Crossword clues for omphalos
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Omphalos \Om"pha*los\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Anat.) The navel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also omphalus, "sacred stone," 1850, from Greek omphalos, literally "navel," later also "hub" (as the central point), from PIE *ombh-alo-, from root *nobh-/*ombh- "navel" (see navel). The name of the rounded stone in the shrine at Delphi, regarded by the ancients as the center of the world. Related: Omphalic.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world. 2 The theological proposition that the world was created with certain indicia of a history which had not actually occurred (such as the humans who had never been connected to umbilical cords being created with navels).
WordNet
n. scar where the umbilical cord was attached [syn: navel, umbilicus, bellybutton, omphalus]
Wikipedia
An omphalos (ὀμφαλός) is a religious stone artifact, or baetylus. In Greek, the word omphalos means " navel". In Greek lore, Zeus sent two eagles across the world to meet at its center, the "navel" of the world. Omphalos stones marking the centre were erected in several places about the Mediterranean Sea; the most famous of those was at Delphi. Omphalos is also the name of the stone given to Cronus. In the ancient world of the Mediterranean, it was a powerful religious symbol. Omphalos Syndrome refers to the misguided belief that a place of geopolitical power and currency is the most important place in the world.
An omphalos is a type of ancient religious stone artifact.
Omphalos may also refer to:
- Omphalos Stone, a stone in Greek mythology
- Omphalos (book), by Philip Gosse
- Omphalos hypothesis, which proposes that God made the world appear old when he created it
- Omphalos (sculpture), a sculpture in southern Sweden, named after the Omphalos in Delphi
- Omphalos (film)
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 would appear to be older than it is. The reasoning parallels the reasoning that Gosse chose to explain why Adam (who would have had no mother) had a navel: Though Adam would have had no need of a navel, God gave him one anyway to give him the appearance of having a human ancestry. Thus, the name of the book, Omphalos, which means 'navel' in Greek.
Darwin is mentioned several times within the book, but always with considerable respect. Gosse had attended meetings at the Royal Society where evolutionary theory was tested by Darwin before the publication of Origin—and had even made similar observations himself about variation of species in his own studies into marine biology—and considered Darwin's reasoning scientifically sound.
Omphalos is a 2014 American science fiction film produced by Red Giant Media It is written and directed by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel.
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 .