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. |