How Omphalós was rebuilt, mark by mark
The workshop file for Omphalós. Every rejected form is recorded here too — that is the point of keeping notes.
What We Found
The attestation, as LSJ and Pape-Benseler record: ὀμφαλός. Meaning: "Navel (of the earth); the stone at Delphi regarded as the centre of the world".
The figure behind the name: The stories of Omphalós circulate within the Greek corpus, where the figure embodies navel, center, delphi.
What the Name Carried In
Primary Attestation. Omphalós is attested in the canonical Greek sources as a figure associated with navel, center, delphi.
Name and Meaning. The name means "Navel (of the earth); the stone at Delphi regarded as the centre of the world" and reflects the figure's role in the tradition.
A spelling that has to carry stories like these is not a label. It is equipment.
Where It Stood Before Us
Omphalós is attested in the textual and iconographic record of the Greek tradition. The bench inherits all of it — the web temple is the newest site, not the first.
What We Kept
The evidence, mark by mark — 1 feature the keyboard form omphalos cannot hold:
- o → ó — Acute on omicron. Kept.
What We Rejected
The plain ASCII omphalos — admissible as a fallback, never as the primary. A wrong accent would have been worse: the rulebook is explicit that a misplaced mark is worse than none.
What We Set Down
Omphalós — The restoration keeps one feature the ASCII form drops. One is enough to matter, and the label says so plainly: Tier-2.
For the voice: 'OMPHALOS' — pronounce the restored form with attention to the preserved diacritics and length.
The temple stands at /sites/omphalos/ — the notes above are public in its Scholarly Edition, sources and all.
At a Glance
- Restored name: Omphalós
- ASCII form: omphalos
- Meaning: "Navel (of the earth); the stone at Delphi regarded as the centre of the world"
- Domain of influence: Navel, Center, Delphi
- Pantheon: Greek
- Classification: Tier 2
- Original script: ὀμφαλός
- Series: The Restoration Files, No. 269 of 397
The File Continues
The temple's founding dispatch tells the name's story; its Resonance File reads the myths into the industries; the blog index holds the whole archive.
Continue the series — previous file: Oṃ (read it here) · next file: Orpheús (read it here).
The Restoration Files are written from the same canonical record as the temples themselves: the lexicon, the lore catalog, the pattern atlas, and the cited scholarly sources. If a file ever disagrees with its temple, the temple is right — tell us, and the file will be corrected.