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Gnostrat is a portmanteau name, signifying three facts about myself: I know a thing or two about the Nostratic hypothesis in linguistics; I hold Gnostic religious views; and I edit articles about small mammals.

I live mostly in Derby, England, and have been a Gnostic Christian by conviction ever since I read the debates between Simon Peter and Simon Magus in the Clementine literature and realised that Simon Magus got it right. No, I'm not a member of any secret societies. I'm a loner like many of my predecessors.

I'm also a sometime student of the biblical scholar Margaret Barker whose 'radically conservative' reinterpretation of Christian origins I broadly support. I have an abiding passion for comparative mythology and comparative religion, and my own spiritual odyssey through Hinduism, Goddess feminism, Wicca, Odinism, the Elim Pentecostal Church, Christian Identity and post-evangelicalism (in roughly that order of succession) has led me to develop a generally positive interfaith outlook along with a particular fascination for unconventional religious movements and heterodox theologies.

Other interests include radical and fringe politics (particularly concepts with some imaginative power, like anarchism and third positionism, that refuse to fit the hackneyed old 'left' versus 'right' clichés); and anything connected in any way to Modern Human Origins research, including archaeology, paleoanthropology, archaeogenetics and comparative linguistics (especially the long-range hypotheses which connect language families that aren't generally supposed to be related).

I also keep a keen eye on developments in zoological, botanical, fungal and microbial taxonomy, though it's more of a hobby than a calling.

My editing policy

I tend to be a conservative influence in articles, favouring orderly accretion and maintaining a stable consensus text. Wherever possible, respect the contributions of previous editors by writing 'around' them and not 'over' them.

What I've done for Wikipedia

Pages I've worked on

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Some more or less substantial edits to the following articles (both logged-in and anonymous). Actually, a few of them somewhat less than substantial. It's a start.

Ethnology & linguistics

Australoid raceBorean languagesChukotko-Kamchatkan languagesChukotko-Kamchatkan–Amuric languagesDeneEastern Hunter-GathererEskimo-Aleut languagesIndigenous languages of the AmericasIndo-European languagesItelmensLight skinNorthwest Caucasian languagesNostratic languagesProto-Pontic languageThailandUralo-Siberian languages

Literature & performing arts

Doctor Who (2008–2010 specials)D. H. LawrenceBillie PiperStanley RoadRose Tyler

Natural history & taxonomy

AfroinsectiphiliaAfrosoricidaAnimalArchaeaAusktribosphenidaeAustralosphenidaBiological classificationChoanoflagellateChoanozoaChytridiomycotaConodontCryptic species complexDeuterostomeDicyemidaDinosaurDivision (biology)Domain (biology)EocyathispongiaFamily (biology)FerungulataFilastereaFilozoa† • FishHolozoaInsectivoraKingdom (biology)LanceletLegion (biology)† • LeptocardiiLinnaean taxonomyList of chordate ordersMammalMammal classificationMesomycetozoeaMetatheriaMonotremeMorganucodonNomenclature CodesNucleariidOpisthokontOrder (biology)OrnithorhynchidaeOrthonectidaPaenungulataPederpesPhoronidPhylogenetic nomenclaturePhylumPrototheriaRhizodontSpeciesSynapsidSystematicsTaxonomic rankTaxonomyTetrapodTherapsidaTribe (biology)TriconodontaTunicate

Occult, religion & politics (Well, do you know the difference?)

Anarchism and nationalismAriosophyArmanen-OrdenArmanen runesMikhail BakuninBashanAnton DrexlerEsoteric NazismEsotericism in Germany and AustriaLibrary of AlexandriaLudwig FahrenkrogGerman mysticismGermanenordenGermanische Glaubens-GemeinschaftRudolf John GorslebenAndré GorzRudolf HessRichard Hunt (editor)IndraJörg Lanz von LiebenfelsGuido von ListMandaeismMerry EnglandNational-AnarchismNational Socialism and OccultismNazismNeopaganism in German-speaking EuropeNeo-völkisch movementsJohn PapworthSchutzstaffelGregor Schwartz-BostunitschRudolf von SebottendorfMiguel SerranoPeryt ShouTroy SouthgatePhilipp StauffSudeten German PartyThule SocietyVölkisch movementVrilFriedrich WannieckWhite Order of Thule

Redirects (mostly articles I've turned into redirects)

Werner von BülowCercle de la rose noireGuido von List SocietyHigh Armanen OrderNational anarchismNational Revolutionary FactionOrder of the New TemplarsRank (botany)Rank (zoology)Adolf SchleipferTemplate:Taxanomic ranksTheozoology • Others (too many)

Anything else

CalendarLegion (disambiguation)NomenclatureOccultism and the far rightTemplate:Anarchism sidebarTemplate:ChordataTemplate:Eukaryota classificationTemplate:MammalsTemplate:Nazism sidebarTemplate:NeopaganismTemplate:Taxonomic ranks† • Template:UK far rightUser:UBX/Religion metaphysical

† indicates pages I've created

Debates I've participated in

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Opposed deletions of political and religious user categories: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Supported renaming theological user categories: 8

Successfully opposed deletion of article: 9

Mediation Cabal: National-Anarchism, National-Anarchism (archive)

Talk page discussions: Anarchism and nationalism, Ariosophy, Armanen runes, Australosphenida, Mikhail Bakunin, Choanozoa, Domain (biology), Esoteric Nazism, Esotericism in Germany and Austria, Fish, Germanenorden, Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft, Rudolf Hess, Insectivora, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Light skin, Linnaean taxonomy, List of chordate orders, Mammaliaformes, Mammal-like reptiles, Monotreme, National-Anarchism, National anarchism, National Socialism and Occultism, Nazi occultism, Nazism, Neo-völkisch movements, New Right (UK), Nihali language, Nostratic languages, Billie Piper, Prototheria, Scientific classification, Miguel Serrano, Shin of Hindukush, Troy Southgate, Synapsid, Taxonomic rank, Template:Anarchism sidebar, Template:Infobox actor, Template:Mammals, Template:Nazism sidebar, Template:Neopaganism, Template:Taxobox, Template:UK far right, Thule Society, Triconodonta, Tunicate, Rose Tyler, Uralo-Siberian languages, Völkisch movement, Vril, White Order of Thule

Black Ram Group

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Black Ram was an anarchist affinity group which was active in my home town in the early 80s and briefly published a zine of the same name. From 1978 to 1980 it could hold its meetings in a telephone box but in 1981-82 it put on a growth spurt, partly in response to the Falklands War, which it resolutely opposed. At the same time it began to advocate an anarcho-nationalist position, predicated on the distinction between state and nation, and between authentic folk-nationalism and the false patriotism whipped up by governing cliques. As far as I know, this was the first — and almost casual — introduction of the term 'anarcho-nationalist'. Also (interchangeably with it), the first use of the term 'national anarchist' since the 1920s. It isn't notable enough to warrant its own article, but I have been pleased to get some information about this group on to Wikipedia. I also created and uploaded an image of their anarcho-swastika emblem (the intention of which was to reclaim from the Nazis an ancient symbol that is sacred to many peoples).



Music

My current all-time favourites are listed on Phaedriel's awesome Soundtrack of Wikipedians, which has re-acquainted me with stacks of songs I'd forgotten I liked.


Phaedriel

My soul in twenty songs:

N.B. Copyrighted video content can be linked if the website has licensed the work. The Performing Right Society licenses more than 10 million pieces of music on YouTube in official videos authorised by the artists and labels as well as in user-uploaded videos. In UMG vs Veoh, the judge interpreted reasonable effort to remove material after becoming aware of infringement as compliance with copyright law. It is for the company to notify, not for the user to ensure videos are safe.

Quotes

There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon....The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever....Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past, and as they will know again.

— D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse (artist, novelist and pagan)

Man will once more feel his unity with his fellows, he will feel his unity with the animals, with the mountains and the streams, with the earth itself and the slow lapse of the constellations, not as an abstract dogma of Science or Theology, but as a living and everpresent fact...The meaning of the old religions will come back to him. On the high tops once more gathering he will celebrate with naked dances the glory of the human form and the great procession of the stars, or greet the bright horn of the young moon which now, after a hundred centuries comes back laden with such wondrous associations - all the yearnings and the dreams and the wonderment of the generations of mankind - the worship of Astarte and of Diana, of Isis or the Virgin Mary.

[Gnosis] leads us to the endless and perfect end, teaching us beforehand the future life we shall lead, according to God and with gods....and they are called by the appellation of gods, being destined to sit on other thrones with the other gods that have first been put in their places by the Saviour.

— Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies (Catholic Father and gnostic)

Jesus said: "If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in heaven', then the birds of heaven will be there before you. If they say to you, 'it is in the sea', then the fish will be there before you. But the Kingdom is inside you and it is outside you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will realise that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you are in poverty, and it is you who are the poverty."

The Aryan spirit considers law to be evil and supports the rights of conscience.

— Dunbar Heath, On the Great Race-Elements in Christianity (19th-century anthropologist)

The most genuine Aryans, those who are most Aryan and most sure of their Aryanism are not anti-Semites...on the other hand, in the aggressive anti-Semite one can always detect certain Jewish traits even when his blood is free from any Semitic strain.

— Otto Weininger, Sex and Character (Jewish philosopher)

What the human being basically is, what his innermost secret, most inviolable possession is, that is the great community of living beings in him, that is his lineage, the commonality of his blood with that of all his ancestors.

— Gustav Landauer (German-Jewish anarcho-nationalist revolutionary and völkisch mystic)

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

— G. K. Chesterton (Christian distributist)
...and a poem


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