omphalos

The display says they are on the third level within Omphalos, still above ground.

Omphalos has not shut down the air to this level.

When one holds the omphalos they can see into the near and distant future.

On October 3, the omphalos was closed off as workers polished the final section.

An omphalos is a type of ancient religious stone artifact.

The literary term "omphalos" has been used periodically throughout history.

Omphalos stones were said to allow direct communication with the gods.

These have the form of a mētra with the omphalos in the midst.

Paris is the omphalos of Europe's night train services.

Are they aware that I am the omphalos, the center, of all this cataclysmic disruption?

The spot functions as the omphalos (navel), the world's point of beginning.

One such dilemma is whether they should be depicted with navels (the Omphalos theory).

Omphalos's occupants are just a different set of pharaohs.

Omphalos has not responded in any surprising way.

The pipes push toward the front of Omphalos.

The omphalos is a "warped dimension of fluid space".

It is an uncanny omphalos, a navel that is hard to turn away from.

Schnee is already destroying the heart of Omphalos.

Sacred places constitute world centers (omphalos) with the altar or place of prayer as the axis.

There are a number of omphalos allusions elsewhere in literature, especially fantasy:

Omphalos was an unsuccessful mid-19th century attempt to reconcile creationism with geology.

During the grand opening week in July 2004, press reports described the omphalos as the "spoon-like underbelly".

The accelerator, 54 miles in circumference, would have made that town the omphalos of high-energy particle research.

It now seems that Florida's karma is to be the omphalos of American weirdness.

In the novel, the omphalos is described as a small smooth black cone with a knotted net covering its surface.