• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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