In Xenophon's Anabasis,'Thalatta! Thalatta!' (The sea! The sea!') is the cry of ecstasy uttered by the 10,000 Greeks upon summitting Mount Theches and seeing the Black Sea. The army had just come from Cyrus the Young's failed march on the Persian Empire.
"Navel" in Greek. In Greek myth, the omphalos was the center of the world as determined by Zeus sending two birds to fly in separate directions until they met again. The word can also mean a place that feels like the center of the universe because of its power.
