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Omphalos

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A navel-stone of Greek sanctuary speech, famously at Delphi. Not generic stone, and not every later “center of the world” slogan.

Hellenic religion

  • Omphalos appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias describes the omphalos at Delphi as the navel-marker of that sanctuary. A named cult stone of the periegesis, not Lia Fáil and not the Stone of Scone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Omphalos is sacred to Apollo.

    Pausanias reports the omphalos at Delphi as Apollo’s navel-stone. A named stone of that god, not Benben, not the Delphic tripod, and not generic stone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    sacred to · sourced · documented

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