[yhwhsman]

Plus, there are many Ogam inscriptions found in the US as well. Just finished reading a very good book, America BC, awesome stuff.

I'm fascinated by the Ogam script. Very versatile. Each letter of the 'alpahbet' is a series of lines. When you are carving words on rocks, it's much easier to carve lines then fancy cursive type letters. Plus you can use your fingers to spell the letters as a kind of sign language. And then, many statues have been found where the hands are spelling words, leaving behind a message for all time.

[SunkenCiv]

I've very fond of that book. Fell's idea (perhaps he gave attribution elsewhere, I read it 20 years ago) was that Ogham began as a type of fingerspelling. He also notes that the fingers of the Thor character on the Gundestrup Cauldron spell "thunder" using ogham and whatever language it was...

	America B.C. by Barry Fell find it in a nearby library
	Saga America by Barry Fell find it in a nearby library
	Bronze-Age America by Barry Fell find it in a nearby library

[Jandy on Genesis]

The hieroglyphs were priestly writings, and the symbolism of each glyph or pictograph pertains to the ancient Egyptian cosmology which changed over time. The oldest of these will be found in the Upper Nile and at the oldest Horite shrine in Nekhen. To understand the Sumerian pictographs we have to look at the earlier roots common to both the Nilotic and Sumerian peoples. Here we will find some very ancient lexemes, like V and W; T/X and the solar symbols O and Y. Research the urheimat of the Canaanite Y.

Many of these lexemes appear in the old Dedanite scripts, and in the Oasis North Arabian alphabets like Thamudic, Dumaitic, and Taymanitic.

There were other ancient writing forms used by merchants for keeping accounts. These are found along ancient trade routes; the spice routes, the King’s Highway from Egypt through Palestine, the ancient tin route from Spain to Ireland, etc. These involve fewer pictographs and more hatch marks that suggest counting or record keeping. It is possible that Ogham developed from these early commercial scripts. Some of the elements of the commercial scripts are found in Hebrew and in Ainu.

[Jandy on Genesis]

The entrances to the stone chambers at Acton, Massachusetts and Maeshowe in Orkney are almost identical. Maeshowe represents finer workmanship, however.