How To Read Ogham

This comprehensive and practical guide to the ancient oracle is based on the alphabet of the Druids. It provides an historical background and bibliographic references to the Druidic mythology ruling this 1,500-year-old oracle.

David Stifter’s Sengoídelc (SHAN-goy-thelg) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. As an introductory text to the Irish language spoken around the eighth century C.E., this essential volume, covering all aspects of the grammar in a clear and intuitive format, is ideally suited for use as a course book or as a guide for the independent learner. This handbook also will be an essential reference work for students of Indo-European philology and historical linguistics. Stifter leads the novice through the idiosyncrasies of the language, such as initial mutations and the double inflection of verbs. Filled with translation exercises based on selections from Old Irish texts, the book provides a practical introduction to the language and its rich history. Sengoídelc opens the door to the fascinating world of Old Irish literature, famous not only for the Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cúailnge) and its lyrical nature poetry but also as a major source for the political and legal history of Ireland. Stifter’s step-by-step approach and engaging style make his book an ideal tool for both the self taught individual and the classroom environment. It will be of interest to beginning students of Old and Middle Irish, to scholars of Irish history, Celtic culture, and comparative linguistics, and to readers of Irish literature.

The form of Irish known as Ogham was established as a medium of written communication by the fourth century AD. Ogham is believed to have been influenced by the Latin alphabet and consists of twenty letters carved along a vertical line, for example along the edge of a standing stone. This book is a bilingual explanation and illustrated representation of the Ogham alphabet.

With two decades of experience with the ogam and more than 30 years of working with divination, the author offers insights into the many profound meanings hidden in the ogam letters and their lore. She explains each letter in context and shows how to expand the system in new and innovative ways.

This little booklet aims to teach you how to read the Celtic ogham characters for the purpose of divination. It is a purely practical instruction manual, intent upon giving you the information you need in order to actually do something and put the principles into practice. As such, all historical or philosophical information is kept to a bare minimum, except that which is absolutely necessary for you to understand what you are doing. The booklet is divided into four sections: What the ogham letters are The meanings of the ogham How to make your own ogham set How to use the ogham for divination In short, the booklet will instruct you in the shapes, sounds and values of the ogham; what they mean; how to make and charge a set, and how to use them to cast divinations (or, more colloquially, 'fortune telling').

A Deep Exploration of Celtic Spirituality The Book of Ogham is a practical manual for divination using the ancient Celtic characters of ogham writing. However, it is much more than that as well. It opens the doors to the authentic understanding of ancient Celtic cosmology and psychology in ways that have never been done before. This, as much as the divinatory material, opens the reader to vistas as yet uncharted in the fields of Celtic studies. In this book the reader will discover: * A complete system of oghamic divination * Four different methods of divination * The lore of each of the 20 ogham characters * Instructions on how to make ogham fews * Celtic psychology * Celtic cosmology * A complete suggested curriculum for training in Celtic spirituality based on the ogham system

"Being the texts of the Ogham tract from the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow Book of Lecan, and the text of the Trefhocul from the Book of Leinster."