In Druidry, the Ogham is the primary divination instrument (the "h" spelling is debatable)."Oh-um" or simply "ohm" is how the term is pronounced. The
Ogham is made up of 20 different Celtic tree alphabet letters, as well as five diphthongs that aren't generally included. Each of the twenty is based on one of twenty sacred trees, and the names of the letters are ancient Welsh (correct
me if it's Gaelic) names for the trees.
They were not used to writing things down since their knowledge was seen as too precious to be written down and was only passed down verbally. The symbols eventually evolved to have divinatory connotations,and the community's Ovate (a second-degree Druid who is a master of healing and divination) would read for the community's leaders and even peasants. For many judgments, they relied significantly on the Ogham.
The primary aim of ogham for current Druids and
Neo-Pagans is divination. “Tochmarc Étane”, a story from the Irish Mythological
Cycle, mentions ogham symbol divination. In the story, the druid Dalan uses
four yew wands to write ogham letters. Then he performs divination using the
tools.
The story does not go into detail about how the
sticks are used or understood. Another way necessitates the use of a cloth
marked with Finn's Window. A person picks some sticks at random, throws them on
the cloth, and then examines the symbols as well as where they landed.
The divinatory meanings are typically based on
tree ogham rather than the Bríatharogam kennings. Each letter has a meaning that
is drawn from its association with a tree or other plant. Briatharogam kennings
are used by some Druidic scholars as a basis for divinatory meanings in ogham
divination. In such systems, the three sets of kennings can be divided into
Past-Present-Future or Land-Sea-Sky groupings, but alternative organizational
structures are also utilized.
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