> >> On Wed, 23 Mar 1994, E.E.Willis E - Mail Address wrote: >> >> >as trivial as this may seem, I am curious...... I have an on-line friend wit >> >the handle" Huath Duilleoga" that she claims is Celtic/Old Briton from an >> >ancient Celtic pagan tree calender. If anyone can help me and has the time , >> >I would like to know what this name means and how to pronounce it. >> >> Any time you see a phrase like "ancient Celtic pagan tree calender", loud >> warning bells should be going off in your head. There was an Irish >> tree-name mnemonic for the letters of the Ogham alphabet, but I've never >> run across anything similar in the Brythonic languages (which means >> nothing, of course). My guess would be that this "means" whatever the >> modern author who invented it wants it to "mean", and similarly that it >> is pronounced however he/she intends it to be pronounced. >> >> cynically yours, >> >> Heather Rose Jones > >Very wise advice. However, (h)Uath is indeed the Irish name of the Ogam letter >for H, though (h)Uath does not seem to be the name of a tree. (See Patrick >Sims-Williams, `Some problems in deciphering the early Irish Ogam alphabet', >in _Transactions of the Philological Society_ 91.2 (1993), 133-180; with refs >to the literature on Ogam and the names for its letters.) > Huathe does represent the Ogam H, and in the system of divination known as the "The Celtic Tree Oracle" (Liz and Colin Murray, Stoddart pub. 1988) the letter H or Huathe is used to represent the hawthorn. Hope this clears up the confusion, Miriam from Montreal.