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![[image of Delphic Omphalos]](Delphic%20Omphalos.gif)
Omphalos Orbis
is the Navel of the World, the Cosmic Axis, and this
image shows the Tree at the Navel of the Earth and the Goddess of the
Tree. In the background on the left is Scylla’s Mount, the
heavens-piercing Way of Ascent by which the Sage climbs the Celestial
Pole. On the right is a lower peak, the Way of Descent, which
leads down past the Sacred Fig Tree toward Charybdis, by which the Mage
sinks into the Watery Abyss. In the center, on top of the Sacred
Mountain, is the Omphalos Stone, a larger version of the one at Delphi
(see image to right). The Winged Oak, the Tree of Life, grows
atop it; it is the Cosmic Pillar connecting Heaven and Earth. In
front of it stands Helen, the Spirit of the Tree of Life. (“Helen I,” a more detailed depiction of Helen and Her Tree, is also in this gallery.) (For more on the World Navel, see the Olympic Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, verses viij–xij.)
Digitally executed using DAZ|Studio®, Bryce® 5, and Bryce® 6.
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