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Say Gnome More
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no more must be told.
There was a secret
- H.P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu
he bestowed,
through initiation,
that mysterious blended knowledge
- Judith Page & Judith Biles
Invoking the Egyptian Gods (“Khonsu ‘Wanderer’”)
of a mystery cult,
private rites with a chthonic aspect
connected to hero cult
and exclusive to
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele
Serpent-worshipping dark-complexioned dwarfs.
- L. Austine Waddell
The Phoenician Origin of Britons Scots
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Louis squatted back on his haunches, balanced over his heels. Focused on contemplation, he mindlessly aped the posture of the gnome elder next to him. The elder was tracing ochre lines drawn on the outward sloping rock face, and speaking in long, drawn-out, overly loud monosyllables: the universal sign of someone trying to overcome a language barrier. Louis felt like a child next to a man scarcely two-thirds his height. Maybe it was the tropic heat or just Louis’s fatigue (or the strange mushroom-cake the gnome woman had given him to eat, and/or the honey liquor that reminded him of VodouBrew™), but the elder’s words began to blur and run together and, after a while, Louis just heard the same words repeating in endless permutations.
Like honey-bees drawing a treasure map for the hive-family, the ochre lines danced their tale to tell, undulating and shimmying to the syncopated rhythm of the gnome elder’s bobbing, red, conical cap.
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gnomic (adj.)
"full of instructive sayings," 1815, from French gnomique (18c.)
and directly from Late Latin gnomicus "concerned with maxims, didactic,"
from Greek gnomikos, from gnome "thought, opinion, maxim, intelligence,"
from root of gignoskein "to come to know" (see gnostic).
English gnome meant "short, pithy statement of general truth"
- www.etymonline.com/?search=gnomic
describes something spoken or written
that is short,
mysterious,
and not easily understood,
but often seems wise
- www.dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/gnomic
The name ‘gnome’ is said to come from the Latin word ‘gnomus’
which is thought to possibly come from the Greek word ‘gnosis’
meaning “knowledge” (i.e. of hidden treasures),
- www.justsaygnome.net/general-gnome-and-garden-gnome-information
There is a theory that their appearance,
little red pointy hats running through the forest,
can be attributed to hallucinations from eating mushrooms.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabouter
The Smurfs are famous for their white Phrygian caps.
Their leader, Papa Smurf, wears a red one.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap
Once the initiation is over
the Hogon adopts a red cap
and wears an armband inlaid with a pearl
– the symbol of his role.
His own wife (or one of them,
the Dogon do occasionally practice polygamy)
can then return to him but she must leave
once night comes to the village.
This is as the Dogon believe that
while the Hogon sleeps
he is visited by a sacred snake
who gives him wisdom
and washes him as he sleeps.
- www.kuriositas.com/2010/08/in-land-of-dogon.html
The caps of fairies and magicians are well-nigh always red.
- William Butler Yeats
Irish Fairy & Folk Tales
There was no agreement on how druids dressed,
but in some cases they wore what we would call a dunce’s cap.
- Gordon Campbell
The Hermit in the Garden:
From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome
“the priestly cap of the Magi.”
this is a conical hat with a neck-flap
which was a distinctive headgear of kings
and priests in ancient Persia.
It was passed on from Persia to the Arabs
and perpetuated among the magicians of West Africa.
It reappears in America
as a crown worn by the black-bearded Quetzcuotl.
Its shape is not its only distinctive feature.
It was the representation of the visible heaven,
and so was painted to represent stars.
Leo Wiener has traced the Arabic name
for this starred hat
through the Mande language,
and the same name for the hat is found in Mexico.
Arabic: qu-bil-a; Mande: ko-fil-a; in Mexico: co-pill-i).
All are pronounced roughly the same,
the same word in fact following the phonological rules
of transformation in its passage through the three language areas.
Standing by itself, this could be a simple coincidence.
The details of the cap, however, seem conclusive.
Clavigero, in The History of Mexico, describes the hat.
“The crown,” he says,
“which was called by the Mexicans copilli,
was a sort of small mitre,
the forepart of which was raised up and terminated in a point,
and the part behind was lowered down and hung over the neck.”
“And the copilli,” says E. Seler in the Codex Borgia,
“was a headdress made of an ocelot skin,
so as to represent a lot of dots,
that is, the stars of the magician’s cap.”
That this kingly and priestly cap of the Magi,
with its conical shape and star decoration,
should also have kept almost the same name
which was current for it among the Mandingo,
strongly suggests that the cap represented
the influence of the fourteenth-century African visitors.
- Ivan Van Sertima
They Came Before Columbus
In Sanskrit, skull cups are known as Kapala
(hence “cap” and “cup”),
and they are generally formed
from the oval section of the upper cranium.
- Philip Gardiner
Secret Societies
Padma then went on to seek the secret of longevity
and was directed to Kungamo, who dwelt in the palace of the skulls.
Kungamo turned Padma into a syllable,
like Jesus as the word, and swallowed him.
Inside the stomach he found the secrets
he was searching for.
Padma is often seen holding a cup
filled with the divine liquor
which he offers to his disciples
- saying “drink of this to attain liberation.”
Padma then is linked to the Naga serpent cult,
to healing,
to the Elixir via the palace of
- Philip Gardiner
Secret Societies
Serpent-worshipping dark-complexioned dwarfs
- Lawrence Austine Waddell
The Phoenician Origin of Britons Scots & Anglo-Saxons
What was the drink of the initiates?
- High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs (1978)
Only your friend know your secrets
So only he could reveal it
- Bob Marley
Who The Cap Fit
Plato, who was initiated, never revealed the secrets of Eleusis.
But late in life, setting forth laws that might govern an ideal city-state,
he discusses a hypothetical drug to induce sheer terror in a young man
as a test of his mettle and a means of developing courage.
- High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs (1978)
They live
in an underground kingdom
called Naga-loka, or Patala-loka,
which is filled with resplendent palaces,
beautifully ornamented with precious gems.
- www.britannica.com/Ebchecked/topic/401527/naga
“This subterranean realm had somewhat the character of a mine
with the water welling upwards from the unplumbed depths below.
It was a mine of hidden treasure, one form of which was gold.
But first of all the treasures was water
. . . Here the . . . Anunnaki were
portrayed as the watchers over the water of life
and the protectors of the hidden treasures underground” (Massey 1907).
What he is describing, of course, is the collective unconsciousness,
and the treasures of spirit and soul to be found there.
- Robert B. Clarke
An Order Outside Time: A Jungian View of the Higher Self from Egypt to Christ
They are also associated with waters
– rivers, lakes, seas, and wells –
and are generally regarded as guardians of treasures.
- www.britannica.com/Ebchecked/topic/401527/naga
A conduit of the spirit.
(2) The nagual is a non-entity.
There’s a perennial force
that exists in the universe, like gravity.
It’s not a psychological state.
It’s a confluence of forces …
it is felt
- www.incaglossary.org/nextra.html
some ineffable source
that cannot be discussed.
- www.incaglossary.org/nextra.html
everyone of us is
but a reflection of that
indescribable unknown filled with order;
the nagual of every one of us is
but a reflection of that
indescribable void
that contains everything.
- www.incaglossary.org/nextra.html
In essence, what we really have here is
the Temple of Wisdom
being built by the serpent,
and that serpent is none other than that
of, or similar to,
the internal kundalini,
later to be developed into the Kabbalah.
- Philip Gardiner
Secret Societies
Harry: I’ve had a team working on this over and over the past few weeks,
and what we’ve come up with can be reduced
to two fundamental concepts...
one... People are not wearing enough hats...
two... Matter is energy;
in the universe there are many energy fields
which we cannot normally perceive.
Some energies have a spiritual source
which act upon a person’s soul.
However, this soul does not exist ab initio,
as orthodox Christianity teaches;
it has to be brought into existence
by a process of guided self-observation.
However, this is rarely achieved
owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted
from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
Max: What was that about hats again?
- Monty Python
The Meaning of Life
I know its strange
- TV on the Radio
Wolf Like Me
It’s a most peculiar phenomenon,
and understanding it is one of the reasons why
I have written this book.
- Gordon Campbell
The Hermit in the Garden
“Hats?” said Will.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
hat (n.)
Old English hæt “hat, head covering”
variously glossing Latin pileus, galerus, mitra, tiara),
from Proto-Germanic *hattuz “hood, cowl”
(cognates: Frisian hat, Old Norse hattr, höttr “a hood or cowl”),
from PIE root *kadh- “cover, protect”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hat
cha·peau (shă-pō) n.,
pl, -peaux (-pōz’) or -peaus (-pōz). a hat.
[Fr.< Ofr. chapel< Med. Lat. capellus< LLat. cappa.
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
apex (n.)
c. 1600, from Latin apex “summit, peak, tip top, extreme end;”
probably related to apere
“to fasten, fix,” hence “the tip of anything”
(one of the meanings in Latin was
“small rod at the top of the flamen’s cap),
from PIE *ap- “to take, reach.”
- www.etymonline/?search=apex
a red cap,
called a cohullun druith,
- William Butler Yeats
Irish Fairy & Folk Tales
originating in the miters crowning
the mother-goddess, Cybele,
and Dagon, the fishheaded father
- Jacob Khan
Underwater
If this is stolen,
they cannot again go down under the waves.
- William Butler Yeats
Irish Fairy & Folk Tales
“Now, do you see, Jack,” said the Merrow:
“just put this hat on your head, and mind
to keep your eyes wide open.
Take hold of my tail, and follow after me,
and you’ll see what you’ll see.”
- William Butler Yeats
Irish Fairy & Folk Tales
And Will was back
in his bed,
falling into sleep
with the one
ominous word
ringing in his head
- Susan Cooper
The Dark is Rising
the Lost Word,
- Albert G. Mackey
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
the Lost Word,
- Albert G. Mackey
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
the Lost Word,
and the search for it.
Very appropriately may this symbol terminate our investigations,
since it includes within
its comprehensive scope
all the others,
being itself
the very essence of the science
- Albert G. Mackey
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
transformation was finally at hand.
When the Lost Word is written on the mind of man,
he is then ready to receive unimaginable power.
Such was the ancient promise of apotheosis.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
according to tradition,
a great king of primordial times,
who offered the gifts of civilization
to those who were willing to receive them
- Graham Hancock
Magicians of the Gods
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The gnome elder took Louis’ hand and placed it palm down in a large stone mortar-bowl filled with a thick red-ochre paste. The compound squished between Louis’ fingers. The wizened elder pulled Louis’ hand from the bowl and wiped the excess ochre off with a large leaf. A small, gnarled finger pointed to bare spot, high up on the otherwise fully decorated face of the rock wall. Louis cocked his head at a slight angle, focusing his shifting awareness, as he tried to figure out the elder’s instructions. The gnome held his own hand up – palm out, fingers up –, and mimed pressing it against the wall. The gnome’s hand fit exactly over an older ochre-stain handprint. Louis noticed there were many handprints in and around the painted murals and pictoglyphs. Realization dawned and Louis nodded his understanding as he placed his hand firmly against the bare spot on the rock.
Louis stepped back to further examine the rock art, with which he was now connected. He stared at his red stained hand and back at his print on the wall. He pondered the big picture. What does it all mean?
Unexpectedly, the little man leaped up and mashed the bowl of paste onto the dome of Louis’ head like a hat. The elder howled with hysterical laughter. Louis wiped the dripping red ochre from his eyes as the elder wiped his tears away. Louis stared silently at the elder’s crescent moon grin for a few moment before his own chuckling bubbled up irresistibly.
“Ha ha ha ha!”
Life, she is funny, non?
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Why do I do what I do?
- Kongos
I’m Only Joking
Only your friend know your secrets
So only he could reveal
it
And
who the cap fit,
let them wear it!
- Bob Marley
Who The Cap Fit
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