omphalos in a sentence
Examples
- All three stones were modelled on the Navel Stone or Omphalos of Delphi at the Delphi Oracle in Greece and closely resemble it.
- On the underside is the " omphalos " ( Greek for " navel " ), a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections.
- It was revered throughout the Ancient Greek world as the site of the Omphalos stone ( the centre of the earth and universe ).
- In the underside of the sculpture is the omphalos, an indentation whose mirrored surface provides multiple reflections of any subject situated beneath it.
- They abducted Amadeus Cho ( who they believed to be Hercules's eromenos ) in order to convince him to help locate the Omphalos.
- In fact Darwin is never criticised in " Omphalos ", which is subtitled " an attempt to untie the geological knot ".
- His charm and empire-building acumen have made his W . E . B . Du Bois Institute the omphalos of black studies in America.
- They considered it the center of the world, marking the site with a large conical stone, the omphalos ( meaning navel or center ).
- One feature of this church was the " " compas ", an omphalos once thought to be the center of the world ".
- The Greeks thought that the conical stone " Omphalos " ( " navel " ) located at Delphi was the center of the earth.