How to pronounce “omphalos”

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).
• The navel.
• A raised central point; a boss.
• The center or hub.

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