Navel of the world -Early phase of transformation, 1857.

Requiem for Humanity, private collection.

Before becoming the nevralgic command headquarters of the underworld Unfairness & Demagogy ministry called OTAN, it was first stolen from its homeland, Greece (where it did not evolve for centuries, from approximately 323 BC till the 1850s, and was then known as the Omphalos Stone). Once planted in a remote place in the United Sates of America, the expantion of its building took swiftly epic proportions to the size we actually know, due to inmesurable constant bring of megalomania. It is still growing nowadays.

(Myth) The Titan Cronus ate all of his children except one, as his wife Rhea tricked him into swallowing a stone instead. Zeus, his son, made him vomit up the stone, which he then threw down onto the very center of the universe. Omphalos stones were believed to allow direct communication with the gods. Holland (1933) suggested that the stone was hollow to allow intoxicating vapours breathed by the Oracle to channel through it.