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[edit] April 23, 12:39am
We found Chapter 22 of the Lost Ring Codex in London. It looks like it's instructions for how to design a working omphalos!


Download the big pretty version of Chapter 22 from the Omphaputer
UPDATE:
We already have an English translation of this chapter-- hooray! Here it is... my big question is: Now that we know how to make one, where do we make one? And if it's not a simple omphalos (a real net over a real rock), then what does it mean to "tie a knot"?
Who made the first omphaloi, and what sort of message was the sculpture aiming to communicate?
Since ancient times, the majority of omphaloi were drawn in the form of the omphaloi: of Delphi: dome-shaped statues, made from stone, and chiselled in order to appear as “ret”-covered stone.
Nevertheless according to ancient histories, the statue at Delphi which survives today was not the first omphaloi at that place. It was the second omphaloi – a copy made in the 4th century BC. The first true omphaloi was different. It was made from a special type of a stone – aerolite – and was covered with a true woven net called argenon.
The original sacred stone fell out of the sky.
Meaning
Why did the ancient Greeks cover aerolite with a net?
In many worlds, historians believe that the original design of the omphaloi was the work of the original agonothetai – a direct allusion to their own labyrinths.
The woven design of the ‘diktuon’ was snake-like and circular, exactly the same as the labyrinth. And indeed, Dedalo, in Greek mythology, built the first labyrinth as a series of “waving (undulating) nets”
One also knows, that the temple at Delphi, later a shrine to Apollo the sun god, was initially created as a sacred-place to Gaea, the god of the earth.
If the agonothetai created the omphaloi, the design could very easily be an encoded message, sacred reminders covering the earth with labyrinths.
Design instructions
Find or create a rock in the shape of a dome (cupola) or egg-shaped (ovoid) sphere.
Cover the surface with circular, interconnected lines.
The lines should go in a circle, unbroken, and irregularly spaced.
The lines should intersect at least 27 times, creating 27 knots.
The lines should cross the largest part of the surface area – ideally, 85% or more.
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