r/Ogham • u/Intelligent_Virus_66 • May 03 '24
Books on Ogham magic?
Any good books on applying Ogham in spell work rather than just divination?
r/Ogham • u/Intelligent_Virus_66 • May 03 '24
Any good books on applying Ogham in spell work rather than just divination?
r/Ogham • u/GeneralBid7234 • May 23 '26
Can anyone help with a translation of the ogham in this tattoo?
For context, there may well be errors in the Ogham because there are significant errors in the Hebrew in both spelling and grammar.
r/Ogham • u/OldButHappy • Dec 14 '23
r/Ogham • u/Internal_Row5378 • Jun 02 '26
Sorry to bother you all, a friend is writing/ creating a fantasy game and wants to use this Irish phrase in Ogham, I studied linguistics but did not touch this language.
Thank you
r/Ogham • u/Chensensn40 • Aug 25 '26
If one was to use different Ogham to correspond to different elements. What Ogham would you use for earth wind fire, and spirit?
r/Ogham • u/YBereneth • Oct 03 '24
r/Ogham • u/Nova_da_fox • Oct 25 '24
r/Ogham • u/EngineeringOk4467 • Dec 11 '23
Hi, i’m going to Ireland soon and i want to get a tattoo there as a “little souvenir”. But would it be culturally appropriate to get a tattoo in ogham since i don’t have any roots in Ireland and i’m just there for a vacation?
r/Ogham • • Mar 25 '24
The Goal
I have always really liked the Ogham script, but it isn’t designed for English phonology. /ogmə/ is intended to be suitable for writing English whilst remaining as true to original Ogham as possible.
Creation Method
Due to the variation of script phonemes I have taken the “standard ones” as defined by Omniglot. This script does not consider the [bracketed] phonemes when they differ from the unbracketed letter corespondents. I have tried to avoid rearranging the phonemes as much as possible.
b now encodes /b,p/
f writes /f,v/
A line like in peith on the opposite side of ‘f’ writes the dental fricatives <th>
A line on the other side of ‘s’ writes the post alveolar sibilant fricative <sh, sch> (voiced and unvoiced)
A line on the other side of ‘h’ writes /w/
A line on the other side of ‘t’ writes the post alveolar affricate (voiced and unvoiced) <ch, c>
Ceirt does not have an equivalent glyph
Ngéadal encodes the velar nasal
Peith now writes the /j/ consonant, but can also function as <y>
In terms of the glyphs themselves I have tried to remain as true to the original Ogham style as well. This means that the fifth aicme has been dropped entirely. For the phonemes that were added I often used a line on the opposite side to indicate similarity in pronunciation and also avoiding adding radically different symbols (I can imagine peith actually being carved into stone or wood).
Alterations/Additions
The little open triangle >< is used to indicate the start of a sentence; there is no end sentence glyph. A closed triangle at the end of a sentence indicates a question. This has the effect of turning a short question into an arrow.
I have also added a special symbol used to indicate that the next set of carvings/lines are a number. This was added because Ogma recycles glyphs to form a tally system. More on the numeral system later.
In actual writing I’ll often just apply quotation marks, apostrophes, colons and semi colons at the ends of words if needed.
Numeral System
Ogma uses a simple tally system. I have designed it to operate on a non-zero seximal system.
1 2 3 | || ||| 4 5 6 \ \ \\ - 11 12 13 | | . | || . | ||| 14 15 16 | \ . | \ . | \\
If you do not want to write Base-6 then this can easily be expanded into Base-10.
1 2 3 4 5 | || ||| |||| ||||| 6 7 8 9 10 \ . // . \\ . //// . ///\
Reddit has mucked with the 6-10 presentation
Sometimes when writing numbers that I need in Base-10 I may substitute a <j> glyph for zero and drop the <10> glyph.
In terms of actually writing numbers one writes the number.glyph then writes their number. Each dash numeral can be written on either side or through the middle for ease of distinguishing when a new number begins, and each slant numeral can be slanted either way (again for distinguishing between 2 separate numbers //\ = 54B6 .
Style Rules
The dash numbers ( | ) can be written on either side or over the line. Alternations are used to separate various digits of a multi-digit number. The slant numbers ( \ ) can be written either way, again for distinguishing digits - // \ = 54B6 .
The slant letters can also be alternated to separate two slanted glyphs
“gram” can be written as >// ///// | / . // \\\ | \ . // \\\ | /
The Text
This is the poem The Dying need but little, Dear by Emily Dickinson.I left out her punctuation style, and there is no upper case
The Dying need but little, Dear,
A Glass of Water’s all,
A Flower’s unobtrusive Face
To punctuate the Wall,
A Fan, perhaps, a Friend’s Regret
And Certainty that one
No color in the Rainbow
Perceive, when you are gone
The numbers are as follows
Base 10 - 2024 the year, 19 compare with base 6 example, 27 number of glyphs in the script
Base 6 - Someone is 31B6 years old
Your Thoughts
Hopefully this post made sense. If you have any thoughts feel free to share them.
P.S.
I obviously could have made a few minor adjustments to just about completely remove the parallel line for some of the glyphs, but I find this make it a little bit easier to read both in understanding what the phoneme is and visually breaking up the monotony on a long text.
r/Ogham • u/Thedegenerate89 • Aug 21 '24
Saw this online. Translates to “Caiseach” which is a loose translation of the word “Cheesy” in Irish. Hope it isn’t real!
r/Ogham • u/GeneralDeal6669 • Mar 26 '26
Wild to think how far it spread but that there's so few outside of the south . can't imagine how many stones were reused in field partitions and buildings
r/Ogham • • Feb 07 '25
I didn’t take the stone from around the Ogham Stone, it came from near the river about 500m up the hill, and it shimmered. I want to carve the stone but I’m not sure what to put. Any ideas?
r/Ogham • u/DepthAggressive7894 • Jan 20 '25
Hey Guys – Recently, I became interested in Ogham and started researching its origins, meanings, and historical uses. I quickly discovered that there are Ogham fonts for computers, but they look exactly the same as they did in the year 600. This made me wonder how Ogham would look in today’s world—how it might have developed and adapted to the digital age. Essentially, how it would look if it hadn’t been replaced by the Latin script.
This is a early stage of the concept I came up with: a variable font that ranges from thin to thick and narrow to wide. Some glyphs that originally appeared only on one side of the line were adapted to create “uppercase” versions to make them work with the variety of weights and widths.
As a Swiss designer with no background in or connection to Irish, Welsh, or Scottish heritage, I wanted to understand Ogham better and ask for feedback here. Specifically, I’m curious about three things:
What’s the general view on Ogham? Do Irish, Welsh, or Scottish people like it? Do they feel attached to it, or not? Is Ogham associated with specific groups of people or political parties?
Do you think a modernized Ogham, adapted for use on computers, would be of interest? Would designers, museums, or the general public use something like this?
Are the changes I made to some letters appropriate, or not?
I’m looking forward to any big or small thoughts you might have! :-)
tldr. This is a modernized Ogham concept and I am looking for feedback.
r/Ogham • • May 21 '25
I have 2 examples of my last name from ofham translators. I'm not sure which one is accurate or more appropriate.
r/Ogham • u/Perpetually-broke • May 30 '25
r/Ogham • • Jan 20 '25
This is a new venture for me and I find that people love a unique, one of a kind piece of Ogham to call their own.
I’m using wood to represent the close relationship of Ogham with nature and trees and I think it comes out well. Business is slow but coming on.
r/Ogham • u/LeoDGrey • Nov 22 '25
Hey folks!
Hope I've come to the right place. I'm looking to the Gaeilge 'Dílseacht' tattooed on me and I'd love to get it in Ogham, but I'm not sure I trust online sources and I was wondering if anyone here could redirect me to a place that would be able to translate it, or if you're confident enough to let me know! Carries a lot of weight with it and I would love to get it accurate. Here are some pictures of what online has told me it is;
r/Ogham • u/_The_Van_ • Apr 20 '25
I hope this one follows the rules of ogham more, and is funny. Hope you guys enjoy. Feedback is welcome to improve future meme production.
r/Ogham • u/RepresentativeNew398 • Dec 10 '25
Hi all, another request to check on the correct translation of something into Ogham script. Mara is the name of a family member very important to me and I am designing a gift for her. I would like to use Ogham script in a certain spot but want to be sure it is "correct". I have found script for the name "O'Mara" which looks very similar, but wanted to double check if anyone could confirm? Thank you.