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omphalos
[ om-fuh-luhs ]
noun
- the navel; umbilicus.
- the central point.
- Greek Antiquity. a stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, thought to mark the center of the earth.
omphalos
/ 藞蓲尘蹿蓹藢濒蓲蝉 /
noun
- (in the ancient world) a sacred conical object, esp a stone. The most famous omphalos at Delphi was assumed to mark the centre of the earth
- the central point
- literary.another word for navel
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of omphalos1
Greek: navel
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But for classical music, it鈥檚 the very omphalos, everything鈥檚 sort of seated, and it鈥檚 the hub.
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All day long she sat over a hole in the ground, the omphalos, the navel of the earth, breathing petrochemical fumes escaping from underneath.
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On the right, the god is seated on the omphalos, holding up his right hand.
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Yes; but if not of the earth, for earth's tenant Jerusalem was the omphalos of mortality.
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This last summer he made a tour through the centre of the island, and obtained boreal shells at Buchlyvie in Stirlingshire,鈥攖he omphalos of Scotland.
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