Other uses An omphalos is an ancient religious stone Artifact archaeology artifact , or baetylus . In Greek language Greek , the word omphalos means navel compare the name of Queen Omphale . According ..., the navel of the world. Omphalos stones used to denote this point were erected in several areas surrounding ... given to Cronus in Zeus place in Greek mythology. Delphi Image Omphalos museum.jpg thumb The omphalos in museum of Delphi . Most accounts locate the Omphalos in the temple adyton near the Pythia ... a hollow centre, which widens towards its base illustrated, to the right . The Omphalos at Delphi ... not grow up and depose him as he had deposed his own father, Uranus mythology Uranus . Omphalos ... under the Omphalos, and that it is a case of one god setting up his temple on the grave of another ... .jpg thumb Omphalos in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre , Jerusalem . In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem there is also an omphalos. The existence of this stone is based upon the medieval ... Joyce s Ulysses novel Ulysses Buck Mulligan describes his home in a Martello tower as an omphalos blockquote Billy Pitt had them built, Buck Mulligan said, when the French were on the sea. But ours is the OMPHALOS ... SaDuMuangChiangRai.jpg right thumb Omphalos of Chiang Rai , Thailand . In chapter 14, Mulligan proposes blockquote ... to set up there a national fertilising farm to be named OMPHALOS with an obelisk ... monks. Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos. blockquote There are a number of omphalos allusions ... and the Peril at Delphi , features the Omphalos as the MacGuffin . In the novel, the omphalos is described ... as being petrified rather than carved as it is on the actual omphalos at Delphi. When one holds the omphalos they can see into the near and distant future. In the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Fafhrd ... origins. Omphalos is the name of a ship in The Unteleported Man later republished as Lies, Inc. by Philip K. Dick . Glastonbury Abbey is described as an omphalos by the character Mansur in Diana Norman ... more details
Wikt omphalos An omphalos is a type of ancient religious stone artifact. Omphalos may also refer to Omphalos Stone , a stone in Greek mythology Omphalos book , by Philip Gosse Omphalos hypothesis , which proposes that God made the world appear old when he created it Omphalos sculpture , a sculpture in southern Sweden, named after the Omphalos in Delphi disambig nl Omphalos sk Omfalos ... more details
creationism2 The Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos book Omphalos by Philip Henry Gosse , in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be functional , God must have created the Earth with mountains and canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and navel s omphalos is Greek language Greek for navel , and that therefore no evidence that we can see of the presumed Age of the Earth age of the earth and age of the universe universe can be taken as reliable. The idea has seen some revival in the 20th century by some Creationism creationists , Who date January 2012 who have extended the argument to light that appears to originate in far off star s and galaxy galaxies Citation needed lead date January 2012 although other creationists reject this explanation ref http www.answersingenesis.org docs 405.asp How can we see distant stars in a young universe? Bot generated title ref . Many creationists believe that Adam and Eve Bible Eve had no navels, and that the trees in the Garden of Eden had no growth rings. ref http www.answersingenesis.org creation v18 i3 bellybutton.asp Did Adam have a belly button? Bot generated title ... Gosse s original Omphalos hypothesis specifies a popular creation story, others have proposed ... that the Omphalos hypothesis rejects at the outset. Hebblethwaite also suggests that God necessarily ... Creationism Jewish creationism Jewish commentaries on the age of the Universe delve into the Omphalos ... books?id xvycg3RMAW4C&pg PA22 ref that explored the rejection of Gosse s Omphalos . Borges argued ... thesis History of the world Jewish mythology Omphalos book Omphalos book Simulated Reality Sons ... ron omph.htm Ron Roizen, The rejection of Omphalos a note on shifts in the intellectual hierarchy ... DEFAULTSORT Omphalos Hypothesis Category Creationism Category Pseudohistory Category Skepticism ... lt Bambos hipotez hu Omphalos hipot zis ja sv Omphalos hypotesen ... more details
Other uses Omphalos disambiguation Omphalos An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot is a book by Philip Gosse , written in 1857 two years before Charles Darwin Darwin s On the Origin of Species , in which he argues that the fossil record is not evidence of evolution , but rather that it is an act of creation inevitably made so that the world would appear to be older than it is. The reasoning parallels the reasoning that Gosse chose to explain why Adam Bible Adam who would have had no mother had a navel Though Adam would have had no need of a navel, God gave him one anyway to give him the appearance of having a human ancestry. Thus, the name of the book, Omphalos , which means navel in Greek. Synopsis The first three chapters of the book are a review of the geological evidence available at the time the 1850s which is a generally fair description. He then states his major assumptions I shall take for granted the two following principles I. The creation of matter. II the persistence of species ... was projected in the mind of God, and not really existent. ref cite book title Omphalos author ... p. 347 ref Gosse s main concerns in Omphalos was to bolster the principle of creation which as he ... in ten thousand readers. The reviewer concluded that Omphalos contained idle speculations, fit only ... desperately wrong about Omphalos ? Only this really and perhaps paradoxically that we can devise no way to find out whether it is wrong or for that matter, right. Omphalos is the classical example of an utterly ...?id xvycg3RMAW4C&pg PA22 ref The theory presented in the book is now called the Omphalos theology omphalos hypothesis that the world and everything in it could have been created at any time, even ... Gosse, Philip H. Omphalos An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot . John Van Voorst, London, 1857. Reprinted ... H. Omphalos An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot . John Van Voorst, London, 1857 A http books.google.com ... of Omphalos a note on shifts in the intellectual hierarchy of mid nineteenth century Britain ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Image Omphalos Apollo Musei Capitolini MC638.jpg thumb right 150px Omphalos Apollo, Roman copy, Musei Capitolini . Calamis fl. 5th century BC was a sculpture sculptor of ancient Greece . He was possibly from Boeotia , but nothing certain is known of his life. He is known to have worked in marble , bronze , gold , and ivory , and was famed for statue s of horse s. According to Pausanias geographer Pausanias 9.16.1 , Calamis produced a statue of Zeus Ammon for Pindar , and mentions a Hermes Criophorus for Tanagra 9.22.1 , which was later depicted on Roman coins of the city. His statue of Alexicacus Apollo Alexikakos stood in the Ceramicus of Athens . He produced his most ambitious work, a 30 cubit statue of Apollo for Apollonia Pontica on modern St. Ivan Island , Bulgaria Pliny the Elder 4.92, 34.39, Strabo 7.6.1, p. 319 . His Sosandra was praised by Lucian , and may have been copied for Aspasia , which in turn was copied by the Romans. Cp. Calamis 4th century BC . DEFAULTSORT Calamis Category 5th century BC Greek sculptors Category Ancient Greek sculptors Category Ancient Boeotians Category Art of ancient Boeotia bg de Kalamis es Calamis fr Calamis it Calamide nl Calamis pl Kalamis pt K lamis ru ... more details
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher 12 February 1845, G ttingen 9 March 1923, Dresden was a German classical scholar . He is best known for his Lexicon , the Ausf hrliches Lexikon der griechischen und r mischen Mythologie . He also published Neue Omphalosstudien Ein Archaologischer Beitrag zur Vergleichenden Religions Wissenschaft 1915 , an archaeological study of the omphalos myth. The economist Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher was his father. External links BBKL r roscher w h band 8 autor Susanne Siebert artikel Roscher, Wilhelm Heinrich spalten 665 666 Category German classical scholars Roscher da Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher de Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher es Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher fr Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher it Wilhelm H. Roscher pl Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher ru , sv Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher ... more details
Infobox musical artist name Strapping Fieldhands image caption image size background group or band origin Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA genre Indie rock years active 1991 1997 br 1999 present label Siltbreeze Records br Omphalos Records br The Now Sound br Shangri La Records associated acts King of Siam http www.myspace.com kingofsiamband current members Bob Dickie br Bob Malloy br Jacy Webster br Jeff Werner br Robert Bell past members Sky Kishlo br Ferenzik John Ferenzik notable instruments Guitar, Percussion, Drums, Cello, Double Bass, Sitar, Violin, Keyboard The Strapping Fieldhands are an American indie rock band based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania , and are associated with the Siltbreeze label and American lo fi psych scene. The band s first live incarnation was a three piece opening for The Frogs band The Frogs . During the 1990s the Fieldhands would tour extensively with Grifters band The Grifters , Guided by Voices , Pavement band Pavement , and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 , playing shows with The Fall band The Fall , Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , Royal Trux and others. Discography Albums Discus album Discus LP Omphalos Records, 1994 The Caul LP The Now Sound, 1995 Wattle & Daub LP CD Shangri La Records , 1996 Third Kingdom LP CD Omphalos Records, 2002 EPs The Demiurge E.P. 7 Siltbreeze Records , 1991 Future Pastoral E.P. 7 Siltbreeze Records, 1993 In The Pineys E.P. 10 CD Siltbreeze Records, 1994 Compilations Gobs on the Widway Singles 1991 95 CD Siltbreeze Records, 1996 Singles Stacey Donelly 7 Siltbreeze Records, 1992 Neptune s World 7 Siltbreeze Records, 1995 Sun 7 Compulsiv Records , 1995 Goat Cheese Porn Weasel split 7 with Mudhoney , Amphetamine Reptile Records , 1995 Ben Franklin Airbath Forget You split 7 with http www.myspace.com thesimpleones The Simple Ones Shangri La Records, 1996 Appearances Just Too Much on Pimp s Toe Accelerator E.P. , Ptolemaic Terrascope , 1994 Tale from Telegewae on Succour The Terrascope Benefit Album , Ptolemaic ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date November 2006 Omphalion in Greek means navel of the earth compare the omphalos of Delphi . Hagia Sophia File Omphalion ste sophie istanbul 15 oct 2011.jpg thumb right Omphalion at the Hagia Sophia 2011 The Omphalion is a group of circular marble slabs fitted into a design on the main floor of the Great Church of Hagia Sophia Church of the Holy Wisdom in Constantinople modern Istanbul . The Omphalion is located in front of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman muezzin lodge. In the centre the larger slab is the location where the coronation of every Byzantine Basileus Greek or Emperor, took place. This is also the spot where the Emperor would sit and participate during church ceremonies. On March 24th, 2011, two visitors to the Hagia Sophia were spotted in the early hours of the morning standing on the Omphalion. It was later revealed that they had gotten engaged on the Omphalion. Other Omphalia The word omphalion is also used to describe other sacred circular marking slabs that were usually located in important or especially sacred churches throughout the Byzantine Empire. This marble omphalion photo currently unavailable , from the floor of the Church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond north coast of modern Turkey , was brought to Thessalonica modern Thessaloniki by Greek refugees in 1924. Category Byzantine art ... more details
Gosse is a surname and may refer to Bob Gosse born 1963 , an American film producer and director Clarence Gosse 1912 1996 , a Canadian physician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Edmund Gosse 1849 1928 , an English poet, author and critic, son of Philip Henry Gosse Emily Bowes Gosse 1806 1857 , a Victorian painter and illustrator George Gosse 1912 1964 , an Australian mine clearance specialist Gordie Gosse , a Canadian politician John Gosse , a geologist Nicolas Gosse 1787 1878 , a French historical painter Peter Gosse born 1938 , a German poet, prose author and essayist Philip Henry Gosse 1810 1888 , an English naturalist and the author of Omphalos An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot Sylvia Gosse 1881 1968, born Laura Gosse , an English painter and engraver, daughter of Edmund Gosse William Gosse 1842 1881 , an English explorer See also Gosses Bluff , an impact crater in the southern Northern Territory, Australia Gosse Ludigman elected 989, died 1000 , the sixth elected governor of Friesland Saint Laurent de Gosse and Sainte Marie de Gosse , two communes in the Landes department in Aquitaine, France disambiguation de Gosse Begriffskl rung fr Gosse ... more details
section date January 2012 lacking a source for the Omphalos hypothesis being applied to light created in transit , this entire section is synthesis Main Omphalos hypothesis The Omphalos hypothesis was originally proposed in the context of geology , in the 1857 book Omphalos book Omphalos by Philip Henry ... geologist of the time Charles Lyell , with a recent creation. ref Philip H. Gosse, Omphalos An Attempt ... has an appearance of age, but is actually very young. Omphalos is Greek for navel belly button. The theory ... of earlier events being merely planted by God. The Omphalos hypothesis, as applied to cosmology ... more details
Image 20060121CondobolinMtTilgaOtto 003.jpg 350px thumb View from the top of Mount Tilga, not quite the omphalos of NSW Mount Tilga coord 33 01 31 S 147 08 10 E region AU NSW type mountain display inline,title is a hill 329 metres high which rises sharply out of the plain eight kilometres north of Condobolin, New South Wales Condobolin . Mount Tilga is said to be the exact centre of New South Wales . ref CondobolinTourism , but establishing the centroid centre of an irregular shape is not a straightforward matter. Just where the centre of the State lies is open to dispute. According to Geoscience Australia , which has investigated the issue, a possible centre for New South Wales is just off Cockies Road, 33 km west north west of Tottenham, New South Wales Tottenham , a small town 110 kilometres west of Dubbo . This spot, coord 32 09 48 S 147 01 00 E region AU NSW south of the Fiveways Intersection, is marked by a cairn constructed for Australian Bicentenary Australia s Bicentennial celebrations in 1988 in Australia 1988 . ref GACentre References note CondobolinTourism cite web author year url http www.totaltravel.com.au travel nsw explorernsw parkes guide condobolin title Condobolin, Parkes & Forbes NSW & ACT Australia format work Travel guide publisher Total Travel Australia accessdate 2006 01 29 Also cite web author year 2004 url http www.smh.com.au news New South Wales Condobolin 2005 02 17 1108500193350.html title Condobolin, New South Wales work Sydney Morning Herald Travel publisher Fairfax Digital smh.com.au accessdate 2006 01 29 note GACentre cite web author year 2004 url http www.ga.gov.au education facts dimensions centre.htm fivecentres title Centre of Australia, States and Territories format work Education Fab Facts publisher Geoscience Australia accessdate 2006 01 29 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20060108193717 http www.ga.gov.au education facts dimensions centre.htm fivecentres Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2006 01 08 Category Mountains of New ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 Orphan date February 2009 Napakivi pole navel stone or tonttukivi elf stone is a traditional Finland Finnish name for a standing stone in the middle of a field or another central spot. Generally speaking napakivi are unhewn stones that people have set upright. Some of them may have been erected by withdrawal of the receding ice masses after the ice age, in which case they will not be napakivi proper. Napakivi are usually longish and erect, and frequently have a round head. This has been interpreted by some to perhaps indicate an omphalos penis penile reference symbolically. Napakivi can be located in the middle of a field, or the heart of an adjacent pile of stones which will be compiled of stones which had to be removed from the field to make it cultivatable by a plough . It can also be the central stone of a burial mound. Napakivi may have been considered facilitators of fertility or protectors of domain, or they may have been legal indidcators of ownership. It is plausible they may have been considered some kind of magical centres of force or energy accumulators perhaps the seat of a tutelary spirits power. The name tonttukivi refers to the elfs known as tonttu and also to the Finnish language word for a plot of land tontti . Some stones equivalent to napakivi have been referred to with the term Juminkeko or Jumin kurikka , in which case they will have been connected to the mysterious spirit known as Jumi , who served as the basis for the Finnish word for god . Napakivi may have some cultural connection with saami seid s or central European and great British megaliths , although it has not been demonstrated with any scientific rigour. Megaliths too are erected by ancient folk, giant, usually over man high stones which are sole or in groups. Most megaliths as well are considered to have a connexion to the penis and fertility. A stone in the center of a graveyard set up at the end of battle to interr the combatants is often called a n ... more details
File Childs Hill Park.JPG thumb Childs Hill Park is a public park in Childs Hill in the London Borough of Barnet . Together with the neighbouring Basing Hill Park , it is one of Barnet s Premier Parks . ref http www.barnet.gov.uk index environment planning parks and open spaces premier parks.htm London Borough of Barnet, Premier Parks ref It is a mainly grassed area with two tennis courts, a bowls club, a children s playground, a cafe and toilets. Clitterhouse Brook, a tributary of the River Brent , runs along the southern edge in a concrete pipe which is visible in places. ref http middlesexcountycouncil.org.uk index.php?option com content&task view&id 15&Itemid 27 Middlesex County Council, The Brent Cross Omphalos ref There is access from Nant Road, Hodford Road and Granville Road. History Childs Hill was probably named after Richard le Child, a local landowner in the fourteenth century. In the late nineteenth century, there was rapid housing development, and in 1891 the land for Childs Hill Park was gifted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Hendon Local Board, ref http www.londongardensonline.org.uk gardens online record.asp?ID BAR013 London Gardens Online, Childs Hill Park ref which became Municipal Borough of Hendon Hendon Urban District Council in 1895. Hendon became part of the London Borough of Barnet in 1965. ref http www.british history.ac.uk report.aspx?compid 26885 Victoria County History, Hendon Local Government, 1976 ref See also Barnet parks and open spaces External sites http www.barnet.gov.uk index environment planning parks and open spaces premier parks childshill basinghill parks.htm London Borough of Barnet, Childs Hill and Basing Hill Parks http www.londongardensonline.org.uk gardens online record.asp?ID BAR013 London Gardens Online, Childs Hill Park http www.kidsfunlondon.co.uk kids london park childs hill park.html London Kids Fun, Childs Hill Park http www.childshillallotments.org.uk pages History.html Child s Hill Allotment Society, ... more details
Year nav topic5 1857 literature poetry The year 1857 in literature involved some significant new books. Events Jules Verne marries Honorine de Viane Morel. The illustrated weekly, ber Land and Meer , is founded by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackl nder and Edmund von Zoller . Obscene Publications Act 1857 is passed in the United Kingdom , placing severe restrictions on the content of published books until it is replaced with a less stringent one in 1959. New books Hans Christian Andersen To Be or Not to Be Hans Christian Andersen To Be or Not to Be R. M. Ballantyne The Coral Island Ungava a Tale of Eskimo Land George Borrow The Romany Rye Charlotte Bront The Professor novel The Professor Wilkie Collins The Dead Secret Charles Dickens Little Dorrit Alexandre Dumas, p re The Wolf Leader Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary Catherine Gore The Two Aristocracies Thomas Hughes Tom Brown s Schooldays George Alfred Lawrence George A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone, or Thorough Fitz Hugh Ludlow The Hasheesh Eater Herman Melville The Confidence Man G. W. M. Reynolds The Necromancer novel The Necromancer Joseph Xavier Saintine Seul Catharine Maria Sedgwick Married or Single? Adalbert Stifter Der Nachsommer William Makepeace Thackeray The Virginians Anthony Trollope Barchester Towers New drama Wilkie Collins with Charles Dickens The Frozen Deep Liautaud Eth art Le Monde de Chez Nous Henrik Ibsen The Vikings at Helgeland Poetry Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du mal Non fiction Delia Bacon The Philosophy of Shakespeare s Plays Elizabeth Gaskell The Life of Charlotte Bront , Smith, Elder & Co. , biography Philip Gosse Omphalos book Omphalos An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot Hinton Rowan Helper The Impending Crisis of the South Washington Irving The Life of George Washington , Volume 4 Allan Kardec The Spirits Book William Henry Smith 1825 1891 W. H. Smith Bacon and Shakespere An Inquiry Touching Players, Play Houses, and Play writers in the Days of Elizabeth Births February Arthur Tolkien , fat ... more details
Year nav topic 1857 science The year 1857 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy Peter Andreas Hansen s Tables of the Moon are published in London . ref cite journal author W. T. L. title Peter Andreas Hansen journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society volume 35 year 1875 url http articles.adsabs.harvard.edu full seri MNRAS 0035 0000170.000.html pages 168 170 accessdate 2011 08 26 ref Biology Miles Joseph Berkeley Rev. M. J. Berkeley publishes Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany . Chemistry Robert Bunsen invents apparatus for measuring effusion . Alfred Nobel patent s dynamite . ref cite book last1 Sch ck first1 H. last2 Sohlman first2 R. year 1929 title The Life of Alfred Nobel location London publisher Heinemann ref Earth sciences January 9 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake Fort Tejon earthquake on the San Andreas Fault with a Moment magnitude scale moment magnitude of 7.9. ref cite web url http earthquake.usgs.gov earthquakes states events 1857 01 09.php title Historic Earthquakes Fort Tejon, California publisher United States Geological Survey date 2009 10 21 accessdate 2011 07 19 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20110623115431 http earthquake.usgs.gov earthquakes states events 1857 01 09.php archivedate 23 June 2011 DASHBot deadurl no ref Medicine March 12 Elizabeth Blackwell opens the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children . B n dict Morel publishes Trait des d g n rescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l esp ce humaine et des causes qui produisent ces vari t s maladives . Technology March 23 Elisha Otis first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City . Publications Naturalist Philip Henry Gosse P. H. Gosse s Creationism creationist text Omphalos book Omphalos An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot is published in England . Awards Copley Medal Michel Eug ne Chevreul Wollaston Medal for geology Joachim Barrande Births January 20 Vladimir Bekhterev d. 1927 in science 1927 , ... more details
council. Citation needed date March 2007 In 1999, another sculpture, Omphalos named after Omphalos ... identify Vilks as the sculptor, but the district court held that he was. The removal of Omphalos ... bought Omphalos from Vilks, and had requested that it not be damaged. In the early hours of 9 December ... a memorial in the place that Omphalos had stood. Permission was granted by the council to erect ... 0&lang Eng&id 2292 title Omphalos work Moderna Museet cite web accessdate July 14, 2005 url http members.tripod.com ... more details
was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo, and buried under the Omphalos , and that it is a case ... Apollon in original and guarding the Omphalos , the sacred navel stone and mid point of the earth ... more details
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about the Seleucid King of the third century BC the king of Commagene of the first century BC Antiochus I Theos of Commagene File Ai Khanoum gold stater of Antiochos1.jpg thumb 300px Gold stater of Antiochus I minted at Ai Khanoum , c. 275 BC. Obverse Diademed head of Antiochus right. Reverse Nude Apollo seated on omphalos left, leaning on bow and holding two arrows. Greek legend BA I E ANTIOXOY of King Antiochos . monogram of Ai Khanoum in left field. Image AntiochusI.jpg thumb 300px right Silver coin of Antiochus I. The reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos . The Greek inscription reads & 32 of king Antiochus . Antiochus I Soter Ancient Greek Greek , i.e. Antiochus the Savior , unknown 261 BC , was a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire . He reigned in 281 BC 261 BC. Antiochus I was half Persian people Persian , his mother Apama being one of the eastern princesses whom Alexander the Great had given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the death of his father Seleucus I Nicator Seleucus I , Antiochus married his stepmother, Stratonice of Syria Stratonice , daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes . His elderly father reportedly instigated the marriage after discovering that his son was in danger of dying of lovesickness. Stratonice bore five children to Antiochus Seleucus he was executed for rebellion , Laodice, Apama II , Stratonice of Macedon and Antiochus II Theos , who succeeded his father as king. On the assassination of his father in 281 BC, the task of holding together the empire was a formidable one. A revolt in Syria broke out almost immediately. Antiochus was soon compelled to make peace with his father s murderer, Ptolemy Keraunos , apparently abandoning Macedon ia and Thrace . In Anatolia he was unable to reduce Bithynia or the Persian dynasties that ruled in Cappadocia . In 278 BC the Gaul s broke into Anatolia, and a victory that Antiochus won over these hordes is said to have been the origin o ... more details
Superherobox Wikipedia WikiProject Comics image Image Delphyne.jpg caption Delphyne Gorgon. br Art by Clayton Henry . publisher Marvel Comics debut Incredible Hercules 121 September 2008 creators Greg Pak br Fred Van Lente br Clayton Henry character name Delphyne Gorgon full name Delphyne Gorgon species Human Gorgon hybrid alliances Amazons powers Skilled combatant, poison administered through fangs. Delphyne Gorgon is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. A Gorgon member of the Amazons Amazon nation, she is a love interest of Amadeus Cho . She first appeared in Incredible Hercules 121, and was created by Greg Pak , Fred Van Lente , and Clayton Henry . Fictional character biography In the classical age, the Amazons were engaged as mercenaries to battle an army of Gorgons. They were victorious, and took many Gorgons as prisoners, who gradually interbred with humans, and their genetic line continued within the Amazon nation. ref name Incredible Hercules 122 Incredible Hercules 122 ref Delphyne was assigned as a servant to Amazon Queen Hippolyta Marvel Comics Hippolyta s daughter Princess Artume at a very young age. She became a highly respected general, fighting in the siege of Olympus by the armies of Amatsu Mikaboshi comics Amatsu Mikaboshi . ref Incredible Hercules 123 ref When Princess Artume conceived of a scheme to depose her mother, locate the Omphalos and use it to remake the world in the Amazons image, Delphyne joined her. They abducted Amadeus Cho who they believed to be Hercules Marvel Comics Hercules s eromenos in order to convince him to help locate the Omphalos. Delphyne warned Cho that Artume was deceiving him claiming to have sympathy for small animals and morons ref name Incredible Hercules 122 , but Cho ignored her advice initially. Eventually, however, he saw reason, and the two kissed. This was witnessed by Artume, who attempted to murder Delphyne, but failed as a result of a lack of knowledge about Gorgon anatomy. Delphyne joined Ch ... more details
Image Jt01.jpg thumb right Pagoda or Chedi at Wat Phra That Doi Jom Thong Wat Phra That Doi Chom Thong lang th also known as Wat Phra That Doi Jom Thong is located in Nakhon Chiang Rai , Amphoe Mueang Chiang Rai Amphoe Mueang , Chiang Rai Province , Thailand . History Doi Chom Thong has undoubtedly been a sacred site for a very long time. The site was surely reverenced as the home of local spirits before Buddhism arrived in the area. As in many Thai wats Spirit Houses coexist happily with the newer Buddhist shrines. Elephants are part of the lore of Doi Chom Thong. Paw Kuhn Meng Rai was said to have been following an elephant that had wandered off when he first came upon Doi Chom Thong, a solitary hill on the banks of the River Kok. There is a Chedi or Golden Pagoda of Stupa located in the center of the temple. The Chedi is the focal point of the temple. The Chedi was constructed with a mixture of Bhu kam ancient Burma and Lanna style. It is around 14 meters high, the lotus petal base, the body, the bell, the top part of the Chedi were decorated with a gold foil. According to the Yonok Chronicle, the That or Chedi was originally built in the year 940 during the reign of Phraya Ruen Kaew , Prince of Chiang Rai, to house the Lord Buddha s relics. Those relics were originally acquired by Prince Pangkaraj of Yonok Nakpan, who divided them into three parts for the three temples of Wat Phra That Doi Tung, Wat Phra That Chomkitti, and Wat Phra That Doi Chom Thong, respectively. Later, in 1260, King Mengrai was said to have visited Doi Chom Thong where he viewed the surrounding area and found it suitable for the establishment of a city. He then ordered the beginning of the construction of the city of Chiang Rai and had Wat Phra That Doi Chom Thong restored. In 1992 B.E. 2535 the Lak Mueang City Pillar was moved from Wat Klang Wiang to Doi Chom Thong where it is known as Sadu Mueang TH , the Navel or Omphalos of the City. Gallery gallery Image ... more details
Omphaloskepsis is contemplation of one s navel as an aid to meditation . ref http www.merriam webster.com dictionary omphaloskepsis Merriam Webster s Collegiate Dictionary, p. 865 ref The word comes from Greek language Greek omphalos navel skepsis act of looking, examination . Similar words are omphaloskeptic one who engages in the practice and omphaloskeptical related to contemplation of one s navel . Actual use of the practice as an aid to contemplation of basic principles of the cosmos and human nature is found in India n yoga and sometimes in the Eastern Orthodox Church . ref http books.google.com books?id 00kybj nBIC&pg PA210&dq contemplation navel&hl en&ei cXYkTqanKoGZhQfv7Mz6Ag&sa X&oi book result&ct book thumbnail&resnum 3&ved 0CDMQ6wEwAg v onepage&q contemplation 20navel&f false Udo Becker, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Symbols Continuum International 2000 ISBN 9780826412218 , p. 210 ref Some consider the navel to be a powerful chakra of the body . ref http books.google.com books?id BpdgocexJpEC&pg PA99&dq contemplation navel&hl en&ei yHskToLDKIeohAe2r4y6Aw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 7&ved 0CEUQ6AEwBjgK v onepage&q contemplation 20navel&f false Royal L. Craig, Whispers beyond the Edge Xlibris 2010 ISBN 9781450079723 , p. 99 ref ref http books.google.com books?id I0OFnChLoZUC&pg PA15&dq contemplation navel&hl en&ei YIAkTpCMKIKYhQeplNS0Aw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 9&ved 0CE0Q6AEwCDgy v onepage&q contemplation 20navel&f false Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, Yantra Yoga Snow Lion 2008 ISBN 9781559393089 , p. 15 ref However, phrases such as contemplating one s navel or navel gazing are frequently used, usually in jocular fashion, to refer to self absorbed pursuits. ref http books.google.com books?id Af0UHcY0lyoC&pg PA490&dq contemplation navel&hl en&ei Y38kTvqHF4rNhAeqpdjNAw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 10&ved 0CFUQ6AEwCTgo v onepage&q contemplation 20navel&f false E.R. Lyn, Abbreviations Acronyms Glossary for American Readers CreateSpace 200 ... more details
Peter Richard Dreyer born November 15, 1939 is the author of A Beast in View London Andr Deutsch , The Future of Treason New York Ballantine , A Gardener Touched with Genius The Life of Luther Burbank New York Coward, McCann & Geoghegan rev. ed., Berkeley University of California Press new, expanded ed., Santa Rosa, CA Luther Burbank Home & Gardens , and Martyrs and Fanatics South Africa and Human Destiny New York Simon & Schuster London Secker & Warburg . He was born and brought up in South Africa , where he was involved in the Internal resistance to South African apartheid anti apartheid struggle, serving on the Cape Provincial Committee of the Liberal Party of South Africa Liberal Party , founded and led by Alan Paton , and as secretary of the Western Province Press Association, which published the fortnightly The Citizen which ceased publication in 1959 and should not be confused with the pro apartheid tabloid of the same name launched in 1976 . On February 8, 1958, Patrick Duncan launched the Liberal Party fortnightly Contact , with offices on Parliament Street in Cape Town. Dreyer worked closely with Duncan, and in Contact , 1, no. 15, dated August 23, 1958, he published an article about the newly formed nonracial South African Meat Workers Union under the by line Contact Special Correspondent. On the cover of the magazine, Duncan prominently placed the Citizen group slogan Forward to a South African patriotism based on non racial democracy. This was arguably the first call ever for a nonracial democracy in South Africa. No earlier instances have been cited. Dreyer left South Africa in 1962 and subsequently launched and edited Omphalos A Mediterranean Review in Athens . In 1972, however, he was expelled from Greece by the military Military dictatorship junta then in power there and moved to the United States . During the 1970s, he was book columnist for San Francisco magazine San Francisco magazine. Since 1988, he has lived in Virginia , where he is currently ... more details
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