~ OMPHALE        id+ | CENTER of the EARTH or NAVEL |
                 id+ | QUEEN WHOSE SLAVE WAS HERCULES |
~ OMPHALION      id+ | name implying NOT TIED UP or TETHERED |
~ OMPHALISM      id+ | CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT |
~ OMPHALITIS     id+ | biol> med> INFLAMED UMBILICAL CORD |
~ OMPHALOCARPON  id+ | lat for nipple like KNOB |
~ OMPHALOCELE    id+ | SAC instead of a UMBILICAL CORD |
~ OMPHALOMANCY   id+ | OMENS FROM COUNTING UMBILICAL KNOTS |
~ OMPHALON       id+ | CENTER OF THE EARTH at DELPHI |
~ OMPHALOS       id+ | THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE |
                 id+ | HANDLE or BOSS OF A SHIELD |
                 id+ | THE BOSS or ANCHOR of the UNBORN |
                 id+ | ANCHOR or BOSS of a SHIELD |
                 id+ | CENTRAL ATTACHMENT POINT |
                 id+ | PROMINENT PERSON  so was called the
                       QUEEN OF LYDIA for being the
                       LOVING "ANCHOR" or "BOSS" OF HERCULES |
                 note  she had him "WRAPPED AROUND HER FINGER"
~ OMPHALOSKEPIS  id+ | NAVEL GAZING | as induced per
                       "BELLY DANCING |
  etym> hx> ANCIENT AEGEAN and other
            MEDITERRANEAN PEOPLE WORSHIPED
  OMPHALE or OVAL CONE or NAVEL LIKE STONE OBJECTS
  OMPHALE are CONICAL OVAL or  NAVEL SHAPED STONES
  OFTEN WERE CULT OBJECTS IN PRIMITIVE
  note EGG LIKE OVAL objects contrary to a
       SPHERE have an AXIS
  gr   OMPHALOS = BOSS OF A SHIELD
  lat  UMBO       BOSS as in HANDLE also KNOB
                  also HUB OF A WHEEL
       UMBILICUS  POINT OF ENTRY OF THE PLACENTAL CORD
                  INTO THE FETUS
  sp   OMBLIGO    or OMFALO
  lat  NAVE       HUB of a wheel or
  eng  NAVEL      UMBILICAL OVAL BOSS or PROMINENCE
                  see> NAVY
  myth>           OMPHALOS WAS A SACRED STONE
                  THAT CRONUS or CHRONUS SWALLOWED
  HE LATER DISGORGED  VOMITED or DELIVERED
  note see> NAUSEA  see> NAUTIC sug> NATIVE
  THIS ROUND STONE WAS KEPT IN
  THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO IN DELPHI
  A SITE CONSIDERED TO BE
  THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
  alt A SITE IN CRETE WAS ALSO CONSIDERED TO BE
      THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE or
  THE SPOT WHERE THE UMBILICAL CORD OF ZEUS FELL OFF
  myth> alt TO FIND THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
            ZEUS SIMULTANEOUSLY RELEASED
  TWO EAGLES OF EQUAL SPEED
  ONE FROM THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE WORLD
  AND ANOTHER FROM THE WESTERN EDGE
  THE EAGLES MET AT DELPHI and such is
  represented in Delphi by a EGG SHAPED STONE SCULPTURE
  myth> HERACLES or HERCULES BECAME BOUND TO QUEEN OMPHALE 
        FIRST AS A SLAVE BUT LATER BY LOVE 
  HERCULES HAD A VIOLENT TEMPER
  IN A FIT OF RAGE HE KILLED HIS GOOD FRIEND IPHITUS
  FOR THIS CRIME THE ORACLE AT DELPHI
  THE PHITHIA HAD NO PITY ON HIM
  HERCULES BECAME GRAVELY ILL AND TO BE PURIFED 
  HE WAS CONDEMEND TO BE AN OBEDIENT SLAVE OF A MORTAL 
  MERCURY SOLD HERCULES TO QUEEN OMPHALE
  SHE BECAME HIS LOVING OMPHALON or see> UMBO 
  A TERM DESCRIBING A NIPPLE LIKE PROTRUBERANCE 
  AKIN TO AN UMBILICUS 
  OMPHALE AND HERCULES HAD SEVERAL FAMOUS CHILDREN 
  among them see> AGELAOS
  myth> OMPHALE was the daughter of JARDANUS
        KING OF LYDIA with the widow of TMOLUS
  OMPHALE BECAME A LEGENDARY QUEEN
  HERACLES BECAME A DOUBLE SLAVE OF OMPHALE 
  BY LAW AND BY LOVE
  HE WAS SOLD TO HER AS A SLAVE AND BECAME 
  HER SLAVE BY LOVE 
  HIS SENTIMENTS WERE CORRESPONDED
  OMPHALE BECAME HIS "BOSS" AND
  THE LADY "PARAMOUNT" while HERCULES
  BECAME RESTRAINED AND DOMESTIC
  lit> ROMAN POETS DESCRIBE THE STAY OF HERCULES WITH
       OMPHALE AS EFFEMINATE LIVING
  HERCULES SPAN WOOL
  PUT ON GARMENTS OF A WOMAN BUT
  APOLLODORUS [#] and DIODORUS [#]
  SAY THAT HERCULES PERFORMED
  SEVERAL GREAT FEATS WHILE WITH OMPHALE
  such as THE EXPEDITION TO COLCHIS
  THE EXPEDITION AGAINST TROY
  THE CALYDONIAN HUNT     see> HERCULES
  hx> AT DELPHI THERE ARE TWO OMPHALOS or
      OMPHALIC MONUMENTS
  THE MAIN IS THE OMPHALOS ADYTUM
  OF THE TEMPLE FOR APOLLO
  some say IT REPRESENTS THE TOMB OF
  THE PYTHON or of DIONYSUS
  THERE ALSO ARE OTHER OMPHALOI or OMPHALOID or
  BEEHIVE LIKE TOMBS and ALTARS as in
  PHLIUS in PELOPONNESUS
  hx> art> OMPHALION was the name of a
           LIBERATED SLAVE implying
  no longer TETHERED or HELD BY THE CORD OF SLAVERY
  HE BECAME THE DISCIPLE OF THE PAINTER NICIAS AND
  PAINTED MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES ON THE WALLS OF
  THE TEMPLE OF MESSENE
  art> TWO GOLDEN EAGLES STOOD BESIDES
       THE OMPHALOS AT DELPHI
  LATER TAKEN AWAY BY PHILOMELUS
  DURING THE SACRED WARS
  art> in the Casa di Sirico in POMPEII
       there is a FRESCO depicting
  HERACLES and OMPHALE and so do
  many paintings including by LEMOYNE [#] and RUBENS [#]
  BOTH STRESSING THAT HERACLES or HERCULES
  WAS "SUBJUGUE" or SUBJUGATED ANCHORED or BOSSED by
  his love for OMPHALE to whom he became a
  SLAVE by LAW and by LOVE
  RUBENS SHOWS OMPHALE AMOROUSLY PUNISHING HERCULES
  hx> biol> med> OMPHALOMANCY denotes
                 the BELIEF THAT THE NUMBER OF KNOTS
  IN THE UMBILICAL CORD OF A FIRST BORN PREDICTS THE NUMBER
  OF FUTURE CHILDREN A MOTHER WILL HAVE
  lit+ one of the riddles that the
       QUEEN OF SHIBA posed to SALOMON
  "WHAT IS THAT HAS TEN OPENINGS
  WHEN ONE IS OPEN
  NINE ARE CLOSED
  WHEN THE ONE CLOSES
  THE NINE OPEN
  biol> NAVEL ORANGE implies THOSE WITH A DEPRESSION
  med>  UMBILICUS or OMPHALOS or NAVEL imply
        UMBILICAL CORD or in
  vern> BELLY BUTTON
  OMPHALOCELE IS A DEFECT DUE TO MALDEVELOPMENT OF
  THE ANTERIOR ABDOMINAL WALL
  RESULTING IN A PERSISTENCE OF THE OMPHALIC SAC
  THAT MAY CONTAIN BOWEL LIVER AND OTHER ORGANS