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have posed and not settled, recorded with what would actually resolve it and which
expertise the answer needs.
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only what it is sure of implies a confidence it has not earned, and the gaps are often where
the interesting work is. Several sit exactly where two fields fail to meet: identifying the
hyssop of the Hebrew Bible needs a botanist and a philologist of Biblical Hebrew, and neither
one settles it alone.
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Orders, Societies & Movements 15
Aurum Solis
Did the Aurum Solis exist before its officers began publishing in the 1970s, and were Charles Kingold and George Stanton real men?
Open Aurum Solis
Why It Is Open The 1897 founding and both founders' names rest on the order's own account and on nothing else that has been produced. No lodge record, no correspondence and no third party notice of either name from the period has come to light, and no scholar has argued the point either way, so this is an absence rather than a disagreement.
What Would Settle It An archival search for the two names in English civil registration, probate and census returns for the period, together with a search of the surviving papers and membership rolls of the English occult lodges of the 1890s, and, if the order will open them, its own pre-1971 papers. Any one of the three would move the question.
Expertise Needed Archival history; history of Western esotericism
Question posed in
Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton.
Church of Scientology
Which Spanish decision entered the Church of Scientology in the Registry of Religious Entities, and on what date?
Open Church of Scientology
Why It Is Open Accounts of a 2007 decision of the Audiencia Nacional are consistent with one another but every readable one traces back either to the organisation's own publications or to aggregators repeating them. The judgment itself was not obtained during this run, so the claim was kept out of the entry rather than asserted on that footing.
What Would Settle It The text of the judgment from the Spanish judicial documentation service, or the registry entry from the Ministry of Justice, either of which would fix the court, the date and what was actually ordered.
Expertise Needed Law (Spanish administrative and ecclesiastical law)
Question posed in
Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Edition.
Church of Scientology
On what date, and with what legal effect, was the Church of Scientology registered as a religious entity in Portugal?
Open Church of Scientology
Why It Is Open Two dates circulate for the same event, September 2007 and November 2007, and the sources carrying them are the organisation's own material and secondary summaries. The registration number quoted in those accounts was not checked against the Portuguese register.
What Would Settle It The entry in the Portuguese register of collective religious entities, or the United States Department of State International Religious Freedom report for Portugal read in full rather than in summary.
Expertise Needed Law (Portuguese religious registration under the 2001 Religious Freedom Act)
Question posed in
Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Edition.
Church of Scientology
Why did the Internal Revenue Service reverse its position and grant exemption in 1993?
Open Church of Scientology
Why It Is Open The closing agreement was not published by the agency and its reasoning has never been set out on the public record. Reporting in 1997 raised the question of how the reversal came about without settling it, and the agreement's own terms were reported rather than officially released.
What Would Settle It Release of the agency's internal deliberative record, or a completed freedom of information action producing the file behind the decision rather than the agreement alone.
Expertise Needed Tax law and administrative history
Question posed in
Scientologists' Deal With IRS: $12.5 Million, The Seattle Times.
Church of Scientology
Do German state offices for the protection of the constitution still observe Scientology after the federal announcement of 15 May 2026?
Open Church of Scientology
Why It Is Open The announcement was made at federal level and concerned listing as a standalone nationwide intelligence target. Several German states ran their own observation from 1997 and their current position was not established by this run.
What Would Settle It The current annual reports of the state offices for the protection of the constitution, in particular those states that began observation in 1997, or a statement from the interior ministries of those states.
Expertise Needed Law and public administration (Germany)
Question posed in
Germany Ends Decades-Long Surveillance of the Church of Scientology, KTLA.
Modern Revivals 13
Birch (Beth)
Do Robert Graves's specific letter-to-month tree pairings in the 13-sign Celtic tree calendar correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Birch (Beth)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Rowan (Luis)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of rowan at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Rowan (Luis)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Ash (Nion)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of ash at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Ash (Nion)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Alder (Fearn)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of alder at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Alder (Fearn)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Willow (Saille)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of willow at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Willow (Saille)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Hawthorn (Uath)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of hawthorn at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Hawthorn (Uath)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Oak (Duir)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of oak at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Oak (Duir)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Holly (Tinne)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of holly at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Holly (Tinne)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Hazel (Coll)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of hazel at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Hazel (Coll)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Vine (Muin)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of the vine at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Vine (Muin)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Ivy (Gort)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of ivy at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Ivy (Gort)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Reed (Ngetal)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of reed at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Reed (Ngetal)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Elder (Ruis)
Do Robert Graves's tree pairings in the thirteen sign Celtic tree calendar, and the placing of elder at this position, correspond to anything beyond his own argument in The White Goddess?
Open Elder (Ruis)
Why It Is Open Graves built the thirteen sign sequence in The White Goddess, 1948, by pairing his own reading of the Beth-Luis-Nion tree names to a thirteen month lunar calendar he reconstructed himself. That the wider tree calendar is his modern invention rather than an attested ancient system is not in dispute, and the tree names match because he took them from Ogham. What nobody has examined is the step after that: whether placing a given tree at a given calendar position reflects anything in the surviving Ogham material, or only his argument. No Celtic studies scholar has tested his month by month assignments either way, which is why this is an unfilled gap rather than a disagreement between camps. One question covers all thirteen signs, because the pairing is one act rather than thirteen.
What Would Settle It A philological comparison of Graves's month-by-month tree assignments against the Ogham letter-name glosses preserved in the Auraicept na nEces and the Briatharogam tracts, by a scholar of medieval Irish, to establish whether any assignment beyond the shared name is supportable.
Expertise Needed Celtic studies, medieval Irish philology
Question posed in
A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus.
Tarot, Runes & Number 12
Angel Prayers Oracle Cards
Who illustrated Kyle Gray's Angel Prayers Oracle Cards?
Open Angel Prayers Oracle Cards
Why It Is Open No illustrator is credited on the creator's own product page, the publisher's listing, or any retailer listing checked. Kyle Gray's later decks in this registry, credited to a named illustrator, make the silence here look like an omission rather than a genuinely uncredited work, but that could not be confirmed either way.
What Would Settle It The deck's own guidebook or box, examined directly, or a publisher catalogue record naming the illustrator.
Expertise Needed Publishing history
Question posed in
Angel Prayers Oracle Cards (astrologyandangelmediums.com review, citing Hay House edition), Kyle Gray.
Angel Therapy Oracle Cards
Which artist or artists illustrated Doreen Virtue's Angel Therapy Oracle Cards?
Open Angel Therapy Oracle Cards
Why It Is Open Multiple independent reviews describe this deck's artwork as compiled from several different artists rather than one credited illustrator, and no source checked, the publisher's own listing or Aeclectic Tarot's review among them, names any of the contributors for this specific title.
What Would Settle It The deck's own guidebook, examined directly, since compiled-artwork Hay House oracle decks typically credit each contributor inside the booklet even when retailer listings do not.
Expertise Needed Publishing history
Question posed in
Angel Therapy Oracle Cards, A 44-Card Deck and Guidebook (Amazon listing), Doreen Virtue.