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omphalos

(ōm`fəlŏs), in Greek and Roman religion, navel-shaped stone used in the rites of many cults. The most famous omphalos was at Delphi; it was supposed to mark the center of the earth.

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New Delhi [India], Sep 17 ( ANI ): Mate Labs, an AI based start-up from Bangalore that focuses on providing easy solutions for non-developers and businesses, has announced raising funds worth USD 550,000 from lead investor Omphalos Ventures India LLP and other investors.

Mate Labs raises USD 550,000 from Omphalos Ventures

(53) The "Omphalus" argument is that God created the world with the appearance of age; this theory was promoted by the nineteenth-century naturalist Philip Henry Gosse in his Omphalos (1857).

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Omphalos was also the name of the Hebrew University English department's literary magazine that existed from 1993-2000.

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En el omphalos de este ostentoso recipiente observamos el rostro de un varon siendo devorado por un gran lobo alrededor de cuya cabeza se arremolinan las serpientes.

Las flautistas de Iberia. Mujer y transmision de la memoria social en el mundo iberico (siglos III-I a.C.)

Vale la pena recordar que el hogar fue vital para los griegos, hasta tal punto que, en honor a la diosa Hestia, representaba el ombligo del mundo (omphalos), donde los hijos recibian los alimentos, ensenanzas y los cuidados necesarios para ser nutridos en las labores diarias como nuevos ciudadanos (Graves, 1985, p.

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Esquilo en el prologo de Eumenides ofrece un buen ejemplo: la Pitia, que ha entrado en el templo de Apolo, sale horrorizada y describe lo que probablemente los espectadores empiezan a ver en esos instantes, (23) Orestes ensangrentado, con bandas de suplicante, sentado en el omphalos y a su alrededor unas horripilantes mujeres.

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Some were available to purchase at the IWF launch party and Omphalos performances, but fans may have missed them while ascending into Energy Eternal.

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Plato writes that wonder is the beginning of all philosophy; it is also the spiritual centre, the "belly-button," or omphalos for all the ascents and descents craved by students who intimate a deep learning in their "three-minute records."

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It was perceived as the navel (omphalos) of the world, the axis mundi.

Reading the Hebrew Bible in solidarity with the Palestinian people

(NYSE: SFE) with participation from Ascension Ventures, a subsidiary of Ascension, along with existing investors Fairview Health Services, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Arthur Ventures, Waterline Ventures and Omphalos Ventures.

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In short, to erect a world on the basis of omphalos, not on an abstract idea nailed to a cross" (243).

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The cave where both of them die together in an embrace is round shaped, and hence it's resemblance to an 'egg', 'womb' or 'Omphalos', as we have in Samus Heaney.