![]() Why assign only 14 native trees to the 20, given there are 31 species of trees native to the UK? There are some five hundred surviving Ogham inscriptions throughout Britain and Ireland, located around south-eastern Ireland, Scotland, Orkney Isles, the Isle of Man, Pembrokeshire, and the border of Devon and Cornwall.įor myself, as a Druid and a Botanist I find it curious that we continue to use Tree Ogham where only 15 of the 20 Fedha are trees, and one of those 15, the Fir, is not even native to the UK. The Ogham characters were inscribed on stones and probably on staves of wood ![]() ![]() It is similar in purpose, but separate in origin from the Nordic runes. The third, that it was invented in Wales in 400 CE to intertwine the Latin alphabet with the Irish language in response to the intermarriage of Romans and romanized Britons. The fourth theory is that Ogham was invented in Gaul around 600 BCE by Druids who created it as an oral language until it was finally put into writing.ĭruids today use a particular method for communicating and remembering their tree knowledge, it consists of 20 strokes centred-on or branching-off a central line. Second, that Ogham was invented by the first Christians in Ireland in a quest for uniqueness. The first theory suggests that Ogham was first created as a cryptic alphabet designed by the Irish for religious or territorial reasons, that those with a knowledge of Latin could not read it. The differing theories are unsurprising considering that it has similarities to ciphers in Germanic runes, Latin, and the Greek alphabet. There are four academic theories regarding the origin of Ogham (which means language and is pronounced o’um, or och’um).
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