DIVINATION · LESSON 15 OF 16 · 17 MIN
Ogham in the Stones and the Manuscripts
Where the ogham really comes from — four hundred stones of the fourth to sixth centuries, the medieval tracts that explain the letters, the kennings, which of the twenty names are trees and which are not — and what that leaves for divination.
The Ogham tool reads twenty strokes along a line as twenty trees. That is how the letters have been read for a century, and it is worth knowing how much of it the stones and the books support — because the real history is stranger and better than the tidy one.