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Word: omphalos (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.
  • The theological proposition that the world was created with certain indicia of a history which had not actually occurred (such as the humans who had never been connected to umbilical cords being created with navels).

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