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Webster 1913 Edition
Omphalos
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Om′pha-los
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK].]
(Anat.)
The navel.
Definition 2024
omphalos
omphalos
English
Noun
omphalos (plural omphaloi)
- An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.
- 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).
References
- ↑ “omphalos”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.