ᚁ Beith — birch / lungs
Purification and breath
Modern neo-pagan Ogham tables commonly place Beith, the birch letter, with the lungs and the act of purification through breath. The chest anchor is an editorial focus for that symbolic association, not a medieval anatomical prescription.
Point 1 of 15 in Celtic Ogham — tree-letter body correspondences
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Auraicept na n-Éces (primary_canonical)
Supports the Beith letter/tree tradition, not a canonical lung map.
Damian McManus, A Guide to Ogam (scholarly_modern)
Controls the letter reading; the lung and purification association is a modern neo-pagan synthesis.