Study Guide
Ogham
Source note
The source guide is explicit and direct about this: the popular "13-month Celtic tree calendar" and full divinatory tree-meanings have "no historical basis in Iron Age or Medieval Irish sources" and were constructed by poet Robert Graves in his 1948 book The White Goddess — "a modern literary invention, not a recovered ancient system," per the source's own words. That distinction (real ancient script vs. modern divinatory layer) is preserved as the card's actual point, not smoothed over.
Reference and casting guide to the 25-letter Ogham script — a genuinely ancient Irish writing system, honestly separated from its popular "Celtic tree calendar," which is a 1948 literary invention, not a recovered ancient tradition.
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