scripts

Recently in Glasgow I've seen a few young people wearing teeshirts with printed designs of what was (to me) an unfamiliar variation upon a recognisable ancient letterform system, the Ogham (the pre-runic fashion of stave writing. Instead of what I was aware of ie Oghams in just a straight line...

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The mayans were not the first to create written language. Scientific evidence has shown that Runes, or the Elther Futhark (I dont know if thats the correct spelling) was the first and oldest form of language. It is still used today to create magic books and scripts.

Can you believe I'd never heard of this until a few weeks ago when I was doing some (proper, historical) research on John Dee, and found it mentioned in a footnote, dug up a lot of info about it on the web. One ot the most fascinating things I've ever heard of, anyway, so I thought I'd ask...