Ogham or Celtic Tree Alphabet a Druid View

 Wikipedia http:// en.Wikipedia. Org/wiki/Ogham >>"Ogham is sometimes called the "Celtic Tree Alphabet", based on a High Medieval Bríatharogam tradition ascribing names of trees to the individual letters. There are roughly 400 surviving ogham inscriptions on stone monuments throughout Ireland and western Britain; the bulk of them are in the south of Ireland, in Counties Kerry, Cork and Waterford. The largest number outside of Ireland is in Pembrokeshire in Wales.^[4] The remainder are mostly in south-eastern Ireland, Scotland, Orkney Isles, the Isle of Man, and England around the Devon/Cornwall border. The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal names.

The etymology of the word ogam or ogham remains unclear. One possible origin is from the Irish og-úaim 'point-seam', referring to the seam made by the point of a sharp weapon.^[5]"<<

^{TDK -> Wikipedia is fine on this as far as it goes. Which is all almost anyone needs today.}

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"Ogham or Celtic Tree Alphabet a Druid View.

^{The straight line marking style of writing with an ax or sharp stone served well of writing on Trees and Wooden Poles a free and endless supply of outdoor quality paper for a forest dwelling people.}

^{Of course this is not the true root of of the Ogham language and symbols.  Certain ancient and subgroups each took a different tree as identification and informational focal and storage system. From this practice and use by these long gone visitors, their mixed breed decedents continued to use the outward simple aspects of this system for communications. To my knowledge there is few to none that have any real access to its older higher levels of information or encoding. Then there is the always interesting question of the Chicken and the Egg. Did the Ancients adopt the different Tree types or did they bring these seeds with them or alter stock that was already here for their special needs?}

^{Well as nothing is know of them except from (D.B.G.T method) research that few can or chose to do. I will leave it to the reader to discover more. I have peeled back the veil of time just enough to reveal a almost lost trail. Happy journeys to all.}

^{The Druid King"}

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