Associations to the word «Omphalos»
Noun
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Wiktionary
OMPHALOS, noun. An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.
OMPHALOS, noun. 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).
Dictionary definition
OMPHALOS, noun. A scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton".
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.