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Gnomosaurus: Gnomes in the time of the terrible lizards

One of the main things people who criticise my gnomological theories try to claim is that they're human-centric. It's been claimed that I'm trying to say that gnomes were created by humans inadvertantly, as if we manifested a mass hallucination. This is a misrepresentation of my ideas, plain and simple.

Gnomes have clearly been shaped by human beings to an extent, as evidenced by their appearance. I believe this is true, but nowhere have I said that humans created gnomes or that they need us in order to exist.

Let's think back to the time of the dinosaurs.

A time before anything resembling a human walked the Earth. Did gnomes exist in this time? Of course they did. All of the things a gnome is are things it was capable of being during the millions of years the dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Caretaker, observer of nature, keeper of the dark and wild places, and so on.

Now of course, Gnomes would look very different back then, just as our own human ancestors were different to us. We weren't there to shape their appearance into it's modern, recogniseable form.

Gnomes look as they do in the current era for a number of reasons ranging from the socio-historic to the psychic. The predominant reason is because humans are the dominant species on the planet and we have expectations of what a gnome is. We, as a collective, passively radiate an idea of what a gnome looks like, informed by folklore and culture.

When a gnome is incorporeal and wishes to take form, it takes the gnome-form, the genomomorph. It doesn't know what the gnome-form looks like before it does this. When it's incorporeal, it doesn't think in terms shapes and colours, it has no concept of physicality. It's just a sapient thought-form, it thinks in abstracts and emotions. But it can grasp onto the concept of gnomishness and ends up filling the psychic mold regarding gnome-form. In this era that means small people with prodigious beards in pointy red hats.

What would it mean in the time of the dinosaurs? I admit I'm no paleontologist, so I cannot say whether dinosaurs had a strong cultural concept of what a gnome was. Let's assume that they didn't. So let us think more simply and go back to the cornerstones of gnomishness.

In the time of the dinosaurs, a gnome would not be known as a gnome. But it would still be an earth-spirit driven by curiosity, respect, and ingeniousness whose goal is to caretake and cultivate. This is what would inform gnome-form in a time before the word 'gnome' even existed.

So what shape would this gnome-form take? It's probably very flexible. Like in our time, it would still choose to be small in form so as to not overlook the smaller parts of the world and would be dextrous in order to make good use of it's ingenuity. Unlike in our time, there is no single, worldwide dominant species who can generate a psychic field to influence non-corporeal beings' shapes.

However, it is the time of the dinosaurs so it is likely that if dinosaurs could form a collective psychic field (not being a paleontologist, I again could not say if they can do this), gnomes would've simply ended up taking a broadly sauroid form, so long as it was small and dextrous.

As to their behaviour, what would they do in this time? What does the concept of gnomishness look like in the time of the dinosaurs?

There are no mines for them to operate or gardens to cultivate, but they are still able to study and observe the wildness of the world and see all that happens out in the darkest of places across the land. They would still find respite beneath a mushroom on a rainy day or roam a tall, overgrown forest or behold the majesty of a mountain on a misty morning. Their inherent gnomishness would still be obvious if we were to behold a dinosaur-era gnome.

I have a theory that gnomes believe it is not their place to rule the world or govern it's direction. They are more than capable of overtaking humans technologically. However, that's simply not a part of gnomishness. They explore and maintain and observe. I think that's down to a matter of respect, the cornerstone of gnomeic thought, once again. Thus, in the time of the dinosaurs, they would not push beyond what the current stewars of the Earth, the terrible lizards, were capable of doing.

But I do think they were there in those times, in other forms, doing as they have always done and will do. They were here before us and though we have shaped what a gnome looks like and some of the superficial aspects of what they do, we have, by no means, created gnomes.

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What if I told you atoms were gnomes? That their smallness didn't have a set limit and that the universe was held together by countless gnomes holding hands in a pan-cosmic daisy chain which encompassed all of creation?

We don't yet know this to be true, but it could be.

Gnomes are caretakers, of gardens or woodlands or homes or mines, but not just of these things. There are places that need care more than others, but does the universe itself require care, attention and upkeep? If so, there may be gnomeish involvement. It's the stellar handymen theory.

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Often, peoples' primary emotional response when encountering a gnome is fear. This is wholly fair.

When encountering something which is new, unknown and shows every sign of sapient intelligence, it's entirely reasonable that a person's response would be shock, horror even.

And I won't say that gnomes are more scared of you than you are of them, because they're not. To gnomes, humans do not represent the unknown, they are, in fact, a very known quantity.

I won't tell people not to be scared of gnomes but I will always say to be respectful. As I have said many times, the foundational ideology of most gnomeic culture is respect.

Stay safe out there, my friends!

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Incredible illustration, it oozes charm.

Rien Poortvliet

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A deal is moments from being struck!

Illustration by Henrik Larsen, (1860 - 1933)

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This poor old gnome's discovered one of the drawbacks with being one with nature!

Source details and larger version.

Vintage elves and gnomes I’ve encountered in my esoteric research.

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An absolutely delightful little cryptid.

Cryptid of the Day: Tizzie-Whizie

Description: A Tizzie-Whizie is a half hedgehog, half squirrel, and half bee creature seen by a boatsman around 1900 in England. The boatsman then shared his tale with the people of the Stag’s Head Hotel. His grandson found a similar creature and was able to capture it and photograph it before it ran away, never to be seen again.

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A bit of a funny one for this festive season!

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There's a whole world going on right underneath our feet!

Marin Majić (German, 1979) - Under the Radar (2023)

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A fine fellow of a gnome and also a bit of levity!

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Looks like a grand old race!

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I mentioned in a recent post how I believe gnomes utilise mushrooms as homes and this grand meme helps highlight my supposition. I believe gnomes utilise mushrooms to create temporary or short-term tents when travelling between more fixed abodes.

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Now this is a turn up! I suppose this is a UFO/UAP because of the haziness of the image, but it certainly seems like another gnome-sighting!

Gnomes have a certain gregarious, friendly image in media surrounding them but for those who are unprepared for an encounter, gnome-spotting can be a mystifying and even frightening experience. Please be wary, folks.

#gnomes #gnome posting #gnomeposting #gnomology #UFO #UAP #It's certainly a gnome-shaped phenomena #and honestly what is a gnome if not just a gnome-shaped phenomena #I feel like I barely have to use the term goblin universe at this point #but gnomes really are just gnome-shaped holes in our reality #the bright green

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I'm certainly getting closer to a festive mood as we get more into Winter!

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Majestic steeds for a gnomish traveller.

hear me out

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I always love seeing mushrooms in the wild because it means the area is likely good for gnomes.

i've often wondered about the various ways a gnome might use a mushroom as a home and a solution I keep coming back to is that they utilise the mushroom as the support to make a tent like structure in which they can dwell temporarily.

I think a gnome, with their trademark practical wisdom, would find sturdier structures to use as a permanent home, which likely discounts a great deal of fungi. But as a temporary residence on a gnome's long travels (perhaps even life-long), a mushroom would make for a fine abode.

Some mushrooms I found

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