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These words, written in the 9th century by the Bulgarian Chernorizet monk Brave, are now often quoted and interpreted as evidence that the Slavs did not know writing before the missionary activity of Cyril and Methodius.
But is this what Brave is talking about? Even in this evidence, it is indicated that the Slavs had a certain writing of “features and cuts” (that is, runic writing).
And we know that Velesovitsa and Boyanovitsa part of their signs resemble the Greek or Latin alphabet, which is not surprising, because these alphabets have a single source (Pelasgian or Etruscan writing or more ancient writing systems). It is about this writing that the Brave speaks here.
And what did the Thessalonica brothers themselves do? Why is Cyril and Methodius credited with the honor of creating Slavic writing? Why from them, that is, from 863, when they began to preach in Moravia, do the Slavs begin the countdown of their written history and culture and still celebrate the days of these Christian preachers? Not so long ago, by decision of UNESCO, 863 was recognized as the year of the creation of Slavic writing.
The reason for this is ideological. This is also stated in the tablets of the “Book of Veles”: “They (the Greeks) said that they established a written language with us so that we would accept it and lose our own. But remember that Cyril, who wanted to teach our Children and had to hide in our Houses, so that we would not know that he teaches our writings and how to offer sacrifices to our Gods ”(Trojan C 2:12).
This text of the tablets means that the Greek Constantine himself (in baptism Kirill), according to his life (“Pannonian Life”, IX century), in fact, even before the “invention of writing” studied in Chersonese (Russian Korsun) Slavic letters from a certain Rus.
“He found here (in the Room) the Gospel and the Psalter, written in Russian letters, and found a man speaking that language, and talked with him and understood the meaning of that speech, comparing it with his own language, distinguished between vowels and consonants, and, making a prayer God soon began to read and expound (them), and many were surprised at him praising God ”(Quoted from the book “Tales about the beginning of Slavic writing” . M., ‚ 1981) .
On May 21-22, in the city of Russian Glory, Sevastopol, events were held dedicated to the day of Slavic writing and. Good music sounded, interesting and not very poems, a lot of handicrafts and paintings were presented. Warm words were spoken from the stage to Saints Cyril and Methodius, about how good they are and what a great deed they did. At the same time, about what in fact did these saints, “for some reason” they “forgot” to tell people.
We decided to correct this "little" oversight and handed out leaflets with some real historical facts showing what we actually did. As it turned out, people present at the events were very interested in this information! Many, having read the leaflet, came and asked for a few more copies for their friends ... However, there were also funny situations when representatives of God's chosen people, who in essence are a guest on our land, heard a snake hiss, and their obvious dissatisfaction with the fact what we convey to people the truth.
As it turned out, many already know that before Cyril and Methodius, there was a written language in Russia. But what then is the merit of these "saints"? After all, we are constantly told that it was they who brought writing to. So, first things first.
There is a lot of evidence that there was writing in Russia long before Cyril and Methodius. Moreover, the writing of our ancestors was more complexly organized and developed than it is now. Also important is the fact that Russia was completely literate - everyone could read, count, write - from a peasant to a prince.
Here are some facts to support this claim:
- “The Slavs had a letter long before the birth of Christ,” - Catherine II.
- “Truly, the Slavs long before Christ and the Slavic-Russians actually had a letter before Vladimir, as many ancient writers testify to us ...”, - Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev.
- IN Ancient Russia almost every peasant was literate! And Novgorod birch bark letters, which, in fact, are letters ordinary people, confirmation of this! And in medieval Europe, many kings and representatives of the nobility could not read and write at all ...
“... The Orthodox Church preserves in its history, in its Tradition, the wonderful names of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius ... They came out of the enlightened Greco-Roman world and went preaching to the Slavs. And who were the Slavs? These are barbarians, people speaking in an incomprehensible language, these are second-class people, they are almost animals. And so enlightened men went to them, brought them the light of Christ's truth and did something very important - they began to speak with these barbarians in their language, they created the Slavic alphabet, Slavic grammar and translated the Word of God into this language ... "
At first glance, the statement of Patriarch Kirill may seem strange and even shocking, but if you thoroughly understand everything, it will become clear whose side he is on and what religion carries in itself ...
Recall that in the process of "baptism" for 12 years of forced Christianization, with rare exceptions, almost the entire adult population was destroyed. Kievan Rus. This is confirmed by the facts that have come down to us. If before the "baptism" on the territory of Kievan Rus there were 300 cities and 12 million inhabitants, then after the "baptism" there were only 30 cities and 3 million people! 270 cities were destroyed! 9 million people were killed! (Diy Vladimir, "Orthodox Russia before the adoption of Christianity and after").
Who is hiding the truth from us and why?
The facts show that in Russia many types of writing originally existed. And Cyril and Methodius not only did not create anything, but, on the contrary, successfully carried out a special operation to impoverish and simplify the Russian language, depriving the Old Slavonic alphabet of nine most important images of Russian initial letters. The purpose of this sabotage (otherwise you can’t say it) was to translate the Bible for the Slavs, in the name of which, subsequently, any manifestations of the original Slavic culture were purged.
Thus, it is more logical to call this day - Day of the destruction of Slavic writing and culture. This is much more in line with the point.
Indeed, in fact, Cyril and Methodius laid the foundation for the destruction of Slavic writing and culture. But this process continues after them, and what is happening now is a clear confirmation of this.
All of the above, as well as many other facts, unambiguously confirming that our ancestors had a written language and a high culture long before Cyril and Methodius, are well known to modern historians and linguists. However, you won't find them in history books! Facilities mass media also diligently hush up this topic.
Why it happens?
Who is behind the imposition on us of the unconfirmed idea that writing, and with it the light of knowledge, was not brought only by Cyril and Methodius?
What goals do they pursue?
The answer is obvious. Patriotically minded people who really care about their homeland will not impose such an idea on us, since, firstly, it is not true, and, secondly, it is essentially destructive for the state. So this idea can inspire us only enemy, and an information war is being waged against us. Enemies want to deprive us of knowledge about the great past of our people. The knowledge on which the national identity of the Russian people is based, which is very necessary for us. And in return, they slip us such fakes that are destructive for us, like what he said.
Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin said: "A people without national self-consciousness is manure on which other peoples grow."
This is exactly what the enemy wants from us, he wants to turn us into a herd of rams that know nothing and do not understand, constantly busy getting pleasure and serving their physiological needs. Baranov, who, having opened their mouths, will blindly believe any nonsense said by the "authority", like the one that the patriarch gave out ...
“Sons of Russia - throw off the obsession!
Wake up, Russians - greatness awaits you!
And shining Russia will throw off the fetters,
and will find greatness again!
(Nikolai Viktorovich Levashov, Sleeping Russia)
According to the decision of UNESCO, 863, the first year of the stay of Cyril and Methodius in Moravia, is recognized as the year of the creation of the Slavic alphabet.
At the same time, it is considered well-known that earlier the Slavs had no other letter.
Although this opinion was not substantiated by anyone, it has long turned into an undeniable dogma.
Scientific journals did not accept articles for publication that proved the existence of letters among the Slavs before Cyril and Methodius. The authors of such works were looked upon as charlatans in science, like the inventors of a perpetual motion machine.
But after all, the idea of a perpetual motion machine contradicts the law of conservation of energy and matter, which is valid for all mechanisms and machines without exception.
And the hypothesis of the existence of Proto-Slavic writing absolutely does not contradict anything, except that it does not agree with the idea of the alleged general backwardness of the Slavs in comparison with other peoples. But this is more politics than science. Science must operate with objective facts and documents.
In the process of working on the book "Language in the natural sciences and high school”(Mn., 1999) I completely unexpectedly discovered that the question of pre-Cyrillic writing was raised already at the time of the invention of the Slavic alphabet. Who, if not the students of Cyril, knows better than others how the Cyrillic alphabet (or Glagolitic) was created.
So, they, in the “Pannonian Life” (Cyril), claim that Cyril, long before he “created the alphabet, visited the Crimea, Karsun (Chersonese), and brought back the Gospel and the Psalter, set out in Russian letters.”
Information about books from Karsun is contained in all 23 lists of the "Life", both East and South Slavic.
It has now become known from Arab sources that already in the 40s of the 9th century. among the Eastern Slavs there were baptized people, it was for them that sacred books were written in Russian letters. The diploma of Pope Leo IV (Pope from 847 to 855) is known, written in Cyrillic before its “invention”.
Catherine II in her “Notes on Russian History” wrote: “... the Slavs of ancient Nestor had a written language, but these have been lost and have not yet been found, and therefore have not reached us. The Slavs had a letter long before the birth of Christ.
Pavlenko N.A. in the fundamental monograph “History of Writing” (Mn., 1987), he discusses six hypotheses of the origin of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, and argues that both the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets were among the Slavs in pre-Christian times.
Russian historian of the 19th century Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Fine Arts Klassen E.I. noted that “Slavic Russians, as a people educated earlier than the Romans and Greeks, left many monuments in all parts of the Old World, testifying to their stay there and to ancient writing, arts and enlightenment. The monuments will forever remain indisputable evidence…”.
The numerous names of Slavic tribes and their settlement over large territories are mentioned in the book of the Belarusian Archbishop Georgy Koninsky “History of the Russes or Little Russia”, published at the beginning of the 19th century.
Soviet historians had very limited access to foreign repositories of rare books, museums and other sources of information.
Many valuable monuments of writing were unknown to them. The poor awareness of Soviet historians and linguists in matters of Proto-Slavic writing is convincingly shown in the book by Lesnoy S. “Where are you from, Rus?” (Rostov-on-Don, 1995).
Information about the presence of some kind of letter among the Slavs in the pre-Cyril era is contained in the works of the Arab authors Ibn Fodlan and El Massudi, the Persian historian Fakhr ad Din and other scientists and travelers. In the "Legend of the Letters" of the Bulgarian monk Chernorizet Khrabr, who lived at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries, it is mentioned that the Slavic runic letter was used: "Before, the Slovenian did not name books, but with features and cuts to chtyahu and reptile, the trash of existence."
Indeed, there are no books or large works written in runes. These are mainly inscriptions on tombstones, on road signs, on weapons, ceramic utensils and other household items, on jewelry, coins, rock inscriptions. They are scattered throughout Scandinavia, Denmark, England, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Greenland and even on the Atlantic coast of America.
In the science of runes (runology), Scandinavian, Germanic and some other runes are distinguished. It is believed that the Slavs did not have runic writing. Perhaps because of this, the achievements of runology are very modest.
Many inscriptions are declared incomprehensible, unreadable, mysterious, mysterious, magical. They can only read supposedly some ancient names of people, the names of clans, about which nothing is known now, meaningless spells.
Therefore, a real discovery in the history of the language was the results of many years of work by the senior researcher of the Department world history Russian Physical Society Grinevich G.S., which showed that already 7 thousand years ago the Slavs had an original letter, which filled the Terterian inscriptions (5 millennium BC), proto-Indian inscriptions (XXV-XVIII centuries BC), Cretan inscriptions (XX-XIII centuries BC), Etruscan inscriptions (VIII-II centuries BC), the so-called Germanic runes and ancient inscriptions of Siberia and Mongolia.
For decades, venerable runologists did not allow G.S. Grinevich’s articles to be published, which can in no way be explained by concern for the development of modern historical science. Now there is an opportunity to get acquainted in full with the discovery of Grinevich G.S. according to his two-volume monograph “Proto-Slavic writing. Results of deciphering” (vol. I, M., 1993, vol. II, M., 1999) and a large review “How many millennia of Slavic writing (On the results of deciphering Proto-Slavic runes)” (M, 1993).
The first years of their scientific activity Grinevich G.S. devoted to collecting inscriptions, filled with a letter of the type "features and cuts", published in various, sometimes hard-to-reach publications. In total, 150 inscriptions on objects found in the territory of the settlement of the Eastern and Western Slavs and dating back to the 4th-10th centuries were accepted for consideration. AD At this time, the Slavic languages still differed little from each other ...
The greatest achievement of Grinevich G.S. was the reading of the letter of the Phaistos disc (Fr. Crete, XVII century BC), which had previously been the subject of unsuccessful study by scientists around the world.
From the inscription (241 signs in total) it follows that the lynx tribe (i.e. Slavs) was forced to leave their land to the “lynx”, where much suffering and grief fell to their lot. Lynx found a new land in Crete. The author of the text calls to protect and protect this land. This corresponds to the historical data on the exodus of Trypillians from the Dnieper region at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC.
Some of the 2,000 known Etruscan texts have also been deciphered and it has been shown that they were written in Proto-Slavic syllabary. The Etruscans once inhabited the Apennine Peninsula and created the oldest civilization on it, many of whose achievements were inherited by the Romans and other peoples of Europe.
The so-called "Germanic" runic inscriptions have been read, the ancient script of Siberia and Mongolia has been deciphered.
With the advent of Cyrillic writing among the Slavs, syllabic writing fell out of wide use, but did not disappear completely, but began to be used as cryptography.
Grinevich G.S. cites and deciphers several examples of secret writing, namely the secret writing of the princes Baryatinsky (1675), in which uncle Osip Fedorovich, betraying the tsar, calls on his nephew Mikhail Petrovich to support the struggle of Ukraine for its independence.
Cast-iron signs in the fence of the Sloboda Palace in Moscow (the building of the Moscow Higher Technical School named after N.E. Bauman), meaning that “Hasid Domenico Gilardi has the cook Nicholas I in his power”; the inscription on the wall of the room where Emperor Nicholas II and his family were killed. It stands for: “You are the slaves of the neti”, i.e. you are the slaves (servants) of Satan.
The text on the label attached to the main relic of the Knights Templar - two cranial bones stored in a large head of gilded silver was also deciphered ...
Discovery of Proto-Slavic syllabic writing and decoding a large number texts can not only significantly enrich the history of the Indo-European languages, but also have a huge impact on the development of the history of the ancient peoples of the world.
According to Grinevich, the Proto-Slavs were involved in the creation of the most ancient cultures: Vincha-Turdash, Trypillians, on the island of Crete, on the Apennine Peninsula (Etruscans), in Siberia, Mongolia and other places.
Although this is an extraordinary finding, it is not entirely new. The very fact of the existence of numerous Proto-Slavic tribes was known and talked about long before Grinevich.
The names of Klassen E.I., Georgy Koninsky, Arab and Persian authors were mentioned above. Let's refer to one more very authoritative and solid source.
Archimandrite of Ragusa Mavro Orbini (MR Orbini) in 1606 in Italy published a book translated into Russian by decree of Peter I in 1722 under the title “The book of history-writing of the beginning of the name, glory and expansion of the Slavic people and their Tsars and rulers under many names and with many Realms, Kingdoms and Provinces."
Based on the study of numerous historical sources, M. Orbini claims that the Slavic “people embittered almost all peoples in the Universe with their weapons; he ruined the Crossing, owned Asia and Africa, fought with the Egyptians and with the great Alexander; conquered Greece, Macedonia.
Illerian land; took possession of Moravia, Shlensky land, Czech, Polish and the shores of the Baltic Sea, went to Italy, where he fought against the Romans for a long time. In this book, in particular, the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 is accurately described.
Many unusual statements can be found in older sources. Everyone knows The Lay of Igor's Campaign. But not everyone knows that another monument of the early Christian period has been preserved. The pagan (it is more correct to say: “Vedic”) poet Slavomysl wrote the poem “The Song of the Beating of the Jewish Khazars by Svetoslav Khorobre”.
The poet, in particular, claims that such prominent Greeks as Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Democritus, Herodotus, and others were of Slavic origin.
“Great is the list of the names of the Greeks, the Slavs hiding, in it, by the way, also at one time Aristar and the Syracusan Archimedes, Svarogia, who read the tablets and knew the movement of the bodies of the Svarogs.” (Svarog among the Slavs is the only heavenly god, the grandfather of the gods, he is also Triglav, the Trinity, the Universe).
The ancient Greeks of all these most worthy and wisest Slavs (or semi-Slavs) “God-likes were erected into Hellenes and their faces were recreated in stone statues. Not embarrassed that the guise of gods is the Scythians-barbarians "...
Shortly speaking, traditional history of the ancient peoples of the world needs to be revised, since it is not consistent with large amounts of old and new information ...
The notion that the Slavs received their writing from Cyril and Methodius, and until that time they did not have their own letter, is today refuted by so many scientific facts, archaeological finds, written evidence dating back to the most ancient times that there is no doubt: all these ideas were deliberately introduced to the rank of historical truth.
In fact, ancient Slavic writing calculates its age in tens of millennia.
Even Catherine II in her notes unequivocally stated that "the Slavs had a letter long before the birth of Christ." And to the credit of the enlighteners themselves, Cyril and Methodius did not hide the fact that they took long-existing writings as a basis. True, they did not know how long. Here it is worth quoting Konstantin himself, who claimed that in the Crimea (in Chersonesos) fate brought him together with one Slav, from whom he “found there a list of the Gospel and psalms written in Russian (“Russian writings are written”), and he found a man speaking this language, and spoke with him, and understood the meaning of what he was saying, and, adapting his language to his own dialect, he made out the letters, both vowels and consonants, and, praying to God, began to read quickly and speak Russian” (“Large Life of Constantine (in monasticism Cyril) the Philosopher”).
Modern linguistic analysis shows that both Vedic Sanskrit, and Eastern hieroglyphs, and ancient Egyptian writing, and ancient Greek, and indeed all modern alphabets are compiled on the basis of Proto-Slavic writing.
Add to this the following Interesting Facts:
· Back in 1812, Derzhavin published two runic passages that were long considered fake, and only today it turned out that the published texts are unique monuments of pre-Cyrillic writing.
· The discovery in 2000 in Novgorod of an analogue of a wooden book (the Novgorod Psalter) was also a scientific sensation.
· A pre-Cyrillic text was also found under the conditional name “extensive edition of the Boyanov hymn” (Ladoga document). It turned out that the Russian runic was quite widespread.
· In 513 B.C. the king of the Scythians challenged Darius to battle with a "swearing letter."
By the way, the words: write, writing are common to all Slavic languages, and for Sanskrit (write, write - “write”), that is, it has a Proto-Slavic root.
· According to Herodotus and other writers and philosophers, the Scythian tribes were literate, and the Greeks themselves adopted the alphabet from the Pelasgians, a people also of Scythian (Slavic-Russian origin).
· The Arab traveler Ibn Fadlan, who visited the Volga Bulgaria in 921, describing the burial of the king of the Russians, testifies that the name of the king was written on a “white tree”.
· The Persian historian Fakhr ad-Din (700s) wrote that the Khazar writing comes from Russian.
· Ibn al-Nadim also reports pre-Cyrillic inscriptions.
«Russian letters. I was told by one, on the veracity of which I rely, that one of the kings of Mount Kabk [Caucasus] sent him to the king of the Rus; he claimed that they had writing carved into wood. He also showed me a piece of white wood, on which there were images, I don’t know if they were words, or individual letters, like this.
All these points concern only a relatively small time period. In fact, writing, and far from being the only one, has existed among the Ancestors since time immemorial. There were several forms of writing, depending on what needed to be conveyed in a written message. If we systematize everything that is known today on this topic, we get a rather detailed picture.
Slavic writing: initial letter, Glagolitic alphabet, runes, features and cuts, trags.
All of the above are different forms of writing, but an important fact should be noted: once upon a time, all these forms existed (more precisely, coexisted) together, within a single time period.
Most of our contemporaries, most likely, will confidently classify the initial letter, Glagolitic alphabet, features and cuts as part of the concept of “Slavic writing”. Runes and tragi will be named only by specialists and those who are specifically interested in this topic. Meanwhile, runic stones, ancient runic calendars and many other archaeological finds are found throughout our country, leaving no doubt that this form of writing was once widespread in this territory.
The time has come, at least in general terms, to get acquainted with the different forms of ancient Slavic writing.
initial letter (Holy Russian letter ) is the direct predecessor of our current alphabet, but unlike it, each of its symbols carries an Image. At one time, it was most widely used among the ancient Slavs. It was used when signing inter-clan and larger contracts, subsequently the initial letter, due to its relative simplicity, was used to record knowledge that needed to be widely disseminated. The Holy Russian letter is often called Velesovitsa today.
Glagolitic was considered a business, "trade letter". Various registers, agreements, calculations - the most common area of its use. Some trading people moved to other countries so that children could learn to read and write and not forget where they came from, legends, tales, fairy tales, epics were translated into the Glagolitic alphabet. This form of writing was widespread especially in the southern Danubian territories (long before Cyril and Methodius).
Features and cuts This is the Slovenian folk script. It was used to convey some short messages (what we call a note today). Birch bark letters are a typical example of such a letter. Birch bark proved to be a fairly durable material. The recently discovered Novgorod birch bark letters are well preserved and today demonstrate a high level of literacy and its widest distribution among Novgorodians (even six-year-old children corresponded).
Runes (Ha'Aryan script ) belonged to the priestly writings. The collection of runes (Karuna) served as the basis for the ancient Indian Vedic language - Sanskrit, as well as Devanagari (body language, dance performed by female priestesses). Karuna was used by the priestly class of Daaria and Belovodye. In a simplified form, the runic script was used by the Slavs, who settled in Scandinavia, Iceland, and practically throughout the entire European territory, which then bore the name of Venia.
Traghi (Da'Aryan letter ) is a rather complex form, including a combination of cryptographic and multidimensional hieroglyphic images.
It became the basis of the Cretan-Mycenaean cryptogram and the hieroglyphic writing of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and later - Ancient China, Korea, Japan.
figurative-mirror (Rasenskoe ) letter. A secret form of information transfer, which was composed using mirror reflections of the text. At the same time, the message could be read in all directions. On its basis, Etruscan writing arose in Erturia ( Tyrrhenian), which could be read only using different forms of Slavic writing. The ancient Phoenician alphabet also arose from a simplified form of the Rasen script, which marked the beginning of the Greek script and Latin. Rasenskoe the letter was distributed in Scythia.
The knowledge of the Ancestors was recorded on stones, metal (most often gold) plates ( Santia), scrolls of parchment ( Harati), wooden planks ( Boards), ceramic vessels. This Wisdom has been preserved for thousands of years. Part of the Sacred Books of the Ancestors has survived to this day. Today, a number of researchers come to the conclusion that Slavic writing, as well as the culture and language of the Proto-Slavs in general, served as the basis of Eurasian culture as a whole, and also gave impetus to the development of the language and writing of most of the ancient civilizations known to us.
