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Re: Ogham Fews
Aicerno OCathasaigh
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Mon May 10 21:50:11 1999
Searles wrote,*br*: Ogham can be written on paper, inscribed on leather, silver, *br*: brass or gold, carved into wood and chiseled into stone.  It *br*: has many varieties that are suited to the ways and the *br*: purposes for which it is intended.  A person can carve them *br*: along the edge of a stick (with squared edges) or they can *br*: be carved onto the face of flat pieces of wood (even drawn *br*: on cards).  The type of wood that is used should be one that *br*: has Magical meaning for you, generally oak, rowan, hazel or *br*: yew, but using the actual woods represented by each Ogham *br*: symbol  is a *extra* mark of skill and dedication.*p*In essence, one can use whatever material is at hand, yes? The material used also might depend upon the function of the writing. I seem to remember a story wherein Lugh warned a certain king that the king's child was about to be carried off to the land of the Sidhe by carving the ogham for beith (|-) into a branch of birch seven times.*br*Sometimes the ogham is used to demarkate territories or burial sites (esp. when carved on stones [though that is not always so]). Also another form in which the ogham might take is in books called "the rods of the poets" in which ogham is inscribed onto branches and then placed into a book format (I read of this in a book of fiction so I have no way to either verify or dispute it. The books I am referring to are the Sister Fidelma novels by Peter Fremoyne, one of which is "Suffer Little Children". It is a Caedfael novel taking place during the seventh century CE, with Sister Fedelma of the Cult of Bridget at Kildare, sister to the heir-apparent to Cashel and the Kingdom of Muman (Munster), who is qualified at the rank of anruth as a brehon).*p*: A good book on them, would be the one that I'm finishing.  A *br*: good class about them would be the one I'm scheduled to *br*: teach online in the Summerlands, later this summer. *br*:*br*: Searles *p*When will you be finished with this book Searles? I would like to see it when it becomes available.*p*Aicerno
Re: Ogham Fews
Searles
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Thu May  6 07:42:33 1999