Associations to the word «Omphalos»
Noun
Adverb
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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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.