MDDM Ch. 51 Ogham

[Dave Monroe]

   "'-- So it reads in the Field-Book.'
   "'They handed that in?'  Ethelmer in surprise.
   "'Part of the official record,' Uncle Ives's
Eyebrows descending.
   "'However, where Mason saw a Gothick Interior,
Dixon saw 'pon ev'ry Surface, ancient Inscriptions,
Glyphs unreadable,-- Ogham, possibly.'
   "Mr. Shockey has little to add.  'The Indians, it
seems like they stay'd away from here,-- bad Spirits
or something.  So if it's writing, it's have to be
older 'n them.'
   "'Could've been Welsh Indians,' offers one of his
Sons." (M&D, Ch. 51, p. 497)


Mason vs. Dixon, melancholic/phlegmatic vs. 
sanguine/choleric, "Gothick Interior" vs. "ancient
Inscriptions"?  Let me know ...


Ogham

"Ogham (OH-yam) is believed to have been devised by
the Irish somewhere between the first and third
centuries AD. Surviving examples place its' primary
use to the Christian period, however, some Celtic
scholars believe it to be of far greater antiquity.

[...]

"The name Ogham or Ogam (Ohm) was derived from that of
the Celtic god of literature and eloquence, Ogma, who
is credited with its' invention. The letters are
constructed using a combination of lines placed
adjacent to or crossing a midline. An individual
letter may contain from one to five vertical or angled
strokes. Vowels were sometimes described as a
combination of dots. The midline was, most often, the
edge of the object on which the inscription was
carved. Ogham is read from top to bottom, left to
right."

http://celt.net/Celtic/History/ogam.html

http://members.aol.com/plieadesqu/ogham.htm

http://members.aol.com/irishdremr/oghamintro.html

http://www.evertype.com/standards/og/ogmharc.html


Welsh Indians

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/madoc.htm

http://www.barstow.cc.ca.us/wac/madoc.htm


"'pon ev'ry Surface, ancient Inscriptions, Glyphs
unreadable"

Cf. ...

"But the Rocket has to be many things, it must answer
to a number of different shapes in the dreams of those
who touch it--in combat, in tunnel, on paper--it must
surbive heresies shining, unconfoundable ... and
heretics there will be: Gnostics who have been taken
in a rush of wind and fire to chambers of the
Rocket-throne ... Kabbalists who study the Rocket as
Torah, letter by letter--rivets, burner cup and brass
rose, its text is theirs to permute and combine into
new revelations, always unfolding ..." (GR, Pt. 4, p.
727)

"San Narciso lay further south, near L.A. Like many
name places in California it was less an identifiable
city than a grouping of concepts [...]. She looked
down a slope [...] and she thought of the time she'd
opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and see
her first printed circuit. The ordered swirl of houses
and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now
with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the
circuit card had. Though she knew even less about
radios than about Southern Californians, there were to
both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of
concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate." (Lot
49, Ch. 1, p. 24)

"... like walking among matrices of a great digital
computer, the zeroes and ones twinned above, hanging
like balanced mobiles right and left, ahead, thick,
maybe endless.  Behind the hieroglyphic streets there
would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the
earth." (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 181)

"This 'New World' was ever a secret Body of 
Knowledge,-- meant to be studied with the same
dedication as the Hebrew Kabbala would demand.  Forms
of the Land, the flow of water, the occurrence of what
us'd to be call'd Miracles, all are Text,-- to be
attended to, manipulated, read, remember'd." (M&D, Ch.
50, p. 487)

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