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The Celtic year was based on thirteen lunar months which were
named after trees and plants. According to the Brehon Law of Ireland,
these trees corresponded to the Ogham alphabet and had three
categories: chieftains, peasants and shrubs. The rankings were
based on the symbolic importance of each.
The Ogham or sacred Druidic alphabet contained hidden secrets for
divination which only the initiated fully understood. The Celts
had a kinship with trees which is shown in the correlation between
this alphabet and their tree calendar. In Celtic the word for
oak was Duir and the words Derwydd or Duirwydd
(oak-seer) were probably the origin of the word Druid.
[Chieftains] II [Peasants] II [Shrubs]
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"Three impossible mixtures until the world's doom :
that ogham and pillar be blent together, that heaven and earth be blent together, that sun and moon be blent together"
Celtic Proverb
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