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  • Classic readers will at once call to mind the appellation Omphalos or navel applied to the temple at

    Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

  • He was accustomed in his brighter moments -- and this was before the publication of his 'Omphalos' -- occasionally to sing loud Dorsetshire songs of his early days, in a strange, broad Wessex lingo that I loved.

    Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

  • After marching for half an hour, Oliver turned off the main trail at an arrow-shaped wooden signpost pointing the way to something called the Omphalos.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • After marching for half an hour, Oliver turned off the main trail at an arrow-shaped wooden signpost pointing the way to something called the Omphalos.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • After marching for half an hour, Oliver turned off the main trail at an arrow-shaped wooden signpost pointing the way to something called the Omphalos.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • After marching for half an hour, Oliver turned off the main trail at an arrow-shaped wooden signpost pointing the way to something called the Omphalos.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Gosse, published a book entitled Omphalos ‘the Navel’.

    A little more irony. - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • In his work entitled Omphalos he developed the theory previously urged by Granville Penn, and asserted a new principle called "prochronism."

    A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

  • After that, we’ll hike up into the hills, to a clearing known as the Omphalos, where O will lead everybody in a Bodhisattva vow.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • After that, we’ll hike up into the hills, to a clearing known as the Omphalos, where O will lead everybody in a Bodhisattva vow.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

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