{"id":825,"date":"2022-02-22T01:54:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=825"},"modified":"2022-02-25T06:01:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T06:01:04","slug":"the-omphalos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/the-omphalos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Omphalos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"106\" height=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/omphalos-symbol-Roman-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3410\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An omphalos, also known as a Baetylus, is an ancient sacred stone artifact. The word omphalos means &#8220;navel&#8221; in Greek (compare the name of Queen Omphale). According to Greek mythology, Zeus dispatched two eagles to fly across the globe and meet at the &#8220;navel&#8221; of the globe. Omphalos stones were placed in numerous locations across the Mediterranean Sea to mark this point, the most famous of which was at the oracle in Delphi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An omphalos, also known as a Baetylus, is an ancient sacred stone artifact. The word omphalos means &#8220;navel&#8221; in Greek (compare the name of Queen Omphale). According to Greek mythology, Zeus dispatched two eagles to fly across the globe and meet at the &#8220;navel&#8221; of the globe. Omphalos stones were placed in numerous locations across &#8230; <a title=\"The Omphalos\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/the-omphalos\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Omphalos\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}