Post #573628 by The Gnomon on Fri, Jan 28, 2011 10:52 AM

I come from a long line of gnomons dating back to a time before the word gnomon was invented. A gnomon is the index of a sundial, the stick in the ground. In ancient times the people who read the gnomons were also called gnomons themselves. Basically, a gnomon is an ancient astronomer, soothsayer, viseer, thaumaturge, alchemist, apothecary, and aficcionado of the unusual.