3 Replies Last post: Apr 24, 2008 6:28 PM by jasper  
Click to view mrjudkins's profile   35 posts since
Mar 10, 2008

Apr 22, 2008 6:27 AM

New Artifact Location - London, England

BLOIS/LONDON gives

Portobello
Print & Map
Just inside door, right
Low on wall
Behind old NA map

which is a map store.
http://portobelloprintandmap.co.uk/
109 Portobello Road
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 4pm

Blois found by Dante.
London found by Momonga.
Info posted elsewhere by sapagoo.

We've got macmonkey in London doing the pickup, which by all accounts may have been done by now! We'll hear soon enough.
Click to view Cineball's profile   22 posts since
Apr 9, 2008
2. Apr 22, 2008 10:59 PM in response to: mrjudkins
Re: New Artifact Location - London, England
Is this a guide to building an omphalos? That's what it appears to be. I can't wait for our Esperanto interpreters to get on this.
Click to view jasper's profile   79 posts since
Mar 12, 2008
3. Apr 24, 2008 6:28 PM in response to: Cineball
Re: New Artifact Location - London, England

The picture of the net looks like a spider web. The first sentence drives me crazy because it says the sculpture was aiming to communicate and not the sculptor. I checked the Esperanto, and that translation is accurate. Is an omphalos an inanimate object or is the sculpture actually capeable of forming intentions?

So, this is posted by Ariadne, but for discussion here, we have:

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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