{"id":1717,"date":"2015-05-15T00:49:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2015-05-15T00:54:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:54:08","slug":"ogmios-warning-in-ogham-to-lug-mac-elathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ogmios-warning-in-ogham-to-lug-mac-elathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogmios Warning in Ogham to Lug mac Elathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The first message in Ogham was 7 letter &#8220;B&#8221;&#8216;s carved into Birchwood:<br \/>\na warning to Lug mac Elathan from Ogmios that his wife would be<br \/>\nabducted to the underworld seven times unless protected by carrying<br \/>\na charm of birchwood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1718\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Charm-of-Birchwood-with-the-seven-letter-Bs-on-it.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Charm-of-Birchwood-with-the-seven-letter-Bs-on-it.jpg\" alt=\"Charm of Birchwood with the seven letter Bs on it\" width=\"218\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Charm-of-Birchwood-with-the-seven-letter-Bs-on-it.jpg 218w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Charm-of-Birchwood-with-the-seven-letter-Bs-on-it-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charm of Birchwood with the seven letter Bs on it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Be aware that your wife, Lug, Elathan&#8217;s son<br \/>\nBe carried to the other world shall be<br \/>\nBe aware for the rest of her life neath the sun<br \/>\nBe taken again six times more unless she<br \/>\nBe guarded though by the birch bark be done<br \/>\nBe charm carried with her all times I decree<br \/>\nBe warned by the seven B&#8217;s on this birch &#8211; let the spell be done!<\/p>\n<address><b>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.tartanplace.com\/faery\/gods\/ogre.html<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ogham<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first message in Ogham was 7 letter &#8220;B&#8221;&#8216;s carved into Birchwood: a warning to Lug mac Elathan from Ogmios that his wife would be abducted to the underworld seven times unless protected by carrying a charm of birchwood. Be aware that your wife, Lug, Elathan&#8217;s son Be carried to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,169,120,159],"tags":[1857,1856,1254,1859,1255,1860,1855,1858],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-legend","category-myths-and-tales","category-non-rhyming-poems","category-wanderings-of-the-gael","tag-elathan","tag-lug","tag-ogam","tag-ogam-legend","tag-ogham","tag-ogham-script","tag-ogmios","tag-origin-of-ogham","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-rH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1113,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ogham-kenning\/","url_meta":{"origin":1717,"position":0},"title":"Ogham Kenning","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th February 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A \"kenning\" is a piece of poetry or prose used to remember the order of letters, alphabets or similar lists. 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