Oghamura

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Oghamura is a cursive development of Ogham which came to light in Scotland in the twentieth century. It differs from Ogham in that it is curvilinear and more suited to exploiting the expressive possibilities of using ink on paper, unlike Ogham whose straight lines attest to its origin in the working of stone and wood. Oghamura has a larger character set than Ogham, nikkudim-like vowel indications, initial, medial and final forms of individual characters, and is read from top to bottom, and left to right.

It is often seen in the context of modern spirituality and practise and is associated with particular contemplative strands of Scottish neo-pagan thought. Practising Oghamura calligraphy is sometimes used as a meditative discipline to facilitate the writer in moving beyond the literal meaning of the text, and a body of Oghamura texts are often used, although the tradition thus far has been resistant to the establishment of a canon.

Oghamura also serves as a base 36 notation for numbers, as a musical notation in which tones are indicated relative to the dominant which is represented by the Ogham base line, and as a notation for movement. Divinatory techniques are often highly personal and based upon using the instrinsic symmetries of the characters to map one set of words onto other sets of words. These techniques are generally considered valuable only as an aid to introspection.

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