omphalus

Jupiter Ammon was esteemed of the highest antiquity, and we are informed that there was an omphalus here; and that the Deity was worshipped under the form of a navel.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

It is observable, that this historian does not mention an omphalus: but says, that it was a statue, ξοανον, which was carried about.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

Pausanias gives this account of the omphalus at Delphi.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

Diodorus speaks of this oracle, named Omphalian; but supposes that the true name was ομφαλος, omphalus: and says, that it was so called (strange to tell) because Jupiter, when he was a child, lost his navel here, which dropped into the river Triton: [748] Απο τουτου τοτε συμβαντος Ομφαλον προσαγορευθηναι το χωριον: _from this accident the place had the name of

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

In respect to the omphalus of Ammon, which Curtius has translated umbilicus, and garnished with gold and jewels, the whole arises from a mistake in terms, as in the many instances before.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

An oracle was given to Pelias in Thessaly: and whence did it proceed? from the well wooded omphalus of his mother Earth.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

[738] This omphalus was near the Plutonian cavern.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759