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.