Navel

Usage examples of omphalos.

Nearby was the Omphalos, a black, cone-shaped stone, which was regarded as the navel of the world, and was always near Pythia when she spoke.

Sometimes, even Delphi itself was called the Omphalos, the navel of the world.

There should be plenty of time to get the Omphalos, or whatever it was, out of the hole.

He blinked away the dust, and grinned as he lifted the Omphalos from the rubble.

Then as suddenly as the king had appeared, he was gone, and Indy saw the Omphalos in a museum.

As they left, Indy knelt down beside Dorian and slipped the Omphalos inside the knapsack.

If you were just faking it in the vapors, why did you fake this last fit when you took the Omphalos from me?

Belecamus, for all her faults, is an authority on Delphi, and she told me that the Omphalos is really nothing more than a curiosity, a meteorite actually.

Trails of Hoffman would be ferrying equipment to their domes on Mars with the Omphalos as of last month -- right?

At the 3-D Lunar map he took hold of the locating trailing-arm, linked the pivot in position, then swept out a route until the terminus of the arm touched the recessed locus where his technicians worked busily at the Omphalos -- worked, while waiting for parts which would never come.

And -- glaringly, as Ferry had said, the only item of any authentic value was the Omphalos herself, the great liner plus the repair and maintenance facilities on Luna which now, hive-like, surrounded and checked her as she waited futilely .

UN courts demanding that the Omphalos be placed under a state of attachment.

You and I will go on to Luna, to the Omphalos, as if nothing happened.

Rather shorter than it would require for the Omphalos to reach the Fomalhaut system.

He could safely pass from his meager rented flapple into the Omphalos, as it hung in powerless orbit around Mars at .