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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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i68 Omphalos and Pillar<br />

have been worshipped <strong>in</strong> aniconic form at the mother-town Megara\<br />

Drexler may be right or wrong'^; but <strong>in</strong> any case the Byzant<strong>in</strong>e<br />

pillar is of <strong>in</strong>terest, because it exhibits the omphalos, earth's centre,<br />

<strong>in</strong> comb<strong>in</strong>ation with the Agyieus, heaven's prop^.<br />

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