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Ogma

American  
[og-muh] / ˈɒg mə /

noun

Irish Mythology.
  1. a god of poetry and eloquence and the inventor of the ogham letters: one of the Tuatha De Danann.


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And as he was going across the plain he saw three armed men before him, that were the three sons of Tuireann, son of Ogma.

From Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory

It was in this battle Ogma found Orna, the sword of Tethra, a king of the Fomor, and he took it from its sheath and cleaned it.

From Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory

When the life of the visible world is hushed, they say, there is another life in the hidden, where the Dagda Mor and Ogma and Lug and Angus still guard the De Danaan hosts.

From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston

The Scandinavians honoured Odin as the first cutter of the mysterious runes, and the Irish derived their ogham from the sacred Ogma of the Tuatha de Danaan.

From The Story of Books by Gertrude Burford Rawlings

"That is no use to us; we have a champion before, Ogma, brother to the king."

From Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory

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