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	Omphalos Burning Man 2003 stereo wiggle images
		A professional welder, Robin was Annie's primary collaborator in building the Omphalos.
		Omphalos Acolytes selected Petitioners from the audience and guided them in their encounters with the Oracle.
		During the ritual singers Kara and Jennie amplified the words of Petitioner and Oracle for the benefit of the audience.
	www.burningmanopera.org /2003/2003_stereo.html (289 words)

	MODERNA MUSEET - Omphalos - a contribution to the moral championships. Text by Martin Schibli
		Omphalos was created in 1999, a stone and concrete sculpture weighing a ton and measuring 1.61 metres in height.
		The artist Ernst Billgren, who had bought Omphalos from Vilks, had told the enforcement service that "Omphalos must not be damaged." Despite this request that the work be handled with care, the DYKMA company's craneboat was sent to the site at dawn on 9 December.
		Ladonia's official standpoint with regard to Omphalos is that they are dismayed and alarmed by the removal of the centre of the world, and that this is an act of war by the Swedes.
	www.modernamuseet.se /v4/templates/template3.asp?bhjs=0&lang=Eng&id=2292 (774 words)

	The Tholos Temple (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This omphalos stone (meaning 'center of the earth' to the ancient Greeks) later became the center of the inner sanctum of the shrine of the Delphic oracle.
		Regarding the omphalos, one legend tells that the original stone, now lost, was a large meteorite fallen from the sky in deepest antiquity, while another legend says it was the first physical object to emerge on dry land after the waters of the Deluge had settled.
		The omphalos stone, and the earlier marker stone it replaced, were used to gather, concentrate and emanate the energies of the power place for the benefit of the local people.
	sacredsites.com /europe/greece/tholos_temple_delphi.html (2132 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Omphalos
		Omphalos stones used to denote this point were erected in several areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, the most famous of those was at the oracle in Delphi.
		Erwin Rohde wrote that the Python at Delphi was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo, and buried under the Omphalos, and that it is a case of one god setting up his temple on the grave of another.
		Omphalos stones were said to allow direct communication with the gods.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Omphalos (333 words)

	The Rejection of Omphalos
		Omphalos (which is Greek for navel) is the title of an ill-fated book published in Great Britain in 1857--in the period just preceding the publication of Darwin'sOn the Origin of Species in 1859.
		Perhaps the rejection of Omphalos is a measure of how much--even before the publication of Darwin's earthshaking book --the theological system of assumptions had already waned.
		In an article on Omphalos the author places the blame for Gosse's silly theory on a fundamental illogic inherent in Gosse's (and by implication, anyone's) attempt to be both scientist and creationist at the same time.
	www.roizen.com /ron/omph.htm (0 words)

	Omphalos
		Omphalos (literally, "navel") is a sacred oval or hemispherical stone in Delphi.
		There it was situated in the center of the temple of Apollo (currently a museum).
		According to legend, Zeus determined the spot by sending forth two eagles simultaneously to fly from the eastern and western ends of the earth, and they met at Delphi.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/o/omphalos.html (85 words)

	OMPHALOS: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot by Phillip
		OMPHALOS: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot by Phillip
		OMPHALOS: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot by Phillip Henry Gosse.
		OMPHALOS appeared in print that fall; within two years it had disappeared into history's rubbish heap.
	www.burgy.50megs.com /omphalos.htm (802 words)

	omphalos - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		omphalos, in Greek and Roman religion, navel-shaped stone used in the rites of many cults.
		The most famous omphalos was at Delphi; it was supposed to mark the center of the earth.
		Jerusalem as the 'omphalos' of the world: on the history of geographical concept.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-omphalos.html (385 words)

	omphalos \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An omphalos is a religious stone artifact in the ancient world.
		Het begrip omphalos (Grieks voor navel) kan verwijzen naar:navel in anatomische zin.
		Omphalos (strofe), onderdeel van het epinikion, een heldendicht.
	www.babylon.com /definition/omphalos/All (378 words)

	And Saturns Hexagon Shall Be Called . . . - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog
		In the end, the judges settled on William S. Anderson’s nomination of Omphalos, the stone that Saturn’s wife wrapped in swaddling clothes and gave to him.
		Omphalos is a suitable name because it also means “navel.”; The peoples of the ancient Meditteranean made a habit of marking various spots as the centers of the world using stones.
		Two famous locations include the Omphalos at Delphi, which is also related to the story of Zeus, and the Omphalos at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which marked the center of the late-Roman and early-Christian worlds.
	tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com /2007/04/05/and-saturns-hexagon-shall-be-called (2143 words)

	Omphalos, Arcs & Archetypes, Tree Of Life - Crystalinks
		The omphalos is a very common type of religious stone artifact.
		Many records indicate that the omphalos stone was the holiest object at various oracle centers in all the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the most well known being at Delphi.
		It's safe to conclude that the tree is indeed a Tree of Life, because the earliest, most common form of it was the date palm...but date palms don't grow in Greece!
	www.crystalinks.com /omphalosarcs.html (0 words)

	Omphalos under fire
		Dating back to ancient Greece, the original word 'omphalos' meant 'navel' and was particularly applied to the Oracle at Delphi.
		There is no clear omphalos, although in recent years the subject has gained more interest.
		This was preceded by the suppression of the Windsor Free Festival in 1974.
	www.unpopular.demon.co.uk /lpa/elpan002/002omphalos.html (702 words)

	Omphalos Context-Free Language Learning Competition
		Omphalos is a context-free language learning competition that forms part of ICGI-2004.
		The task is to infer a model of a context-free language from unstructured examples (both positive and negative) and to use that model to label a set of test sentences as being either in or out of the language.
		The Omphalos administrators are the sole arbiters for this competition, and their judgment is final in all matters.
	www.irisa.fr /Omphalos (0 words)

	KOTEBEL Omphalos reviews and MP3
		Joropo (4.53) : A dynamic composition, from dreamy with flute and piano to a fluent rhythm with splendid interplay between flute and piano and a strong, flashy synthesizer solo.
		Omphalos (6.57) : The final song is the titletrack, it starts mellow but gradually turns into more dynamic and bombastic, the vocals sound outstanding between the lush sound of the keyboards, flute and guitar, a great end!
		Omphalos means navel, the center of the world.
	www.progarchives.com /album.asp?id=12486 (2164 words)

	Delphi Omphalos (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In addition, the Greeks believed that the omphalos stone marked the spot where Apollo first established his oracle by driving the serpent monster Python into the Earth (=Gaia).
		According to ancient accounts, there was originally a different omphalos stone at Delphi, prior to the one shown here (which was made as a replacement in the 4th cent.BC).
		The first stone was a meteorite, and was draped in an argenon, or woven net, thus creating an effect reminiscent of woven beehives (note that bees from the Bronze Age on were a symbol of death and resurrection) and/or snake baskets (note that Python was a giant serpent).
	www.utexas.edu /courses/introtogreece/lect16/img8omphalos.html (125 words)

	Omphalos - Crystalinks
		The omphalos is a very common type of religious stone artifact/ tablet.
		According to the ancient Greeks, Zeus sent out two eagles to fly across the world and they met at its center, the "navel" of the world - which the omphalos represents.
		It most likely originated from the "stone of splendor" associated with the Canaanite god Baal.
	www.crystalinks.com /omphalos.html (0 words)

	Omphalos definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Omphalos: The omphalos (or omphalus) is also called the umbilicus or navel.
		The decorative boss protruding from the center of a Greek warrior's shield was also called the omphalos, as was the knob at the center of a yoke.
		The omphalos was the "center of anything." The omphalos in the temple of Apollo at Delphi was a rounded conical stone; it was sacred and marked what the ancient Greeks believed to be the central point of the earth.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9561 (160 words)

	Omphalos - Finding the Centre
		The stone was henceforth known as omphalos, or navel of the world, the exact spot that was the centre of the earth.
		The omphalos, a sacred stone of a vaguely conical shape was believed to be a dwelling place of the god.
		The tradition was reinforced by votive gifts, in navel-form, which were sent to the Delphic oracle for many centuries: one of these was an impressive eagle-adorned omphalos of the fifth century B.C. A later omphalos can be seen in the museum at Delphi.
	www.dailywriting.net /omphalos.htm (800 words)

	ACAM~Sovereto e l'Omphalos
		In questa accezione ”ombelico” rappresenterebbe un centro sacro, luogo ove il “divino” si unisce con il “terrestre”.Il concetto di Omphalos lo troviamo sia nella Bibbia che in molte culture megalitiche, e’ l’idea di una proiezione in terra di un centro celeste, il “loco” ove dimorano gli dei.
		Gli omphalos, comunque, non sono legati solo alla pietra, spesso essi sono rappresentati da obelischi, menhir, pozzi o da uno stranissimo simbolo, quello della triplice cinta, disegno che ritroviamo in moltissimi punti sacri e rappresentato da tre quadrati concentrici e da dei segmenti che uniscono i punti mediani dei lati.
		Un particolare omphalos, e’ presente a Sovereto, piccola frazione del comune di Terlizzi, in provincia di Bari, ove si uniscono magie templari, ricordi di antichi culti di Madonne Brune e allineamenti megalitici.
	www.acam.it /sovereto.htm (982 words)

	Apollo Sitting on an Omphalos (Getty Museum)
		The Seleucids claimed Apollo as their patron god, and the figure of the seated god is commonly seen on the backs of Seleucid coins.
		Apollo sits on the omphalos, the symbolic navel of the world located in the god's sanctuary at Delphi in Greece.
		The god is lifting an arrow to inspect it for straightness; his bow leans against the omphalos.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=24280 (202 words)

	Word of the Day - yourDictionary.com
		Omphalopsychite is a person who contemplates his navel—seriously: 14th-century monks, the Hesychasts, believed that deep study of the navel induced communion with God because the middle of the body, not the heart or mind, was the seat of the soul (ompha- "navel" + psyche "soul").
		Any focal point can carry the term, though: "The omphalos of the meeting was Theo's announcement that the accounting firm was fired and the company's finances were in the hands of his brother-in-law, the used car salesman from Alice Springs."
		Etymology: From the Greek omphalos "navel." The Greeks believed that the Omphalos in the temple of Apollo at Delphi marked the exact centerpoint of the earth: its navel.
	www.yourdictionary.com /wotd/wotd.pl?word=omphalos (375 words)

	The Omphalos Argument (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Omphalos Argument was advanced in 1857 by an experimental zoologist, Philip Henry Gosse, who was obsessed with the need to protect his extreme fundamentalist view of special creation from the geological evidence against it.
		The argument derives its name (Omphalos means "navel" in Greek) from an old theological question (of the same general class as counting angels on the head of a pin): Since the navel is evidence of a past event (i.e.
		Many just laughed at it, but others were deeply offended by the idea of God being a lying and deceitful prankster who had written an enormous and superfluous lie in the rocks.
	members.aol.com /dwise1/cre_ev/omphalos.html (545 words)

	Mercer University Press: THE Omphalos and the Cross
		Two powerful symbols dominated the world of classical antiquity: the omphalos ("the navel," marking the supposed center of the universe) and the cross.
		In The Omphalos and the Cross, Paul Ciholas shows how the religious climate of antiquity forced Christians to grapple with Apollonian religion and its hold over citizens of the Roman Empire.
		In a post-Constantine cultural and religious settings, Christian theology was marked by a dialectical tension in which the spiritual could no longer be freed from the secular or the eternal from the temporal.
	www.mupress.org /webpages/books/ciholas.html (302 words)

	embedded age vs. the omphalos - Page 17 - Christian Forums (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Omphalos" means "navel" --- I claim Adam had no navel --- no navel = no omphalos.
		if you are treating the omphalos as a sign of history, then eliminate all historical elements from Adam.
		so by analogy, Adam had an omphalos, if he was created an adult, rather than simply being born like every other placental mammal has been.
	www.christianforums.com /showthread.php?p=30890913 (1126 words)

	Amazon.com: omphalos (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot (Originally Published: London: J. Van Voorst, 1857) by Philip Henry Gosse (Paperback - Jan 1998)
		Omphalos: [poems] / Kathleen Estes by Kathleen Estes (Unknown Binding - 1979)
		Omphalos,: Eine Philologisch, ArchaÌologisch, Volkskundliche Abhandlung uÌber die Vorstellungen der Griechen und Anderer VoÌlker vom 'Nabel der Erde' by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Unknown Binding - 1913)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=omphalos&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (373 words)

	ArtCal - Jack Shainman Gallery - Ross Rudel, Omphalos
		Minimal in form yet complex in both technique and surface treatment, Rudel's objects are enigmas, as his technical precision manages to locate the work somewhere between natural and manmade without visually sacrificing one for the other.
		As in Rudel's previous series, the works comprising Omphalos are, at first glance, simple, nearly iconic forms hovering between formalist and biomorphic abstraction.
		The term "omphalos" - Greek for "navel" - also refers to a center (or center of the Universe), a theme at play in most of Rudel's work.
	www.artcal.net /event/view/1/3721 (467 words)

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