All of the letters of our alphabet can be found in one powerful symbol.

Before showing how each letter can be formed, let’s first explore the symbol. Here it is in its most basic form.

This is the 8-spoked wheel. It is of incredible spiritual and religious significance for different peoples around the world.

It marks the 8 festivals of the turning of the year for pagan Celts.

Basing itself on this deep and mysterious connection between the Source of our individual lives and the source of the life of the planet, Druidry recognises eight particular times during the yearly cycle which are significant and which are marked by eight special festivals. Of these eight times, four are solar and four are lunar – creating thereby a balanced scheme of interlocking masculine and feminine observances. The solar observances are the ones that most people associate with modern-day Druids – particularly the Summer Solstice ceremonies at Stonehenge. ~ druidry.org

It is sometimes known as the Taranis Wheel:

The name Taranis derives from the Celtic (or Indo-European) root ‘taran’ meaning thunderer or thunder. A bronze figurine was found in Le Chatelet, France and is dated to the 1st to 2nd century BCE. It shows a wise, patriarchal being holding a lightning bolt and a solar wheel. As one who grew up in the Western traditions, this figure is almost instantly recognizable as Jupiter, only the solar wheel giving away the fact that this is a Celtic and not a Roman figure. ~ druidry.org

It is the wheel of Dharma for Buddhists, representing cycles of reincarnation and the 8-fold path of enlightenment. It’s a wheel for steering your ship through life.

The Buddha was the one who “turned the wheel of the dharma” and thus the wheel symbol is the Dharmachakra, or “wheel of law.” The Tibetan term for this symbol, chos kyi’khor lo, means “the wheel of transformation.” ~ religionfacts.com



If it was not clear enough yet, the wheel almost always represents the sun.

Another connection between the chariot wheel and the sun is seen with the Greeks, with Apollo carrying the sun in his chariot.

The symbol can be seen alongside the Assyrian sun god Shamash.

It is seen in St. Peter’s “Square” in the Vatican.

And on some “light of the world” symbols.

The letters for IXOYE have been shown to derive from the 6-pointed (Icthys) wheel.

But you will see they can easily be formed with the 8-pointed wheel as well.

There’s much, much more that could be said about this symbol’s history and significance, but the point of this article is to show you how all of the letters of our alphabet can be derived from it.

I added a few well-known symbols at the end. This all just dawned on me, so there are no other fancy graphics or videos (yet), just a computer print out with my crude markings. Some of the letters could be formed in a few different ways, such as the E looking like the one seen in the IXOYE image previously.

Do you think this is all a coincidence? I don’t. Many of the letters are perfectly formed, and none of them are even “questionable” or a stretch of the imagination. I honestly cannot believe this did not come to me, or anyone else, sooner. Perhaps others have already revealed how our letters emanate from the sun wheel, but I cannot find any clear precedent in my searches.

However, I did get a few very interesting tweets after I posted the alphabet on Twitter.

Instead of telling you what you ought to think about this all, I would like to ask you to let me know what you think. Is the sun-wheel the true basis of our alphabet? If so, who did the crafting and why? Who knows about this today and why would they keep it secret from the rest of us?

Please let me know in the comments.