Anyway, does all this sound reasonable to you?
This is what the slavs know. (Translated)
[In the middle of the 19th century, the Slavs moved away from Christian thought, due to the lack of church books in their own language. Cyril and Methodius therefore compiled the first Slavic alphabet and translated the first books into the first Slavic literary language.
Cyril and Methodius are known as the "first teachers" of Slavs, and today they are celebrated as national apostles and saints in all Slavic countries.
The first book that the Slavs received in their own language was the "Bible" translated by Cyril and Methodius. The main reason for this was, as Stojan Novaković wrote, that "the Greek and Bulgarian Slavs, not having church books in their own language, began to return to idolatry." Therefore, Cyril and Methodius gave the Slavs literacy, so that they would understand Christian thought.
The holy apostles of the Slavs, Constantine (827-869) and Methodius (?-885) were born in Thessaloniki. Methodius was first in military service, after which he managed the Slavic region of the Greek Empire for a while, and then he became a monk on Olympus.
Methodius' younger brother, Constantine, grew up at court, together with Emperor Michael III. That's where he got most of his education and knowledge. He had the opportunity to hold high government jobs, but he turned to spirituality because of his love for science.
Constantine was first the librarian of the church of Saint Sophia, after which he left Constantinople and followed in the footsteps of his brother Methodius. He became a monk and received the monastic name - Cyril. He began his apostolic ministry at the age of 24. Then, at the request of Emperor Michael III, he went to the Slavic lands, which occupied all of Hungary, old Pannonia and the Danube region.
Emperor Mihailo III assigned Cyril and Methodius the mission of educating the Slavic people, who at that moment began to move away from Christianity. They composed the first complex Slavic script - the Glagolitic alphabet, and wrote translations of the most necessary church books with it, especially the "Bible", in a language that Slavs from all over the world could understand.
AND AFTER CYRIL, CYRILIC
The mission of Cyril and Methodius was extremely successful in Bulgaria, which is why they received an invitation from the Moravian prince Rastislav, who also wanted his people to listen to the church service in their own, Slavic language. Namely, Rastislav had a big problem with the influence of the Frankish clergy on the Slavic population, which is why he tried to preserve the cultural identity of his subjects by using the Slavic alphabet and church services in the Slavic language.
After a three-year stay in Moravia, Cyril and Methodius went to Pannonia, to the court of Prince Kocelj, to introduce him to their work on Slavic church literature. After Emperor Michael III died, they did not return to Constantinople, but headed to Rome. There the Pope gave support to two missionaries in the fight against the disobedient Frankish archbishops. Cyril, however, fell ill in Rome and soon died from the consequences of a serious illness. His work was continued by Methodius, together with his students.
A lot of time has passed since then. Slavic literature, written in the language founded by Cyril and Methodius, lived as such for a long time and spread to the right to the Zeta littoral, to the left to Bulgaria, and even reached Constantinople itself. Thus, Cyril and Methodius began a great undertaking of literacy for all Slavic people, which their students and followers continued for centuries after their death. They united all Slavic peoples with words: How Cyril and Methodius gave the Slavs a letter.
In the middle of the 19th century, the Slavs moved away from Christian thought, due to the lack of church books in their own language. Cyril and Methodius therefore compiled the first Slavic alphabet and translated the first books into the first Slavic literary language.
Cyril and Methodius are known as the "first teachers" of Slavs, and today they are celebrated as national apostles and saints in all Slavic countries.
The first book that the Slavs received in their own language was the "Bible" translated by Cyril and Methodius. The main reason for this was, as Stojan Novaković wrote, that "the Greek and Bulgarian Slavs, not having church books in their own language, began to return to idolatry." Therefore, Cyril and Methodius gave the Slavs literacy, so that they would understand Christian thought.
MISSION OF LITERACY OF SLAVS
The holy apostles of the Slavs, Constantine (827-869) and Methodius (?-885) were born in Thessaloniki. Methodius was first in military service, after which he managed the Slavic region of the Greek Empire for a while, and then he became a monk on Olympus.
Methodius' younger brother, Constantine, grew up at court, together with Emperor Michael III. That's where he got most of his education and knowledge. He had the opportunity to hold high government jobs, but he turned to spirituality because of his love for science.
Constantine was first the librarian of the church of Saint Sophia, after which he left Constantinople and followed in the footsteps of his brother Methodius. He became a monk and received the monastic name - Cyril. He began his apostolic ministry at the age of 24. Then, at the request of Emperor Michael III, he went to the Slavic lands, which occupied all of Hungary, old Pannonia and the Danube region.
Emperor Mihailo III assigned Cyril and Methodius the mission of educating the Slavic people, who at that moment began to move away from Christianity. They composed the first complex Slavic script - the Glagolitic alphabet, and wrote translations of the most necessary church books with it, especially the "Bible", in a language that Slavs from all over the world could understand.
AND AFTER CYRIL, CYRIL
The mission of Cyril and Methodius was extremely successful in Bulgaria, which is why they received an invitation from the Moravian prince Rastislav, who also wanted his people to listen to the church service in their own, Slavic language. Namely, Rastislav had a big problem with the influence of the Frankish clergy on the Slavic population, which is why he tried to preserve the cultural identity of his subjects by using the Slavic alphabet and church services in the Slavic language.
After a three-year stay in Moravia, Cyril and Methodius went to Pannonia, to the court of Prince Kocelj, to introduce him to their work on Slavic church literature. After Emperor Michael III died, they did not return to Constantinople, but headed to Rome. There the Pope gave support to two missionaries in the fight against the disobedient Frankish archbishops. Cyril, however, fell ill in Rome and soon died from the consequences of a serious illness. His work was continued by Methodius, together with his students.
A lot of time has passed since then. Slavic literature, written in the language founded by Cyril and Methodius, lived as such for a long time and spread to the right to the Zeta littoral, to the left to Bulgaria, and even reached Constantinople itself. Thus, Cyril and Methodius began a great effort to educate all the Slavic people, which their students and followers continued for centuries after their death.
TRACES OF GLAGOLIC IN SERBIAN CYRILLIC
"If you ask Greek writers, saying: 'Who wrote your letters or translated the "Bible" and at what time', few of them know. If you ask Slavic writers, saying: 'Who wrote your letters or translated the Bible', everyone knows that and answering they say: 'Saint Constantine the Philosopher, called Cyril, he wrote letters for us and "the Bible was translated, and Methodius, his brother: because those who saw them are still alive", are the words of Crnorisca the Brave, a medieval monk and writer, student Cyril and Methodius.
The Slavic alphabet has been twofold since its inception. Cyril composed the Glagolitic script, the shape of which was extremely difficult to write, which is why shortly after that he began work on a new script, the so-called Cyrillic script. During his lifetime, he did not finish the work on the Cyrillic alphabet, so his students completed what he started
Of the 38 letters that the original Glagolitic alphabet had, only one was included in the new alphabet, the Cyrillic alphabet. It is the letter "Ш". The letter "Š" comes to us from the Semitic alphabet and was most often used in originally Slavic words, although in numerous original Old Testament expressions the letter "S" was found instead of the letter "Š".
Later, when Vuk Stefanović Karadžić reformed the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, another Glagolitic sign was added to the alphabet. It is the sign "đ". In preserved Glagolitic monuments, it appears only in foreign words, mostly of Greek origin, such as "evangelje" ("gospel"). For example, until the letter "đ" was introduced into the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, the word "građanin" ("citizen") was written as "gradžanin" ("citizen").
Words such as 'priest', 'municipality', 'righteous' and similar are living witnesses of the connection of today's language with the era of Cyril and Methodius. By creating the first Slavic alphabet and the first Slavic literary language, Cyril and Methodius laid the foundation for an independent Slavic culture.
SLAVIC SCRIPTURE BEFORE CYRIL AND METHODIUS
It is clear from the above that the Slavic alphabet got its specific form in the second half of the 9th century. However, it cannot be said that the Slavs before the appearance of Cyril and Methodius did not know how to express their thoughts through letters.
For example, the famous German chronicler Titmar, in the epic of Marzenburg, testifies that he saw several Slavic idols in the polytheistic food of the city of Retra and that his name was written on each of them with special signs. Even Crnorizac Hrabar, whom we quoted a little earlier, said that the Slavs used to read and write using special dashes and cutouts.
Unfortunately, the form of that early Slavic script has not been preserved, or even described in detail in the works of writers of that time. Many scientists, however, claim that they were runes and assume that the Slavs wrote with the signs of people from their neighborhood. Thus, the Slavs, accepting Christianity, began to express the sounds of their language with Greek and Latin letters, depending on whether Christianity came to them from Byzantium or from Rome.]
All I know personally from my life experience and that of my family lineage is that the slavic genes/bloodline are a thorn in the side of the PTB. The 'serbs' have been denied any existence before the 7th century and yet our script, the old slavic version, has been found as far as England before the Romans.
FWIW