Gnorris Wang Wauk, New South Wales, Australia
By
firnsy on 01-Dec-15. Waypoint GA7815
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Moveable |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S32° 9.325' E152° 19.317' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 436062E 6442135N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 24 m |
| Local Government Area: | Mid-Coast |
/152.32195,-32.155417,14/400x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiY2F1Z2h0YXR3b3JrIiwiYSI6ImNqa2l4ZzNzMDE5bjgzdm1sZGpuODF1Mm0ifQ.q8YMzVyzDJJlJHHV8EMjwQ)
Description
Gnorris
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Gnorris is one of my entrants in the 2015-16 GeGnome ][ Electric Boogaloo game. During the game period (01-Dec-2015 through 31-Jan-2016), please observe the following rules and etiquette to ensure that Gnorris stays in the game:
Rules of the game
- Your GeGnome must be a genuine, bone fide garden gnome. It may be store bought or hand crafted.
- Caches for the competition must be published on 1 December 2015 Australian Eastern Daylight Time (Geocaching Australia Time).
- Geocaching Australia has the facility to automatically publish your GeGnome on 1 December 2015. Check the wiki for how to achieve this.
- The game administrators decision is final.
- You may find and move your own GeGnome during the game period.
- Caches must be found and hidden by the same geocacher (i.e. no mailing the GeGnome to another geocacher to hide).
- There is no limit to the number of times a geocacher can find / move the GeGnome provided there are at least two other finds / moves in between.
- If a geocacher moves your GeGnome overseas and it remains unfound overseas for 1 week or more, the GeGnome mover may move your GeGnome back to the country of origin without breaking the "2 moves" rule.
- There is no limit to the distance other geocachers can move the GeGnome.
Etiquette
- Avoid rehiding a GeGnome far from active geocachers territory as it basically exits the gnome from the race
- When rehiding a GeGnome get good co-ordinates. Seriously. Don't dump and run. Get co-ords as you would a permanent GeGnome.
- When making your log against a GeGnome include a good hint so the finder can identify whether it's been moved, muggled or just a bad GPS day.
- This is a challenge of moving GeGnomes along, not trying to make them impossible to find, so help you fellow players out by making the task enjoyable
Hints
vs lbh ner fghzcrq, purpx gur tnyyrel. |
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Decode |
Logs
On my way home from Violet Hill on Myall Lake I stopped in to a familiar Rest Area and soon had Gnorris in my hand, but it took a fair effort to extract the gnome.
Definitely seen better days, as part of his back has separated off, and definitely lost the bison tube.
This next weekend I hope to have some time to repair him before releasing back into the wild.
Meanwhile he will be in Tinonee.
Definitely seen better days, as part of his back has separated off, and definitely lost the bison tube.
This next weekend I hope to have some time to repair him before releasing back into the wild.
Meanwhile he will be in Tinonee.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Admin review only - movable seems to be still in location and ready to be found again...cache on.
My original plan was to take Gnorris up to Lismore and show my brother this movable GCA cache (he caches but I don't think he has a GCA account). However it looks like Gnorris has had better days, it looks like some white ants now live in him, kinda like the condo on top of his current home. So I snapped a photo and replaced as found. It looks like there was a bison attached at the bottom but this seems to have gone missing. TFTMC! 
NB Location unchanged.
NB Location unchanged.
Gnorris ended up spending a bit more time with us than we planned, and a fair chunk of that time was spent moving up and down the the Pacific Highway so it seems fitting that he gets to have a rest along that route. Have a rest, us the toilets then keep walking to find Gnorris' hidey hole.
Found this gnome on the way through Kurri Kurri. The kids were surprised at how big he is. Gnorris will spend a couple of days at our house while we find a place to rehide him.
Gnorris can socialise with our little Gnome family on the mean time.
Gnorris can socialise with our little Gnome family on the mean time.
I've moved this fellow to have a holiday in the forest
Rated: for Overall Experience
While we wait to move him on, Gnorris is in our front yard, where Gnomes want to be, anyway, he won't take up so much room on my bench.... If he's still there in a month we'll take him on a trip....
The team was out today on a little road caching trip to celebrate our 4000th GC find, so headed down the Putty Rd and into the Blue Mountains. We managed a handful of trigs as well as poising ourself at 3999 for the main event (in the rain it seems) tomorrow....
Samuel spotted Gnorris as we parked. I feared we'd look like cleptomaniacs knocking off garden gnomes when he went in for the grab! We did meet lucky1955 who popped out and chatted for a while, before we kept moving.... TFTG.... he has lost his bison tube, we'll endeavour to replace this and get him rehidden up north somewhere....
Samuel spotted Gnorris as we parked. I feared we'd look like cleptomaniacs knocking off garden gnomes when he went in for the grab! We did meet lucky1955 who popped out and chatted for a while, before we kept moving.... TFTG.... he has lost his bison tube, we'll endeavour to replace this and get him rehidden up north somewhere....
Rated: for Overall Experience
waking this fella up I have left him sleeping in my front garden too long. He can be reached without entering the property.
Well I came & got beaten – a DNF for me – as this is a large rock area & gps was saying at times it was in the middle off I extended my search to the sides & bushes. I believe it aren’t here anymore. 
Reading previous logs, this moveable may still be in location OR may have been found, removed and not relocated yet. We know moveables can sometimes be forgotten / missed / left in the bottom of a caching bag, so a check has been undertaken on this one.
An update will be posted within 28 days….
An update will be posted within 28 days….
Found when in attendance at the winery pop up event. collected to move along.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Spotted it at Tizzana with a group of other moveables today. I have met this fella before - way too heavy for me! TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found at the Pop Up Event at the Hawkesbury. Thanks for the moveable. Good luck where ever it ends up next. Thanks to those who brought it and thanks to those who take it on it's next part of it's journey
Regards
Regards
Rated: for Overall Experience
Moved to a secret location were the brotherhood of moveable gnomes are known to congregate.
Found this one on the table at the event for Australia Day for the moveables. Thanks for the moveable which was one of 101 that made their way to Ebenezer. Good luck on any further moves
The latest Geocaching Australia game runs from 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath.
A moving cache, by nature, may have been moved since you last determined its location. It may have been picked up but not yet rehidden so it's considered 'in-transit'. There is no foolproof method of determining where a cache is simply by the log types that have been placed against the cache.
The latest Geocaching Australia game runs from 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath.
A moving cache, by nature, may have been moved since you last determined its location. It may have been picked up but not yet rehidden so it's considered 'in-transit'. There is no foolproof method of determining where a cache is simply by the log types that have been placed against the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Headed up to Ebenezer with LuckyL10n to attend the Aussie Day event. 45 degree day made for a bit of a fun trip, however it was pleasant in the winery building. A good few hardy souls were in attendance as well as over 100 moveables. Some good conversation with cachers not met before and a good couple of hours was had by all. The trip home was a little different to what was expected but turned out ok....
Called into Tizzana Winery to buy some wine and saw the moveables and the list. The family wanted to continue on so said "Hi" to a few we'd previously met then headed on with some wine. Diolch for the moveable. I didn't pick up any.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Attended the 'Australia Day Moveable Event 2018' and came face to face with other like minded cachers, one being another lucky (luckyl10n) and 101 moveables in the area. Many thanks to the CO's who have published them over time and others who bought them together for the event.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found this one at the Australia Day Moveable Event 2018 event held at Tizzana Winery in Ebenezer. Another fantastic turnout at the event run for the current 2018/19 Journey or Destination game being run on Geocaching Australia which saw a total of 101 moveables come together. Thanks for sharing.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Don't look for it yet. It will be at Ebenezer on Australia Day at the event.
Picked up on the way past. Taken to the Blue Mountains.
Rated: for Overall Experience
dropped at home but already collected by another cacher
A return visit to Tizzana to collect the remaining movables left behind or re-hidden nearby from the great movable event on January 1st
Rated: for Overall Experience
Relogging this move after the original move was lost due to the server failure on 9 January...bringing back harmony to the map.
Back in play with some mates.
Back in play with some mates.
Headed up to attend the Meet the Moveables (NSW) event and this was one of the many many moveables in attendance. Great time was had by all and it was good to put a few faces to the names I've seen in cache logs over the years.
Thanks for sharing this one.... (apologies for the late log)
Thanks for sharing this one.... (apologies for the late log)
Found at the moveables event at Ebenezer. Thanks for the moveable it was found during the summer games
The latest Geocaching Australia game runs from 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath.
A moving cache, by nature, may have been moved since you last determined its location. It may have been picked up but not yet rehidden so it's considered 'in-transit'. There is no foolproof method of determining where a cache is simply by the log types that have been placed against the cache.
The latest Geocaching Australia game runs from 01-Dec-2018 00:00:00 to 31-Jan-2019 23:59:59 AEST
For each qualifying geocache that you hide or find during the game period you will be offered the opportunity to click on a ground tile and reveal what lies beneath.
A moving cache, by nature, may have been moved since you last determined its location. It may have been picked up but not yet rehidden so it's considered 'in-transit'. There is no foolproof method of determining where a cache is simply by the log types that have been placed against the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found this one at the Meet the Moveables (NSW Edition) event. Thanks for sharing.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found this one at the Meet the Moveables (NSW Edition) event held at Tizzana Winery in Ebenezer. A fantastic turnout at the event run for the current 2018/19 Journey or Destination game being run on Geocaching Australia which saw a total of 75 moveables come together. Thanks for sharing.
NOTE: Picked up this moveable at the end of the event and will move on shortly.
NOTE: Picked up this moveable at the end of the event and will move on shortly.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Now down at the Meet the Moveables event....NSW Edition
What a great way to start the new year with a meet the movables event that saw 75 moveable caches and 10 geocacher caches in attendance. All was laid out so one could walk around the tables to sign each and every log before a swap occured to send them away again in a new direction.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I was happy to have a visit from a pile of moveables accompanied by SDL before he takes them further north.
Thanks
Albida
Thanks
Albida
Found in the hands of Sol de Lune.
Heading North soon I was told.
TFTC !
Heading North soon I was told.
TFTC !
Rated: for Overall Experience
GCA 2,226. Found in the hands of Sol de Lune.
I hear these are heading north soon.
TFTC !!
I hear these are heading north soon.
TFTC !!
Rated: for Overall Experience
#GA3356 - 15:00; After a few days on the road with Sol de lune we have now completed our journey through the mid west of New South Wales and returned home to our final destination. This moveable was one of many awaiting our return and was spotted in the hands of Sdl as it tours the National Capital. TFTC firnsy
Rated: for Overall Experience
This big boy was left at my event, so grabbed him to move on shortly, no doubt to another event, this time in Sydney.
Found this one, and a pile of others, at the Journey or Destination event in Canberra
TFTC - another smiley, and another square I can choose in the game
TFTC - another smiley, and another square I can choose in the game
After a failed mission to join the crew doing the ‘BLACK OPs - Carpe Noctem’ (GC32WN6) cache this weekend due to being unable to get time off work (on Friday and Saturday) and other commitments arising, 
I did however sweet talk my way into having Sunday off. 
This then lead me to take a look around and see what was available within my free day to make it a day out. After taking a look around the GC and GCA caches, I found 2 events on the same day close to each other and I decided on attending them both. After this I took a look at what caches I could find along the way and made my trail to make it an enjoyable day out. Something I didn’t expect was, a FTF which was on cache GA13305. 
This added to the fun. I would like to thank all the CO’s of the caches I found and for the fun and enjoyment I had while finding them.
Today’s Totals: 44 Finds
2 Events
9 GC (GroundSpeak)
33 GCA
This was one of the 29 moveable caches I found and signed today. TFTC
I did however sweet talk my way into having Sunday off. This then lead me to take a look around and see what was available within my free day to make it a day out. After taking a look around the GC and GCA caches, I found 2 events on the same day close to each other and I decided on attending them both. After this I took a look at what caches I could find along the way and made my trail to make it an enjoyable day out. Something I didn’t expect was, a FTF which was on cache GA13305. This added to the fun. I would like to thank all the CO’s of the caches I found and for the fun and enjoyment I had while finding them. Today’s Totals: 44 Finds
2 Events
9 GC (GroundSpeak)
33 GCA
This was one of the 29 moveable caches I found and signed today. TFTC
I spent the morning in the company of some incedible cachers from Canberra and Temora at an Event organised by Sol de Lune to enlighten us on the new GCA Game. I for one understand the game better now so thanks to SDL and Black Bunny for enlightening us. The weather was hot and sunny so at times chairs were moved around to stay in the shade. Masses of Movables appeared and were eagerly found but not moved by all present.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Discovered this moveable at the Journey or Destination event held in Canberra today. Thanks for the cache
Rated: for Overall Experience
Discovered at the GA talk about the new GA game at John Knight Park, Belconnen
Rated: for Overall Experience
Playing Journey or Destination? Come and find out a bit more, and maybe grab a moveable or two at the same time.
Had the pleasure of meeting this cute little fellow at Meet the Moveables event at Brimbank Park.
Thanks for sending him out into the big wide world for our entertainment Firnsy
Thanks for sending him out into the big wide world for our entertainment Firnsy
Rated: for Overall Experience
Headed down to Melbourne for the 'Meet the Moveables' event at Brimbank Park. Lots of moveables in attendance and this was one of them. Managed to sign a lot of logs, along with all the other cachers doing the same thing. A few laughs and a good time was had by all.
A good day to be out and a great event. Also great to see so any older moveables. Thanks for this one, which is now with me in Canberra and will be moved on shortly.
A good day to be out and a great event. Also great to see so any older moveables. Thanks for this one, which is now with me in Canberra and will be moved on shortly.
Rated: for Overall Experience
So many moveable. I hate copy paste logs but today I'll will fall. I'll make a separate note on caches I do anything extra with
The migration has begun. Come and meet the moveables. The migration has begun. Come and meet the moveables. https://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga13115
A quick pickup of moveables today for a secret meeting to take place in just a little while. Your geocache would like to join the secret activities so it may not move for a little while but it will be safe and sound and will be moved along (and hopefully logged quite a bit) in the not too distant future.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for this geocache here today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks for this geocache here today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1
Rated: for Overall Experience
Passed on to Team Ladava in Victoria by baby&Mrs gopher.
Will place it in a new location soon
Thanks for the cache
Team Ladava
Will place it in a new location soon
Thanks for the cache
Team Ladava
Rated: for Overall Experience
Time to head to the eastern states. At Norseman and about to start the journey across the big plain.
Not at the posted co-ords as Gnorris is currently having some major surgery. Will be back out soon hopefully....
Not gone or missing. Gnorris had been damaged in transit and it was in Gnome hospital. He has now returned to the puplished coordinates waiting for a lift.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Decided to return home via Quairading (no traffic this way) so to pick this one up, after finding Trig in Bruce Rock.
Preparing for next adventure.
Preparing for next adventure.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found today at the Moveable and Mystery Madness event.
Thanks to all the cachers who gathered up all these moveables.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Attended the very enjoyable GCA Moveable & Mystery Madness event (GA10647) in Whiteman Park today with Chwiliwr and Gwawr. We found this cache with all the other moveable caches that were brought to the event by the various GCA cachers in attendence. There were also a couple found not actually at the event.
Thanks for the cache.
Thanks for the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Attended the very enjoyable GCA Moveable & Mystery Madness event (GA10647) in Whiteman Park today with Chwiliwr and Gwawr. We found this cache with all the other moveable caches that were brought to the event by the various GCA cachers in attendence. There were also a couple found not actually at the event.
Thanks for the cache.
Thanks for the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Attended the very enjoyable GCA Moveable & Mystery Madness event (GA10647) in Whiteman Park today with tbh and Gwawr. We found this cache with all the other moveable caches that were brought to the event by the various GCA cachers in attendence. There were also a couple found not actually at the event.
Thanks for the cache.
Thanks for the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Discovered 'Gnorris' at the Moveable & Mystery Madness Event held in Whiteman Park. The forecast was for rain but we were blessed with good weather for the day. A small but dedicated group of geocachers and a couple of new faces attended and exchanged stories of caches found and missed. Many thanks Firnsy for the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
NOT at above coordinates.
Awaiting "Moveable & Mystery Madness" event GA10647
Awaiting "Moveable & Mystery Madness" event GA10647
In my hands 
and happy to report is in good condition.
Thank you for the cache firnsy
According to Wikipedia...
A gnome / noʊm is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its characteristics have been reinterpreted to suit the needs of various story tellers, but it is typically said to be a small humanoid that lives underground.
The word comes from Renaissance Latin gnomus, which first appears in the Liber de Nymphis, Sylvanis, Pygmaeis, Salamandris, et Gigantibus etc. by Paracelsus, published posthumously in Nysa in 1566 (and again in the Johannes Huser edition of 1589–1591 from an autograph by Paracelsus).
The term may be an original invention of Paracelsus, possibly deriving the term from Latin gēnomos (itself representing a Greek γη-νομος, literally "earth-dweller"). In this case, the omission of the ē is, as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) calls it, a blunder. Paracelsus uses Gnomi as a synonym of Pygmæi and classifies them as earth elementals. He describes them as two spans high, very reluctant to interact with humans, and able to move through solid earth as easily as humans move through air.
The chthonic, or earth-dwelling, spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding mines and precious underground treasures, notably in the Germanic dwarves and the Greek Chalybes, Telchines or Dactyls.
The English word is attested from the early 18th century. Gnomes are used in Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock". The creatures from this mock-epic are small, celestial creatures which were prudish women in their past-lives, and now spend all of eternity looking out for prudish women (in parallel to the guardian angels in Catholic belief). Other uses of the term gnome remain obscure until the early 19th century, when it is taken up by authors of Romanticist collections of fairy tales and becomes mostly synonymous with the older word goblin.
Pope's stated source, the French satire Comte de Gabalis (1670), used the term gnomide to refer to female gnomes (often "gnomid" in English translations).
In 19th century fiction, the chthonic gnome became a sort of antithesis to the more airy or luminous fairy. Nathaniel Hawthorne in Twice-Told Tales (1837) contrasts the two in "Small enough to be king of the fairies, and ugly enough to be king of the gnomes" (cited after OED). Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow (1877), which has "let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine" (cited after OED).
One of the first movements in Mussorgsky's 1874 work Pictures at an Exhibition, named "Gnomus" (Latin for "The Gnome"), is written to sound as if a gnome is moving about, his movements constantly changing in speed.
Franz Hartmann in 1895 satirized materialism in an allegorical tale entitled Unter den Gnomen im Untersberg. The English translation appeared in 1896 as Among the Gnomes: An Occult Tale of Adventure in the Untersberg. In this story, the Gnomes are still clearly subterranean creatures, guarding treasures of gold within the Untersberg mountain.
As a figure of 19th century fairy tales, the term gnome became largely synonymous with other terms for "little people" by the 20th century, such as goblin, brownie, kobold, leprechaun, Heinzelmännchen and other instances of the "domestic spirit" type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground world.
The name gnome has been used in the Fantasy genre, typically in a cunning role, e.g. as an inventor.
In L. Frank Baum's Oz series, the Nomes (so spelled), especially their king, are the chief adversaries of the Oz people. They are ugly, hot-tempered, immortal, round-bodied with spindly legs and arms, have long beards and wild hair, live underground, and are the militant protectors/ hoarders of jewels and precious metals; Baum does not depict any female gnomes. Ruth Plumly Thompson, who continued the series after Baum's death, reverted to the traditional spelling.
In C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, gnomes, or "Earthmen" as they are sometimes called, live in the Underland, a series of subterranean caverns. Unlike the traditional, more humanlike gnomes, they can have a wide variety of physical features and skin colours. They are used as slaves by the Lady of the Green Kirtle.
J. R. R. Tolkien, in the legendarium surrounding his Elves, uses "Gnomes" as the initial and later dropped name of the Noldor, the most gifted and technologically minded of his elvish races, in conscious exploitation of the similarity with the word gnomic. Gnome is thus Tolkien's English loan-translation of the Quenya word Noldo (plural Noldor), "those with knowledge". Tolkien's "Gnomes" are generally tall, beautiful, dark-haired, light-skinned, immortal, and typically wise but suffer from pride, tend towards violence, and have an overweening love of the works of their own hands, particularly gemstones. Many of them live in cities below ground (Nargothrond) or in secluded mountain fortresses (Gondolin). He uses "Gnomes" to refer to both males and females. In The Father Christmas Letters, which Tolkien wrote for his children, Red Gnomes are presented as helpful creatures who come from Norway to the North Pole to assist Father Christmas and his Elves in fighting the wicked Goblins.
The Dutch books Gnomes and The Secret Book of Gnomes, written by Wil Huygen, deal with gnomes living together in harmony. These same books are the basis for a made-for-TV animated film and the Spanish-animated series The World of David the Gnome (as well as the spin-off Wisdom of the Gnomes).
In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, gnomes are pests that inhabit the gardens of witches and wizards. They are small creatures with heads that look like potatoes on small stubby bodies. Gnomes are generally considered harmless but mischievous and may bite with sharp teeth. In the books it is stated that the Weasleys are lenient to gnomes, and tolerate their presence, preferring to throw them out of the garden, rather than more extreme measures.
In Terry Brooks' Shannara Series gnomes are an offshoot race created after the Great Wars. There are several distinctive classes of gnomes. Gnomes are the smallest race. In The Sword of Shannara they are considered to be tribal and warlike, the one race that can be the most easily subverted to an evil cause. This is evidenced by their allegiance to the Warlock Lord in The Sword of Shannara and to the Mord Wraiths in The Wishsong of Shannara.
In the Warcraft franchise, particularly as featured in the MMORPG World of Warcraft, gnomes are a race of beings separate from but allied to dwarves and humans, with whom they share the lands of the Eastern Kingdoms. Crafty, intelligent, and smaller than their dwarven brethren, gnomes are one of two races in Azeroth regarded as technologically savvy. It is suggested in lore that the gnomes originally were mechanical creations that at some point became organic lifeforms. In World of Warcraft, gnomes are an exile race, having irradiated their home city of Gnomeregan in an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to drive out marauding foes.
BB's The Little Grey Men (1942) is a story of the last gnomes in England, little wild men who live by hunting and fishing.
After World War II (with early references, in ironic use, from the late 1930s) the diminutive figurines introduced as lawn ornaments during the 19th century came to be known as garden gnomes. The image of the gnome changed further during the 1960s to 1970s, when the first plastic garden gnomes were manufactured. These gnomes followed the style of the 1937 depiction of the seven dwarves in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Disney. This "Disneyfied" image of the gnome was built upon by the illustrated children's book classic The Secret Book of Gnomes (1976), in the original Dutch Leven en werken van de Kabouter. Garden gnomes share a resemblance to the Scandinavian tomte and nisse, and the Swedish term "tomte" can be translated as "gnome" in English.
and happy to report is in good condition.Thank you for the cache firnsy
According to Wikipedia...
A gnome / noʊm is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its characteristics have been reinterpreted to suit the needs of various story tellers, but it is typically said to be a small humanoid that lives underground.
The word comes from Renaissance Latin gnomus, which first appears in the Liber de Nymphis, Sylvanis, Pygmaeis, Salamandris, et Gigantibus etc. by Paracelsus, published posthumously in Nysa in 1566 (and again in the Johannes Huser edition of 1589–1591 from an autograph by Paracelsus).
The term may be an original invention of Paracelsus, possibly deriving the term from Latin gēnomos (itself representing a Greek γη-νομος, literally "earth-dweller"). In this case, the omission of the ē is, as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) calls it, a blunder. Paracelsus uses Gnomi as a synonym of Pygmæi and classifies them as earth elementals. He describes them as two spans high, very reluctant to interact with humans, and able to move through solid earth as easily as humans move through air.
The chthonic, or earth-dwelling, spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding mines and precious underground treasures, notably in the Germanic dwarves and the Greek Chalybes, Telchines or Dactyls.
The English word is attested from the early 18th century. Gnomes are used in Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock". The creatures from this mock-epic are small, celestial creatures which were prudish women in their past-lives, and now spend all of eternity looking out for prudish women (in parallel to the guardian angels in Catholic belief). Other uses of the term gnome remain obscure until the early 19th century, when it is taken up by authors of Romanticist collections of fairy tales and becomes mostly synonymous with the older word goblin.
Pope's stated source, the French satire Comte de Gabalis (1670), used the term gnomide to refer to female gnomes (often "gnomid" in English translations).
In 19th century fiction, the chthonic gnome became a sort of antithesis to the more airy or luminous fairy. Nathaniel Hawthorne in Twice-Told Tales (1837) contrasts the two in "Small enough to be king of the fairies, and ugly enough to be king of the gnomes" (cited after OED). Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow (1877), which has "let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine" (cited after OED).
One of the first movements in Mussorgsky's 1874 work Pictures at an Exhibition, named "Gnomus" (Latin for "The Gnome"), is written to sound as if a gnome is moving about, his movements constantly changing in speed.
Franz Hartmann in 1895 satirized materialism in an allegorical tale entitled Unter den Gnomen im Untersberg. The English translation appeared in 1896 as Among the Gnomes: An Occult Tale of Adventure in the Untersberg. In this story, the Gnomes are still clearly subterranean creatures, guarding treasures of gold within the Untersberg mountain.
As a figure of 19th century fairy tales, the term gnome became largely synonymous with other terms for "little people" by the 20th century, such as goblin, brownie, kobold, leprechaun, Heinzelmännchen and other instances of the "domestic spirit" type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground world.
The name gnome has been used in the Fantasy genre, typically in a cunning role, e.g. as an inventor.
In L. Frank Baum's Oz series, the Nomes (so spelled), especially their king, are the chief adversaries of the Oz people. They are ugly, hot-tempered, immortal, round-bodied with spindly legs and arms, have long beards and wild hair, live underground, and are the militant protectors/ hoarders of jewels and precious metals; Baum does not depict any female gnomes. Ruth Plumly Thompson, who continued the series after Baum's death, reverted to the traditional spelling.
In C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, gnomes, or "Earthmen" as they are sometimes called, live in the Underland, a series of subterranean caverns. Unlike the traditional, more humanlike gnomes, they can have a wide variety of physical features and skin colours. They are used as slaves by the Lady of the Green Kirtle.
J. R. R. Tolkien, in the legendarium surrounding his Elves, uses "Gnomes" as the initial and later dropped name of the Noldor, the most gifted and technologically minded of his elvish races, in conscious exploitation of the similarity with the word gnomic. Gnome is thus Tolkien's English loan-translation of the Quenya word Noldo (plural Noldor), "those with knowledge". Tolkien's "Gnomes" are generally tall, beautiful, dark-haired, light-skinned, immortal, and typically wise but suffer from pride, tend towards violence, and have an overweening love of the works of their own hands, particularly gemstones. Many of them live in cities below ground (Nargothrond) or in secluded mountain fortresses (Gondolin). He uses "Gnomes" to refer to both males and females. In The Father Christmas Letters, which Tolkien wrote for his children, Red Gnomes are presented as helpful creatures who come from Norway to the North Pole to assist Father Christmas and his Elves in fighting the wicked Goblins.
The Dutch books Gnomes and The Secret Book of Gnomes, written by Wil Huygen, deal with gnomes living together in harmony. These same books are the basis for a made-for-TV animated film and the Spanish-animated series The World of David the Gnome (as well as the spin-off Wisdom of the Gnomes).
In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, gnomes are pests that inhabit the gardens of witches and wizards. They are small creatures with heads that look like potatoes on small stubby bodies. Gnomes are generally considered harmless but mischievous and may bite with sharp teeth. In the books it is stated that the Weasleys are lenient to gnomes, and tolerate their presence, preferring to throw them out of the garden, rather than more extreme measures.
In Terry Brooks' Shannara Series gnomes are an offshoot race created after the Great Wars. There are several distinctive classes of gnomes. Gnomes are the smallest race. In The Sword of Shannara they are considered to be tribal and warlike, the one race that can be the most easily subverted to an evil cause. This is evidenced by their allegiance to the Warlock Lord in The Sword of Shannara and to the Mord Wraiths in The Wishsong of Shannara.
In the Warcraft franchise, particularly as featured in the MMORPG World of Warcraft, gnomes are a race of beings separate from but allied to dwarves and humans, with whom they share the lands of the Eastern Kingdoms. Crafty, intelligent, and smaller than their dwarven brethren, gnomes are one of two races in Azeroth regarded as technologically savvy. It is suggested in lore that the gnomes originally were mechanical creations that at some point became organic lifeforms. In World of Warcraft, gnomes are an exile race, having irradiated their home city of Gnomeregan in an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to drive out marauding foes.
BB's The Little Grey Men (1942) is a story of the last gnomes in England, little wild men who live by hunting and fishing.
After World War II (with early references, in ironic use, from the late 1930s) the diminutive figurines introduced as lawn ornaments during the 19th century came to be known as garden gnomes. The image of the gnome changed further during the 1960s to 1970s, when the first plastic garden gnomes were manufactured. These gnomes followed the style of the 1937 depiction of the seven dwarves in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Disney. This "Disneyfied" image of the gnome was built upon by the illustrated children's book classic The Secret Book of Gnomes (1976), in the original Dutch Leven en werken van de Kabouter. Garden gnomes share a resemblance to the Scandinavian tomte and nisse, and the Swedish term "tomte" can be translated as "gnome" in English.
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ready for an event But is NOT at the coordinates
Had a long drive and catch up with his friends in car
In the Karri forest of the SW.
He,s a big heavy bugger don't know how I missed him last time I looked.
He,s a big heavy bugger don't know how I missed him last time I looked.
