As I know, Gnomes believe in Mother Earth. Gnomes are a family of three main species. One you find in nearly every German garden, the other living and working beneath the surface, to collect noble metals, gems and cristal. The third one is living together with Santa Claus at the north pole. All of them believe in the big crystal only, as the pure epiphany of Mother Earth. In the night, when humans are sleeping, they have gatherings to prize Mother Earth. We call a gnome „Zwerg“ and this one in the picture, is a specimen of the Gartenzwerge (subst., pl.) – Garden–Gnomes.

I'm sorry to tell this, yours is a fake Gartenzwerg because normally they are made of pug and doesn't travel because their place is in the garden only. Always standing in an area, just where the neighbours coming by and have a look how tidy this garden is made. They are annoying a litte bit. When I am passing by, they are always asking how my garden is made. „Is it well done as ours? Are you gardening at all? Are you German? Oh, our garden is made much more better than yours!“ And so on. They are talking a lot of stuff like this. I don't like them very much but even my family has one of them standing beside the doorway. You can't avoid their coming on the scene. But ours is a fake too. It is made of hard rubber and so I am pretty sure, he is not talking at all.