Palimpsest - how they erased a verb and wrote Cyrillic over it

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Language and writing determine the peculiarity of the thinking and even the worldview of the people. Native history allows the people to be independent and independent, and to follow their own historical path.

Thanks to the Christian Church, we are well aware that the ancient past of the Slavic and Russian ancestors was dark and dense. No writing, no culture. And only thanks to Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Slavs were able to take the true path, and finally merge into the enlightened Greco-Roman civilization.

We know that Cyril, at the request of the Moravian prince Rostislav, created two whole Slavic alphabets, Cyrillic and Glagolitsa. But there was something wrong with the verb, and as a result, everything was wiped out in Cyrillic. There are many ancient books where an outright palimpsest was revealed - the erasure of Glagolic texts and writing Cyrillic texts over them.

At the same time, there is no reliable evidence that Cyril invented the verb. There are only references in various chronicles of later authors, so they even sinned on the verb that it is obscurantist writing.

They said that the Gothic letters were invented by a certain heretic Methodius, who in this very Slavic language wrote a lot of falsehood against the teachings of the Catholic faith …

The information that the Slavs did not have their own written language is based only on one document of a certain monastic Khrabra. But that's why the Arab and Persian historians of the ninth century in their writings claim that the Slavs even taught the Khazars their writing, concluded political and trade agreements in their own language, and the Arab Al-Masudi wrote that he saw amazing prophecies written in the "Russian" language. An obvious mismatch arises.

Due to the increased interest in ancient Russian history, many pseudo-scientific theories have appeared about the origins of Russian writing. But let's leave them alone. Considering that I am not a linguist, I asked professional university linguists with questions about the origin of Glagolitic alphabet. Alas, there is no consensus on this issue, if only because there are very few surviving sources of Glagolitic. BUT, experts have pointed out several interesting points.

Firstly, for many centuries in Europe there was a runic script, which was used, including the Bulgarians and Hungarians. Accordingly, thanks to active trade and cultural ties, the Russians definitely had to know the runic letter and use it.

Secondly, the truth is likely to be on the surface. You just have to look at the runic letter, and then at the verb and … Voila! The connection with runic writing is visible to the naked eye. Also, the Glagolitic alphabet is technically similar to the ancient Georgian writing. In general, this is something original, which has absorbed the manifestations of different cultures. By the way, very in Russian)

The Slavs were a people who were tolerant and open to cultural exchange, did not suffer from the mania of messianism, like the same Greeks and Romans.

What is the conspiracy?

If you read the letters of Catholic bishops addressed to the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and Roman pontiffs, even for the 10th and 11th centuries, written in Latin, then the true intention of the preachers becomes clear. A striking example of the task of the bishops is the last phrase in a letter to Emperor Otto II Brun, a Catholic preacher who was canonized.

I sincerely continue to serve as a zealous intercessor for your benefits

That is, he served not faith, not Christ, but the benefits of the emperor. Brun lamented very much that in the vastness of Europe, where pagans everywhere, who worship their "devil", do not spit. The teachings of Christ were accepted with difficulty, since if the people converted to Christianity, they had to become in fact a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Roman Empire showed itself well in cultural hypocrisy, for while the Romans were pagans, then Christians were wild heretics, and as the teachings of Christ prevailed, then the pagans turned into heretics.

Accordingly, the unhurried but methodical conversion of the Slavic peoples to Christianity demanded the destruction of the foundations of the native Slavic culture. And what could not be destroyed was attributed to the Christian church and its ascetics. Therefore, the Glagolitic alphabet was created by Cyril and Methodius. Christianity, let it be Catholicism or Orthodoxy, had the most important political lever - the spiritual justification of the legitimacy of power and subordination: the Tsar is the Tsar for that, since power was given to him from God and he is the son of God (even if he is a fool). In paganism, this could not work, because there was a different understanding of the world order. Actually, all the power of Christianity lay in church dogmas, the sword and the destruction of the alien. Alas, already several centuries after its inception, the church seemed to have forgotten the main tenets of the teachings of Christ and became "a zealous advocate of benefits."