艺廊作品介绍
翁法洛斯（omphalos）在希腊语中意为“肚脐”，是一种人造的宗教性圆形石器，象征着“大地的肚脐”。据说宙斯曾经放出两只老鹰：一只向东飞，一只向西飞，这两只老鹰在环绕大地一圈后汇合于德尔斐，因此这里即为大地的中心[1]。人们在据信为老鹰汇合的地方竖立了一个白色的圆柱形大理石，以纪念这个传说。另一个传说是来自克洛诺斯被儿子宙斯挑战后，吐出的一块石头，掉到地面上所在位置即是宇宙的中心。事实上，在环地中海地区的很多地方都竖有翁法洛斯。
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An omphalos is a religious stone artefact. In Ancient Greek, the word ὀμφᾰλός (omphalós) means "navel". Among the Ancient Greeks, it was a widespread belief that Delphi was the center of the world. According to the myths regarding the founding of the Delphic Oracle, Zeus, in his attempt to locate the center of the Earth, launched two eagles from the two ends of the world, and the eagles, starting simultaneously and flying at equal speed, crossed their paths above the area of Delphi, and so that was the place where Zeus placed the stone. The Latin term is umbilicus mundi, 'navel of the world'.
Omphalos is also the name of the stone given to Cronus.
Delphi
Most accounts locate the Delphi omphalos in the adyton (sacred part of the temple) near the Pythia (oracle). The stone sculpture itself, which may be a copy, has a carving of a knotted net covering its surface and a hollow center, widening towards the base. The omphalos represents the stone which Rhea wrapped in swaddling clothes, pretending it was Zeus, in order to deceive Cronus. (Cronus was the father who swallowed his children so as to prevent them from usurping him as he had deposed his own father, Uranus.)
Omphalos stones were believed to allow direct communication with the gods. Holland (1933) suggested that the stone was hollow to allow intoxicating vapours breathed by the Oracle to channel through it. Erwin Rohde wrote that the Python at Delphi was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo and buried under the Omphalos. However, understanding of the use of the omphalos is uncertain due to destruction of the site by Theodosius I and Arcadius in the 4th century CE.
Art
Omphalos is a public art sculpture by Dimitri Hadzi formerly located in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts under the Arts on the Line program. The sculpture was removed on 2014, to be relocated to Rockport, Massachusetts.
Omfalos is a concrete and rock sculpture by the conceptual artist Lars Vilks, previously standing in the Kullaberg nature reserve, Skåne County, Sweden. As of 2001, the sculpture belongs to the collections of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Omphalos syndrome
Omphalos syndrome refers to the belief that a place of geopolitical power and currency is the most important place in the world.
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