There is an "official point of view" that Cyril and Methodius brought literacy and writing to the Slavs.
Is this so? It turns out that it is not so. By the time the brothers came to the Slavs, the Slavs already had a written language. In the life of "Saint" Cyril it is said that passing through Chersonesos-Korsun Tauride as part of the embassy to the Khazars, Constantine saw there the Gospel and the Psalter, written by "Russian letters."
Young Constantine compared the letter with the familiar to him, distinguished between vowels and consonants, and soon read fluently in a language that was new to him, which surprised him as a miracle of God. Thus, at the very beginning of Cyril's life, the Rus had a written language.
What kind of writing did the Slavs have? Verb
Cyril and Methodius invented the Cyrillic, shredding the Glagolitsa and adapting the Slavic letters to the Greek Alphabet - so as not to squirm and rewrite the Bible in a letter that is inconvenient for a Greek.
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The question immediately arises - maybe the Glagolitic alphabet is less ancient than the Cyrillic alphabet?
Not at all. Research has been carried out (fortunately, Glagolitic is still written in some villages in Croatia) and it has been established that there is not a single fact in favor of the fact that Cyrillic is older than Glagolitic. Of the dated monuments of Slavic writing that have come down to us, the oldest is written in Glagolitic. There are Cyril manuscripts, which, by undoubted signs, are copied from the Glagolic originals. The language of the Glagolic monuments is much older, much more archaic than the language of the Cyril monuments.
The Cyrillic alphabet was created around 863 by Cyril and his brother Methodius on the orders of the Byzantine Greek emperor Michael III, a fanatical Judeo-Christian.
Since the translation into a new language for them (Slavic Glagolitsa) and the rewriting of a huge book by hand could take up to 20 years, then, apparently, to make it easier to copy, distribute and read Bible texts in his empire, Emperor Michael III issued a decree on the ordering of writing Slavic peoples that were part of the Byzantine Empire. Well, that is, it is simpler - about cultural genocide - when the Slavs took away their native writing and forced to write in a new foreign language.
There is a direct and clear dependence of the Cyrillic alphabet on the Glagolitic alphabet: Cyril and Methodius replaced the verbal letters with Greek letters known to them, similar in sound, and some of the Glagolitic letters that they did not understand were simply thrown out. As a result, a little more than 30 letters remained in the Cyrillic alphabet, and the original Glagolitic alphabet contained more than 46 characters.
The Slavs, including the Eastern ones, reached a high development of the tribal system in the first half of the 1st millennium AD. e. The emergence of the Slavic writing of the type "Devil and Rezov" should probably be attributed to this time.
This conclusion is also confirmed by linguistic data. As many researchers have noted, the words 'write', 'read', 'letter', 'book' are common for Slavic languages.
Consequently, these words, like the Slavic letter itself, probably arose before the division of the common Slavic language into branches, that is, no later than the middle of the 1st millennium AD. e.
This argument applies not even to Glagolitic, but to the primary pictographic writing.
So the Slavs had a written language already in before 500 AD. e. at least, but in real life much earlier.
In 1848, Russian philologist II Sreznevsky wrote: "The peculiarity of many Glagolic letters has long led to the conclusion that the Glagolitic alphabet is the ancient alphabet of the pagan Slavs and, therefore, is older than the Cyrillic alphabet …"
In 1766, Count Klemens Grubisich published in Venice a book with a very interesting title "In originem et historiam alphabet Slavonic Glagolitici, vulgo Hieronymiani disquisitio" (Origin and history of the Glagolic Slavic alphabet, study of the Vulgate of Jerome). Grubisich claims that Glagolitic was compiled long before the birth of Christ, based on the Getae Runes (Getae - Eastern Goths, Slavs, self-name Drevlyans).
Around 1640 Raphael Lenakovich wrote the dialogue De litteris antiquorum Illyriorum, in which he says much the same as Grubisich, but almost 125 years earlier.
Considering what Herodotus, Grubisich and Lenakovich wrote, it turns out that the Glagolitic alphabet was composed long before the Nativity of Christ and, therefore, is much more ancient than the Cyrillic alphabet. From all of the above, it becomes clear that the history of Glagolitic alphabet is completely different from what historians imagine it to be. But for some reason these and many other facts stated above are completely ignored by Christian historians.
Back in 972, some official documents in Russia were written by Glagolitsa, since Svyatoslav was an ardent enemy of Christianity, and Cyrillic was an exclusively Christian letter.
Wilhelm Postell in his work "Linguarum XXII characteribus dinerentium alphabetum" added to all this that I. von Hahn found among the Albanians an alphabet attributed to the Albanian Buthakukyc, very similar to the Glagolitic.
It is believed that this alphabet was introduced in the 2nd century. during the Christianization of the Albanians.
In the preface to the Novgorod manuscript copied from the ancient Glagolic manuscript of 1047, it is said: "As a favor to me to write a book of si and kurilotse." Signature - "Prophet Ghoul Dashing". That very eloquently reflects the attitude of the writer to the Cyrillic alphabet.
Palimpsests, manuscripts on parchment or papyrus, in which the old text has been washed off or scraped off, and a new one is written on top of it, also indicate the great antiquity of Glagolitic alphabet. On all the surviving palimpsests, the Glagolitic alphabet has been scraped off and the new text is written in Cyrillic. There is not a single palimpsest in which the Cyrillic alphabet has been scraped off and the Glagolitic alphabet is written in it.
Texts corresponding from the Glagolitic script to the Cyrillic alphabet contain chronological errors in the dates, since the numerical value of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic letters does not coincide.
Cyrillic numeric values are oriented towards the Greek alphabet …
Also, this version is confirmed by the found biblical manuscript of the 5th century, the origin of which is unknown. This manuscript was originally written in Glagolitic, but then the Glagolitic was scraped out and on many sheets of this manuscript a translation of 38 homilies of St. Ephraim the Syrian in Greek. Thus, the document received the name "rewritten code of Ephraim" and began to be considered Greek.
All these facts indicate that the "saints" Cyril and Methodius committed a purposeful act of cultural genocide of the Slavs. Destruction of NATIVE writing, destruction of chronicles, substitution of all concepts, Intentional destruction of the NATIVE memory of the Slavs …
Moreover, the Greek language is a modified descendant of the Russian Glagolitic alphabet.
Sometimes, in order to understand some phenomena and cause-and-effect relationships, you need to look at the issue from a different angle, look where others are not looking. According to the official fairy tale, the good Cyril and Methodius came to the wild Slavs and, on the basis of the Greek language, made us an alphabet, in which there were 46 letters.
I am surprised that no philologist has ever noticed the most obvious fact that it is impossible to create a new language with 46 letters from the Greek language, which has 27 letters, no matter how hard you try. You don't need to be seven spans in your forehead to understand that the Russian language is primary in relation to the Greek just because it has more letters, even in the modern utterly truncated version.
And so I found a qualitative confirmation that the Greek language is one of the forms of the Slavic language on a par with Etruscan and Phoenician.
These are coins of the Bosporus Kingdom - the ancient state of the Azov and Black Sea regions.
By the way, Vasily Savromatov, whom we have already examined, was one of the rulers of the Bosporus kingdom. The most interesting thing on these coins is the letters. Aleksey Zayats suggested that these are the dates of the reign of the kings, written in letters. And his assumption was fully confirmed - if you read from right to left according to the numerical designation of the drop caps, a very definite date comes out. For example, on the top coin - Firth Izhei Glagoli - that is, 513, on the middle - Firth Izhei Zemlya - 517, and on the lower - Firth Kako Az - 521. It turns out that these dates have long been deciphered and are considered "years of the Bosphorus era" - the chronology of the Bosporan kingdom, where the date of 297 BC is taken as a starting point.
And so I found an interesting catalog of Bosporus, Greek and Roman coins of 1910
After him, I finally came to the conclusion that there were no Hellenes and Latins, real Hellenes and Latins reigned in Rome only in the 16th century, and there was one people, fair-haired, light-eyed, but this is a topic for a separate article, large and full, since the material has been collected already quite a lot.
So, there is given the letter designation of the recording of numbers in the Bosporus kingdom. We see Greek letters.
But after all, in Russia, they wrote not in numbers, but in letters!
As you can see, the "coincidence" is 100 out of 100, except that the initial letter "Worm" looks like the modern English "Q" - "Q". This knowledge allows a completely different attitude to the Latin "Q", because if you replace it with "Ch", then the words are read in Russian! Examples:
Qui - What (Chuy)
Quadi - officially Quads, tribes living north of the Danube - Chudi (or Chud)
Quadra - square (Chdr without vowels, d on t - four)
Quadrigae - quadriga (four hectares)
Quasi - as if, exactly; how, like how; about, almost, about (Hours)