Ogam/Ogham Stones

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tjj Oct 13, 2009 14:47:32
Replying to drewbhoy

drewbhoy wrote:
Are cross incised stones types of ogam/ogham? So to answer your question, I don't have a clue but like a lot of things in this forum I don't understand it's good to find out about them,
Thanks for answering, I'm interested in how many pre-christian symbols have been absorbed into what came later. The 'sun-wheel' seems very prolific in so-called 'celtic christianity' (pre-roman).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_cross

This Wikipedia site has a section on the Stone/Bronze Age and it seems the symbol was around.

B Branwen
Branwen Oct 13, 2009 14:59:59
Replying to tjj

The equal armed cross has been a pagan symbol in a great many early cultures, even when it isn't an ogam. I think its just coincidence the ogam for a-ailm is a cross, all the ogam are straight lines crossing a fixed lines, one to five, crossing one side or both, straight or at an angle. On the stones the meridian line they cross is the edge of the stone.

http://www.wulflund.com/images_items/sun-wheel---mikulcice_2.jpg

Usually thought to represent the sun divided into four by solstices and equinoxes.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_L2g8S_lz9CE/SH6oHwt_OnI/AAAAAAAAAhM/nj-WkKReAdI/IMG_4440.JPG

Hoping to get signed back to work today, so less stonehead-bothering from me!