Written workRecitationInk and quillHazel nutsA poem made and given away
Invocation Approach
Tone
Precise and quick
Address
OgmaSun-Faced OneChampion
Relationship
The teacher who tests the word
Warning
He weighs what you say against what you can do
Resonance
Poets scribes learners those who must speak well
Symbols
Ogham staveSword ornaHazelQuill
Mythology Summary
Ogma mac Elathan is the Dagda's brother and the champion of the Tuatha Dé in Cath Maige Tuired, where he is set to carry firewood under Bres, later challenges Lugh by hurling a flagstone that normally took eighty oxen to move, and takes up the sword Orna. The Ogam Tract (In Lebor Ogaim) makes him the inventor of ogham, devised as a proof of his skill and as a speech for the learned rather than for rustics. His epithet Grianainech, 'sun-faced', is glossed in the Táin and Lebor Gabála, and the Gaulish Ogmios has been read as his cognate.
Modern Practice
Worked with for study, for the craft of writing, and for the discipline of saying a thing exactly; ogham staves and the tree letters are the usual physical focus.