OGHAM

ogam, or ogumall: ŏgˈəm, ōˈəm, ancient Celtic alphabet of one of the Irish runic languages. It was used by the druids and abandoned after the first few centuries of the Christian era. The ogham runes remain only in gravestone inscriptions found mostly in W Ireland and also in England, Scotland, and the Shetland Islands. The origin of ogham is uncertain; it contained 25 letters formed of straight lines and may have been adapted from a sign language. A treatise on ogham, The Book of Ballymote (15 cent.), confirms that it was a secret, ritualistic language.

See R. A. Macalister, The Secret Languages of Ireland (1937).

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books on: Ogham  - 111 results

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Science Confronts the Paranormal
Book by Kendrick Frazier; Prometheus Books, 1986
Subjects: Occultism And Science, Parapsychology And Science
...from written Latin. The distribution of ogham was restricted to one part of Ireland and...Latinized origin, it is impossible for ogham to have been known and used by Spanish...visited Vermont where the alleged ancient ogham was reported. They found that some of...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature
Book by Henry Morley; Cassell, 1887
Subjects: English Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction
...country of which there is record was by the Ogham characters, still to be seen on stone monuments and in some ancient books. The Ogham marks upon stone blocks are chiefly Irish...the other: of the Babylonian branch the Ogham characters are the only Western representative...
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Prehistoric Ireland
Book by Joseph Raftery; B. T. Batsford, 1951
Subjects: Ireland--Antiquities
...to consists of the well-known class of Ogham stones, which occur in very restricted...confirms the Irish coastal distribution. An Ogham stone is essentially a pillar about one...provided on which a memorial inscription in Ogham characters is cut. The nature anti implication...
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States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment
Book by Vicki Mahaffey; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Ireland--In Literature, Joyce, James--1882-1941--Criticism And Interpretation, National Characteristics, Irish, In Literature, Wilde, Oscar--1854-1900--Criticism And Interpretation, Yeats, W. B--(William Butler)--1865-1939--Criticism And Interpretation
...left visible traces throughout Ireland is Ogham, the language of the Druids. Even before...they were sometimes etched on stone. 15 Ogham writing was apparently closely connected...Bonwick, 311). As Nigel Pennick claims, Ogham was far more than merely a system of writing...
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The Foundations of England or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55-A.D. 1154)
Book by James H. Ramsay; Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1898
Subjects: Great Britain--History--To 1485
...the best claim to be considered the birthplace of Ogham letters. 2 IRISH OGHAM ALPHABET. 3 "Exceedingly little is said by ancient...For the learning on this subject see R. R. Brash, Ogham Inscriptions Dublin, 1869 , and Ogham Inscribed Monuments...
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journal articles on: Ogham  - 8 results

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Under the Seat of Knowledge: a Photo Essay on Failure
Journal article by Margaret Werry, Róisín O'Gorman; Transformations, Vol. 20, 2009
...outside this room, there is a hallway with Ogham stones, beautiful, bound, and poised...of a tree or shrub, and some claim that Ogham was based upon a secret sign language...large scale choreographies based on the Ogham alphabet (amongst other referents...
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The Meeting of the Tracks: Rock Art in Ancient Wales
Journal article by Juliette Wood; Folklore, Vol. 117, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Meeting of the Tracks: Rock Art in Ancient Wales (Book)
...One, which the author seems to favour, involves the possible divinatory purpose of ogham. Unfortunately, his source for this is not modern criticism on ogham, but Liz and Colin Murrays Celtic Tree Oracle, a popular divination book using Iolo...
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Literary Parallels Stemming from a Resemblance in the Authors' Creative Development: the Extraordinary Similarities between Amos Oz's the Same Sea and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Journal article by Sagit Blumrosen-Sela; PSYART, 2006
...leaping lasso - who thus at all this marveling but will press on hotly to see the vaulting feminine libido of those interbranching ogham sex upandinsweeps sternly controlled and easily repersuaded by the uniform matteroffactness of a meandering male fist...
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Archaeological Reminiscences: from the Plains and Back Again
Journal article by James H. Gunnerson; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 51, 2006
Subjects: Art galleries & museums, Chemical engineering, Chemistry, Government employees, Society
...had been built by Vikings or other very early European explorers, that the associated petroglyphs included inscriptions in Ogham, runic, and ancient Mediterranean writing, that a tremendous aura of psychological or mystic power was associated with them...
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Schriftkultur: Eine Geschichtedes Schreibens Und Lesens
Journal article by John L. Flood; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Schriftkultur: Eine Geschichtedes Schreibens und Lesens (Book)--Book reviews
...well-known) illustrations, though a few more showing generally unfamiliar alphabets such as Etruscan, the runic futhark, ogham, Old Hungarian (used in Transylvania as late as the 1850s), and the Korean Hangul would have been welcome. While Stein...
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Blueprints, Bloody Ships, and Borrowed Letters
Magazine article by Jared Diamond; Natural History, Vol. 104, March 1995
Subjects: History, Inventions, Technology transfer
...about what happened. For example, the Ogham characters used in Ireland and parts of...alphabetic societies. Yet the forms of the Ogham letters resembled those of no other alphabet...writing systems (such as Cherokee and Ogham) designed new sign forms while borrowing...
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The Diffusionists Have Landed : You've Probably Heard of Those Crackpot Theories about Ancient Phoenicians or Chinese in the New World. Maybe It's Time to Start Paying Attention
Magazine article by Marc K. Stengel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000
Subjects: Emigration and immigration--History, United States--History
...use against Fell are a series of Celtic ogham inscriptions that were sent to Fell from...which have been reported are genuine Celtic ogham." These are the very markings that most...Fells work there would be no North American ogham problem to perplex us. We need to ask...
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Diffusionists Have Landed: You've Probably Heard of Those Crackpot Theories about Ancient Phoenicians or Chinese in the New World. Maybe It's Time to Start Paying Attention
Magazine article by Mark K. Stengel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000
Subjects: America, Archaeology--Methods, Native American history--History, Native North Americans--History, Native South Americans--History
...use against Fell are a series of Celtic ogham inscriptions that were sent to Fell from...which have been reported are genuine Celtic ogham." These are the very markings that most...Fells work there would be no North American ogham problem to perplex us. We need to ask...
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Travels with Toni
Magazine article by John Leonard; The Nation, Vol. 258, January 17, 1994
Subjects: Morrison, Toni--Achievements and awards, Nobel laureates--Behavior
...because hed brought with him from Nigeria a dazzling dashiki. But Id look odd as a blue-faced Druid, speaking the tribal Ogham. By Tuesday John Darnton of The New York Times had arrived and Eugene Robinson from The Washington Post and Fran Lebowitz from...
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Prince Valiant's England
Magazine article by Cullen Murphy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 273, February 1994
Subjects: Bath, England--Description and travel, Exmoor National Park, England--Description and travel, Somerset, England--Description and travel
...suspect that anachronisms have crept in. I have engaged in spirited and protracted correspondence regarding such things as the ogham alphabet used by the Celtic druids, the technology of anvils, and the origin of the surname Fulda. Both of us do considerable...
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Threat to Our Heritage; Loophole Allows the Levelling of Ancient Sites
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 21, 2010
Subjects: Archaeology
...Islands, it contains one of the finest examples of Ogham stones on its summit. The Dingle Peninsula itself has the largest collection of Ogham stones, almost 70, in Ireland. Ogham is the earliest form of Irish writing, and the...
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Reviews
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 14, 2009
Reviews. Druids - The Ogham Sacrifice Jean-Luc Istin Thierry Jigourel (Dalen Books, pounds...through their chests and carving the Nod Cyfrin, the three line mystic Ogham mark of the Druids into their skin. The result is a beautifully illustrated...
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Remote Access; Island Hopping in the Windswept Southern Inner Hebrides Is the Perfect Escape - Just Don't Rely on Having Great Weather, Says Louise Jury
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 18, 2010
Subjects: Weather
...attract the locals as well as tourists. And Gigha itself is charming. The major selling points are the Achamore Gardens and the Ogham Stone. We wandered down towards the sea to find the sun-dappled waters and seasl that were the highlight of our trip. Later...
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Braveheart Mel's Deep Irish Roots
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 8, 2011
Subjects: Gibson, Mel
...Meath, the seat of the kings of Ireland. In Munster, the language of the Eoganacht tribe was heavily influenced by Latin. Ogham, the first script in the Irish language, derived its alphabet from Latin. Martin Brady, Sneem, Co. Kerry
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The Prize Crossword
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 20, 2011
...Crazy, 42 Hawkeye, 43 Verdi. DOWN: 2 Ricci, 3 Prime number, 5 Cassandra, 6 Thoth, 7 Niagara, 9 Cutie, 10 Omega, 11 Ogham, 12 Ladysmith, 19 Prawn, 21 India, 23 Tallahassee, 24 Irony, 25 Stem cells, 27 Octopussy, 29 Gorilla, 31 Clyde, 33...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ogham  - 5 results

 
 
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Ogham
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OGHAM ogam, or ogum all: og m, o m, ancient...few centuries of the Christian era. The ogham runes remain only in gravestone inscriptions...and the Shetland Islands. The origin of ogham is uncertain; it contained 25 letters formed...
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Irish Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...It has 18 letters: 13 consonants and 5 vowels. The oldest extant Irish texts are inscriptions written in the ogham script (see ogham ). These texts date back to the 5th cent. a.d. or perhaps earlier and differ as much from the early literary...
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Alphabet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...similar development created the Persian cuneiform syllabary. Two European alphabets of the late Roman era were the runes and the ogham . An exotic modern system is the Cherokee syllabary created by Sequoyah , suggested by, but not based on, the Roman alphabet...
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Inscription
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...republic there was a Celtic epigraphy in Gaul, at first in Greek letters. However, the chief Celtic inscriptions are in the ogham writings of the Christian era. The Germanic runes are another European alphabet used in inscriptions. Later Epigraphy Latin...
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Ferguson, Sir Samuel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FERGUSON, SIR SAMUEL 1810 86, Irish poet and antiquary. Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland (1887) is his best-known work on Irish antiquities. His major poetic works...


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