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- 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.