“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
Edna O’Brien
Beyond the listed uses of Ogham for specific woods, the ancient Celts also used certain trees for creating teine éigin (“need fires”). Sacred fire was almost always kindled from the sacred woods (sometime three different tree types and sometimes nine). According to Lewis Spence in his book, “The History and Origins of Druidism,” the Druids kindled the teine éigin from the wood of two oaks (either by rubbing or rotating them against one another)…
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Searles O'Dubhain
Searles O’Dubhain is an American Celtic scholar, writer and story teller who has been practicing Druidry for over 30 years. Searles created ‘The Summerlands’, one of the very first beloved online Celtic pagan communities in the early 90’s. He additionally published ‘Ogham Divination’, that lays a detailed and creative pathway of recreating and discovering the ancient ways of the Druids. This and much more available on his website.
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