| 11. | During the long prime of the Spanish Main, Cuba was the geopolitical omphalos of the empire.
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| 12. | Recent studies by French archaeologists have demonstrated that the omphalos and the columns are connected and interlocked.
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| 13. | "I had a vision of Emory being the omphalos of the poetry world, " Schuchard said.
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| 14. | Sacred places constitute world centers ( omphalos ) with the altar or place of prayer as the axis.
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| 15. | The stone of the omphalos seems to have been decorated in high relief and had an oval shape.
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| 16. | They probably held a tripod ( not extant ) crowned by the omphalos displayed also in the same room.
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| 17. | Viewers are able to walk beneath the sculpture and look up into an " omphalos " or navel above them.
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| 18. | During the grand opening week in July 2004, press reports described the omphalos as the " spoon-like underbelly ".
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| 19. | Erwin Rohde wrote that the Python at Delphi was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo and buried under the Omphalos.
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| 20. | In literature, the word, " omphalos " has held various meanings but usually refers to the stone at Delphi.
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