Navel of the earth. Omphalos, the central point on the earth disc.
Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Nature and condition of the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A875.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Jewish Neuman
- Norse Boberg.
- general *Holmberg Baum des Lebens 150 s.v. "Mittelpunkt"
- general *Frazer Pausanias V 314f.
- general *Pease Cicero De Divinatione 353 (Bk. II 115)
- general *Roscher Abh. kgl. Sächs. Ges. d. Wiss. (Phil. hist. Kl.) XXIX (1913) 9, XXXI (1915) 1, Berichte d. kgl Sächs. Ges. d. Wiss. (Phil. hist. Kl.) LXX (1918) 2
- general Warren Paradise Found (1885) 225ff.
- general Gaster Thespis 170f.
Within the index
Filed under Earth wheel-shaped (flat and round).
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it
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