omphalos

But for classical music, it’s the very omphalos, everything’s sort of seated, and it’s the hub.

All day long she sat over a hole in the ground, the omphalos, the navel of the earth, breathing petrochemical fumes escaping from underneath.

The chief replica is a statue at Athens, commonly called the 'Apollo on the Omphalos,' having been associated with a marble omphalos, or sacred cone of Apollo, which was discovered at the same time.

Yes; but if not of the earth, for earth's tenant Jerusalem was the omphalos of mortality.

This last summer he made a tour through the centre of the island, and obtained boreal shells at Buchlyvie in Stirlingshire,—the omphalos of Scotland.