An omphalos is a religious stone artefact. In Ancient Greek, the word ὀμφᾰλός (omphalós) means "navel". Among the Ancient Greeks, it was a widespread belief...
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from the hands of the three priestess figures of Athenian origin. Omphalos (Omphalos is also the name of the stone given by Zeus's mother Rhea to Cronus...
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The Omphalos hypothesis is one attempt to reconcile the scientific evidence that the Earth is billions of years old with a literal interpretation of the...
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"Omphalos" is a science fantasy short story by American author Ted Chiang. It is named after the Omphalos hypothesis and a 1857 book by English naturalist...
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"navel". Omphalos may also refer to: Omphalos Stone, a stone in Greek mythology Omphalos (book), by Philip Gosse Omphalos (story), by Ted Chiang Omphalos hypothesis...
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Omphalos? Only this really (and perhaps paradoxically): that we can devise no way to find out whether it is wrong—or for that matter, right. Omphalos...
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Acropolis in the year 1862, and dubbed "Apollo Omphalos" because it was thought to have originally stood on an omphalos-shaped base. It was found in multiple fragments...
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Ladonia (micronation) (redirect from Omphalos (sculpture))
sovereign country named Ladonia. In 1999, another sculpture, Omphalos (named after Omphalos, a small sculpture in the temple at Delphi, "marking the centre...
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Young Earth creationism (section Omphalos hypothesis)
Omphalos was an unsuccessful mid-19th century attempt to reconcile creationism with geology. Gosse proposed that just as Adam had a navel (omphalos is...
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is the omphalos, an indentation whose mirrored surface provides multiple reflections of any subject situated beneath it. The apex of the omphalos is 27...
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American Conservatory Theater, Cal Shakes, the Berkeley Mime Troupe, and Omphalos Street Theatre Company. Upon his graduation at the Guildhall School of...
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the omphalos of Delphi. One of the most intriguing features of Hagia Sophia is a marble section of the floor known as the Omphalos. The Omphalos is located...
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forms of A.I. Seven tales were initially published between 2005 and 2015; "Omphalos" and "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" are originals. "The Merchant...
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of the world to be in Delphi, marked by the stone monument known as the Omphalos of Delphi (navel). According to the Suda, Delphi took its name from the...
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Philip Henry Gosse (section Omphalos)
Species, Gosse published Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot and thereby created what has been called the Omphalos hypothesis. In what Stephen...
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considered the site to be the center of the Earth, represented by a stone, the omphalos or navel, which Python guarded. Python became the chthonic enemy of the...
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Creationism (section Omphalos hypothesis)
Most contemporary creationist organizations reject such perspectives. The Omphalos hypothesis is one attempt to reconcile the scientific evidence that the...
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world, Delphi was considered the center of the universe, marked by the omphalos, or "navel", of the Earth that was located in Apollo's sacred temple. The...
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from Hermes to Apollo's son, Asclepius. S. Davis (citing W. H. Roscher, Omphalos (1913)) (1953). "Argeiphontes in Homer – The Dragon-Slayer". Greece & Rome...
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the 1950s. Axis mundi closely relates to the mythological concept of the omphalos (navel) of the world or cosmos. Items adduced as examples of the axis mundi...
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Directed panspermia Hindu creationism Jain cosmology#Time cycle Kalpa (time) Omphalos hypothesis Pre-Adamite Timeline of epochs in cosmology Yuga Cycle The Creation/Evolution...
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Nanny" "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" "The Great Silence" "Omphalos" "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" "It's 2059, and the Rich Kids are...
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venerated and thought to house a god or deity. The most famous example is the Omphalos stored in the Temple of Apollo at the Greek town of Delphi. The term baetyl...
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shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl. It often has a bulbous indentation (omphalos, "belly button") in the center underside to facilitate holding it, in which...
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7 Splinters in Time (redirect from Omphalos (2014))
called "Omphalos," where they hope to put a stop to the disastrous experiment that may be at the root of their troubles. But the road to "Omphalos" isn't...
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Nanny" "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" "The Great Silence" "Omphalos" "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" "It's 2059, and the Rich Kids are...
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handed Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, also known as the Omphalos Stone, which he promptly swallowed, thinking that it was his son. According...
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retracted navels in obese people. The name was derived from the Greek words omphalos (Greek: ομφαλός), meaning navel, and lithos (Greek: λίθος), meaning stone...
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(1En6:6). The ancient Greeks regarded several sites as places of earth's omphalos (navel) stone, notably the oracle at Delphi, while still maintaining a...
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Chryselephantine statue Xoanon Greek terracotta figurines Kernos Kykeon Loutrophoros Omphalos Panathenaic amphora Rhyton Sacrificial tripod Sceptre Thymiaterion Magic...
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