuccessful mid-19th century attempt to reconcile creationism with geology.
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Viewers are able to walk beneath the sculpture and look up into an omphalos or navel above them.
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- Navel: a scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton"
- An omphalos is an ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus. In Greek, the word omphalos means "navel" (compare the name of Queen Omphale). According to the ancient Greeks, Zeus sent out two eagles to fly across the world to meet at its center, the "navel" of the world. ...
- Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot is a book by Philip Gosse, written in 1857 (two years before Darwin's On the Origin of Species), in which he argues that the fossil record is not evidence of evolution, but rather that it is an act of creation inevitably made so that the world ...
- Ladonia (Ladonien) is a micronation, proclaimed in 1996 as the result of a years-long court battle between artist Lars Vilks and local authorities over two sculptures. The claimed territory is part of a natural reserve in an enclave of southern Sweden. ...
- The Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be "functional", God must have created the Earth with mountains and canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and ...
- The navel; also, a central part or focal point
- A marble boss in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, which was regarded as the centre of the earth. (See delphic oracle.)
