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What is an omphalos?

What is an omphalos? Here are some definitions.

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  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).
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To the ancient Greeks, the general notion of omphalos was fundamental.
It is the omphalos, this city that straddles two steamboat rivers at the continental crossroads.
Large globular urn, which has a short, strangled neck, everted rim and concave bottom in omphalos.
In New York City, Columbus Circle is the omphalos, yet no building here comes close to exalting that special point in Manhattan space.
From which omphalos or hub of the universe he will direct his shining team even to the far Hesperides of Richmond or of Windsor.
There were a number of omphaloi in Greece, but Delphi was the omphalos par excellence.

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