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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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But for me they are also the navel, the omphalos, the centre of De Vore's art.
Richard De Vore
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20) Por tal motivo y por estar ubicada sobre el eje central primigenio Este-Oeste del Templo Mayor, esta peculiar estructura petrea pudiera simbolizar una suerte de omphalos que servia de portal hacia el inframundo.
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Her baby was a very rare but eatable condition, called omphalos, where his domen and liver were wing outside his body.
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