Taking her seat upon a covered tripod cauldron at the temple center, the Omphalos, she began her transcendence by shaking bay ...

Built around a sacred spring, Delphi was considered to be the omphalos - the center (literally navel) of the world. People came from all over Greece and beyond to have their questions about the ...

One of the early anti-evolutionists, P. H. Gosse, published a book entitled Omphalos ("the Navel"). The gist of this amazing book is that Adam, though he had no mother, was created with a navel ...

As archaeologists continue with their excavation of the Roman city doomed by Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in AD79, The Times ...

The god and the stone object were represented by the stone object which the Greeks called omphalos, "navel"; it is a hemisphere (the northern hemisphere) resting on a cylinder (the foundations of the ...

For garden lovers, touring great gardens is one of the loveliest ways to indulge all the senses in cultivated outdoor beauty.

Still, Jerusalem was considered the omphalos (the earth's navel), from which order was established and diffused to "those who dwell at the earth's farthest bounds." Badlands. (J) After his baptism ...

Another word gifted to the English language from Ancient Greek, it combines “omphalos,” meaning navel, with “skepsis,” which means to examine — more commonly expressed as the act of ...

The pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Delphi, where the oracle of Apollo spoke, was the site of the omphalos, the 'navel of the world'. Blending harmoniously with the superb landscape and charged with sacred ...

Do you constantly write gauge as ‘guage’? Or would you have difficulty explaining what an omphalos is? They are the sort of challenges which face the competitors in Scripps National Spelling ...

Ninety ready-to-run 2-year-olds are cataloged for the HBA Hokkaido Training Sale at Sapporo Racecourse May 21. This is much ...

Mulligan describes the Cat Stone as an ancient omphalos that marks the centre of the earth for cultures in the region, much like those that once stood at Delphi in ancient Greece and Cusco in Peru.