Navel

• navel: the umbilicus (commonly called the navel, or belly button, or tummy button), is essentially a scar caused at birth by the removal of the umbilical cord from a newborn baby
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• But with a rush out of his navel → during enlightenment, a reed grew out of Buddha’s navel, or according to other sources rays of light emanated from it → the point on the Earth where his enlightenment took place, in Buddhagaya (or Bodhgaya), is known as the Navel of the Earth

• navel → cf. Ulysses 038.11 ff: "A misbirth with a trailing navelcord..." and numerous references to the omphalos or navel of the Earth (007.31)

• Ogygia, where is the navel of the sea: Homer, Odyssey 1:50 → Calypso's isle Ogygia was identified with Ireland by some scholars