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Bulgarian Sacred Script (The Slavic Chapter ) - Part 1

            More than thousand years ago, Bulgarian Medieval author Chernorizets Hrabar wrote  an inspiring praise of Slavic alphabet , “О писмєньхъ” (An Account Of Letters ). There he gives quiet brief outline of the history of Slavic writing. “Прѣжде ѹбо словѣне не имѣхѫ писменъ · нѫ чрътами и рѣзами чьтѣхѫ и гатаахѫ погани сѫще · кръстивше же сѧ · римьсками и гръчьскыми писмены · нѫждаахѫ сѧ словѣнскы рѣчь безъ устроениа " (Kuev K. 1967) ( Before, the Slavs did not have books, but read and divined by means of strokes and incisions, being pagan. Having become Christian, they had to [write] Slavic language using Roman and Greek letters without order) .Those lines has been commented many times, but the mysterious Slavic pagan writing was never found. Some Russian researchers seek those “ чрътами и рѣзами ” ( strokes and incisions)  in Crimea where according to his hagiography,  St. Cyril  were shown “ Роусьские письмена ”(Chernyh P. 19...