omphalos

noun5

1. •
   The navel.
2. •
   A raised central point; a boss.
3. •
   The center or hub.

   • —Rather bleak in wintertime, I should say. Martello you call it? —Billy Pitt had them built, Buck Mulligan said, when the French were on the sea. But ours is the omphalos. — 1922
4. •
   An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.
5. •
   The theological proposition that the world was created with certain indicia of a history which had not actually occurred (such as the humans who had never been connected to umbilical cords being created with navels).