| 单词 | omphalos stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasomphalos stone a. With the. In the temple of Apollo at Delphi: a sacred stone of a rounded conical shape, supposed to mark the centre of the earth; also omphalos stone. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > middle or centre > fabled central point of earth omphalos1847 society > faith > artefacts > furniture > other furniture > [noun] > stone omphalos1847 1847 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art 384 Apollo sitting on the tripod and with his feet on the omphalos [Ger. Omphalos]. 1870 W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. of Greece II. ii. iv. 23 The Omphalos, or navel-stone, marked out the Pythian sanctuary as the spiritual centre of the Hellenes. 1895 P. Gardner in P. Gardner & F. B. Jevons Man. Greek Antiq. ii. i. 70 Zeus set forth two eagles from the two ends of the earth and they met at Delphi, whence the Omphalos at Delphi was regarded as the centre of the world. 1925 F. J. Fielden tr. M. P. Nilsson Hist. Greek Relig. iv. 109 In the stone a power resided, and it was therefore annointed..and received a cult. The famous omphalos at Delphi is a stone of this nature. 1954 R. B. Onions Origins of European Thought ii. x. 281 Such a seat of inspiration was the oracular omphalos stone, identified with the Earth-goddess at Delphi. 1994 R. Fisher Birmingham River 14 I've held my hands to the displaced Omphalos-stone, the single centre, Not of the planet, but of the earth's shifting Surface, the live map. < as lemmas |
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