Omphalos hypothesis

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromὀμφαλός“navel”
2. English todayOmphalos hypothesis

Named after the book Omphalos (1857) by Philip Henry Gosse, in which it was argued that, in order for the world to be "functional", God must have created the Earth with mountains, canyons, trees, etc. The word Omphalos comes from Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”), an example of one such feature putatively needed for completion.

Words from the same roots