omphalos

How To Use omphalos In A Sentence

• Further legends state that the omphalos at Delphi stands upon the spot where Apollo killed the serpent Python, or upon the chasm through which the waters of Deucalion's flood drained away.
• He goes on to explain that ‘this god is the ancestral exegete for all mankind on such matters and expounds them to them, seated on the omphalos at the centre of the earth.
• In New York City, Columbus Circle is the omphalos, yet no building here comes close to exalting that special point in Manhattan space.
• These boring people who seem to spend their time telling us how to vote, omphaloskepsis, or calling the paparazzi over for crotch shots of their kids will be around for at least another six months. ORACULATIONS
• He omphalos is a very common type of religious stone artifact.
• Heaney's father, Patrick, born in 1910, was a cattle-dealer with a forty-acre farm in Derry, situated alongside a railway, the now-famous Mossbawn, sacred omphalos of his first-born son's poetry.
• This reminds me of the "omphalos" interpretation of the evidence for the age of the earth. Fundamentalism: Fundamentally Unbiblical
• When they finally get to New York, the omphalos, the imagined center of their world, Singh dupes them into signing an iniquitous contract that will make him a fortune, and Ormus and Vina slaves for the rest of their careers.
• The Greeks' "omphalos," the navel of the world, isn't confined to Delphi. ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States
• If pressed, could you spell syzygy or capybara, phylactery or omphaloskepsis or acouchi? Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph