We may have just broken the mold when it comes to how we view not just the Ancient Irish Alphabet, the Ogham Fews, but to the whole of Neolithic history and beyond.
In the book, Light Grange, we explored the possibility that the ancients not only understood the natural currents of nature, but that they were able to utilize these currents on such a sophisticated level and in such sophisticated ways that they out scope our modern sensibilities.
It’s hard to embrace the ideas at first because they are so far outside of what we’ve been taught. So, what would we need first to be able to wrap our brains around it? A little bit of math might help. I mean, it is, after all, the language of the universe.
We begin with what we have and go from there. We have an alphabet made from a vertical staff with 1 to 5 lines interacting with that staff in four different ways. Five characters go right, five characters go left, five characters intersect horizontally, and five characters intersect diagonally. From these twenty characters, we can create the Unit Circle needed to calculate various angles and relationships between angles in a three-dimensional space, allowing the visual representation of waveforms, frequencies, and many other things.
Let’s start with the Unit Circle.
A Unit Circle, as defined in mathematics, ‘ is a circle with the radius of one unit, typically centered at the origin (0,0) in the Cartesian coordinate plane. It’s a fundamental tool in trigonometry, used to visualize and understand trigonometric functions and their relationships.’
Here is our Ogham Fews Unit Circle
Please let us know how this might change things for you.
