Talk:Omphalos

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Omphalos is also the title of an intriguing and controversial mid-19th c. book by Philip Henry Gosse -- see http://www.roizen.com/ron/omph.htm .

Ron Roizen Wallace, Idaho

"The Sirius mystery" by Robert Temple ISBN 0 09 925744 0 has a complete different view of the matter.

Cleanup needed

This clearly needs to be either converted to a disambiguation page, or made into an article on the "main meaning" with a cross-reference to a new disambiguation page. Michael Hardy 02:06, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Omphalos in blogosphere

After an unofficial poll conducted via his blog, John Tierney of the New York Times announced that the hexagonal polar cloud formation seen on Saturn by the space probe Cassini-Huygens, would be known as Omphalos.

Pythia

According to the article on Pythia, it's a person, not a place. So the first sentence of the Delphi section makes no sense. Shouldn't it just be: "Most accounts locate the Omphalos in the adyton of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi."? If "Pythia" is another name for the Temple of Apollo, then it should be mentioned in Pythia, Pythia (disambiguation), or Temple of Apollo (Delphi).--71.105.219.2 (talk) 07:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Relevance of Warhammer?

I can see the connection with the references in Ulysses and Indiana Jones, but it is plain that the Warhammer Omphalos Daemon thing has no connection to the actual Omphalos other than name. Should it really be here? Sheavsey33 (talk) 05:44, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

A carved net?

The article states "The stone itself (which may have been a copy) has a carving of a knotted net covering its surface" . Examining this image of a digitally unwrapped version of the stone the decoration appears to be overlapping strings of beads. http://www.insightdigital.org/entry/images/delphi/delphi_dancers_4.jpg. Georg Steindorff in the The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology > Vol. 24, No. 2, Dec., 1938 mentions a similar structure in Egypt - the Omphalos of Napata. To quote: "During his excavations of the sanctuaries of Napata at Gebel Barkal, the sacred mountain of the Ethiopians, Reisner found inside the greate temple of Amun (B503) 'a conical sandstone block covered with sculptured necklaces, etc' "

This text (http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3854784?uid=3738736&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21101951519823) continues to note a possuble link with Delphi.

In the same journal (Gustavus A. Eisen American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1930), pp. 20-43) Eisen makes the following comment in an article entitle "Lotus and Melon beads"  : "The object of this paper is to illustrate the chronological sequence of the main types, to indicate the amuletic as well as the decorative nature of the beads, their use in burial rites, and in connection with the Omphalos at Delphi, and to point out the importance of beads for the dating of tombs and tomb objects" (see http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/498734?uid=3738736&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21101951519823)

If anyone has access to more sources (or the full versions of these articles) it might be worth mentioning the bead pattern in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brian1960law (talk • contribs) 20:52, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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the very love of scholars and scholarship from your unworthy 'goupie'.

Here I tender my clumbsey praise of of scholars and all things scholarly.I grew up poor in Santa Maria,Ca. In a two room shack in an alley.The Adult section of the Santa Maria Library was my sanctuary.I forced my father ,Charles Inman of Dunlap Ka.[ne 1910] to read me "Bulfinche's Mythology".I could barley understand it,but its intonation was all i needed at the time;an incantation such pleasures and their kindred acquitted me of the bitter shame of the poor and so enriched me.In the same way on T.V. Alister Cook and "Omnibus" the series and especially the "King Plays" of the Bard made My Shack A Temple and a Palace.Dad said"can you understand that stuff?",says I [of 10-?-]It's the sound ,Daddy,the 'Sound'The article on 'Apollo' and 'Cassandra'brought me to this praise.Such a lively abnd dancing romp of scolars;tjohninman707I'm fatigued now but in the following continuum to'Omphalos' is there a parallel to the Indic myth of Vishnu and Bramha's search for the end of the linga? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johninman707 (talk • contribs) 00:31, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Appropriateness of Ulysses

Just wondering if there is a more straightforward example of the word's use in literature than Ulysses. If I was educated well enough to be able to understand Joyce without explanation then I wouldn't be looking up Omphalos. Sorry if this comes across as glib or aggressive, it's just that I think one of Wikipedia's most important virtues is that it bypasses the traditional 'gatekeepers' of knowledge. It just seems counter intuitive to use for explanatory purposes a work widely regarded as among the most difficult in the English language. 144.48.37.100 (talk) 03:50, 26 November 2018 (UTC)