omphalos in a sentence
Examples
- Moreover, it was considered as the " navel " ( or centre ) of the world by the Greeks as represented by the Omphalos.
- However, understanding of the use of the omphalos is uncertain due to destruction of the site by Theodosius I and Arcadius in the 4th century CE.
- Following this storyline the pair battle Amazons, led by Princess Artume, who need him to decipher an Atlantean tablet that will lead to the Omphalos.
- It has recently been supported with good evidence that the omphalos, on display also in the museum, belonged to this complex, crowning the tripod.
- By that time, another artist, Ernst Billgren, had bought " Omphalos " from Vilks, and had requested that it not be damaged.
- The concave underside allows visitors to walk underneath to see the omphalos, and through its arch to the other side so that they view the entire structure.
- Afterwards, Vilks applied to the county council again, this time for permission to erect a memorial in the place that " Omphalos " had stood.
- Holland ( 1933 ) argues that these channels and the hollow nature of the " omphalos " found by the French would channel the vapors of intoxicant gases.
- :: See also Omphalos ( book ) which introduced the philosophical argument that in the Garden of Eden there would have been inevitable biological references to spurious prior existence.
- A headless seated figure and an object with a shape resembling an omphalos are hewn from the rock in this room, but they are too damaged to be identified.