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Omphalos

also known as navel-stone, the Navel of the World

Definition

The sacred navel-stone marking the center of the world — at Delphi a wool-wrapped stone set over the earth's fissure where Zeus's two swans met. Emblem of the Axis Mundi, the still point joining the worlds.

Etymology

Greek omphalos — 'navel.'

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