firstly, I'd like to thank you for all the work you've done for us this year. It is highly appreciated.
Secondly, the question - it has recently come to my attention that the order of the Ogham fews in the first aicme is subject of some controversy. Mainstream researchers say its BLFSN and that competing theories that it was originally BLNFS are disproven (so says Wikipedia). The DMH gives the BLNFS order, because of Belinus, the sun god.
Its not a big deal for me, I personally like the DMH version. But do you know how letter order in an alphabet became a controversy among researchers? It's just such a strange topic to disagree on, there got to be direct evidence one way or another.
And it can create some problems down the line if somebody decides to use Ogham letters to encode numbers or the other way around.
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Ogham alphabet
Date: 2020-12-28 05:54 am (UTC)firstly, I'd like to thank you for all the work you've done for us this year. It is highly appreciated.
Secondly, the question - it has recently come to my attention that the order of the Ogham fews in the first aicme is subject of some controversy. Mainstream researchers say its BLFSN and that competing theories that it was originally BLNFS are disproven (so says Wikipedia). The DMH gives the BLNFS order, because of Belinus, the sun god.
Its not a big deal for me, I personally like the DMH version. But do you know how letter order in an alphabet became a controversy among researchers? It's just such a strange topic to disagree on, there got to be direct evidence one way or another.
And it can create some problems down the line if somebody decides to use Ogham letters to encode numbers or the other way around.