Were 460 years added to the official chronology?

So any local officer of some far-flung area can mint a few coins and all of a sudden he's an emperor! Another data point that there seems to be a certain bias (dare I say, even an agenda) among academics to try to 'discover' as many Roman 'emperors' as possible.
Were concomitant reigns eventually reinterpreted into sequential reigns? If so, it could account for some "extra" centuries.
 
So any local officer of some far-flung area can mint a few coins and all of a sudden he's an emperor!

Yes, was there not some minting of coin and forgeries well cited in history - Charlemagne coinages speaks of mint rollouts, and why not stamp out a few emperor coins along the way to help fill historical gaps, protect usurpers and generally muddy the waters.

Were concomitant reigns eventually reinterpreted into sequential reigns? If so, it could account for some "extra" centuries.

Laura's FPtM showed many group and individual parallels, overlaps and separation - and outright inventions, so yes, more than likely.
 
Were concomitant reigns eventually reinterpreted into sequential reigns? If so, it could account for some "extra" centuries.

In a similar way, archaeologists had discovered 2 coins of the emperor Domitian (called Domitian II by convention to distinguish him from the other emperor Domitian). The first coin was discovered in France in 1900 and was initially considered a fake. Then, a second coin was discovered in Oxfordshire in 2003. He is now considered a Gallic usurper for a short period around the year 271. Like the emperor Sponsian, the existence of these characters is only possible thanks to the chance discovery of a few rare coins. There are other examples of the same kind. One can imagine that other "unknown" emperors are likely to be identified.

Indeed, it is not that these emperors are fictitious but that the chronological sequencing is misleading. It also seems to me that it might be necessary to distinguish the status of "Augustus" and emperor, which are confused by historians. It seems that at a certain point, the Empire no longer had an Augustus (or else several simultaneous Augustuses), that is to say a supreme commander who directed the whole Empire. The centralization of power in Rome was shaken and the distribution of power was regionalized in a chaotic way.

Before the establishment of the tetrarchy and the reign of Constantine, there is indeed a huge historical "void" and one can hypothesize that many emperors lived simultaneously and that some later decided to mask this period of disorder and anarchy in order to create a linear and legitimate sequence of power transmission. However, I have never really been able to determine where the simultaneity begins and ends. In fact, we can perceive a "chronological dilation", especially in view of the lack of material evidence, but surprisingly we are unable to separate the true from the false in written history. Each hypothesis systematically meets insurmountable problems...

Moreover, even the official history does not really hide the disorder of the Empire with this endless succession of emperors and usurpers who kill each other. Thus, the exact motive of the fraud seems to me sometimes elusive...
 
To me, the focus on “was this 460 year addition true” is less interesting than the ramifications of what was the catalyst for that 460 year glitch and what followed after.

Was it just ignorance, was it just forgotten and miss-figured in the aftermath or actually an intentional obfuscation?

if the plague of Justinian was an effect of a cataclysmic reset of some sort and signified the end of the Roman Empire, then what of our blurred history after that?”

How and with whose help did humanity rebuild? The histories and narratives of the dark ages into the renaissance are perhaps more sketchy than the last few hundred years of Roman history. If so, why? What is missing or added afterwards?

I love it when the narrative goes something like “the development of the wheel then naturally led to the Ferrari.” Or from the Black Death to Caravaggio and Chaucer. Quite the turnaround without a lot of transitional detail as I recall my study of history.

I realize this is a vector away from the thread title but it flows directly from conjecture assuming “if true, then what?”
 
The historical sequence will be a big mysteries if the addition of years is true.

From the death of Caesar to the AD 536 cataclysm is roughly 100 years but @Nostradamus suggests that there are well dcomented histories until Maracus Aurelius son , who was born after 230 years Caesar death. The statue of Commodus still looks complex compare to the later Roman period (wiki). Would it mean that Roman Empire was still in sort of good shape after the cataclysm for more than 100 years until they got hit by another one?

Sometimes I was thinking if the cataclysm during Justinian is really happened in AD 536. At least I find another date (AD 564) for the cataclysm from a transcript that only appeared in the article of Jupiter, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and the Return of the Mongols Part 4

Q: (L) I have discovered that three of the supernovas of antiquity which have been discovered and time estimated by the remnants, occurred in or near Cassiopeia at very interesting points in history.
A: Yes…
Q: (L) Well, one of these periods in history was around 1054. This is a very interesting time. It just so happens that there are no European records of this supernova which was recorded by the Chinese, Japanese, and perhaps even the Koreans. Yet, there are no European records. What happened to the European records?
A: Europe was in a “recovery mode” at the “time.”
Q: (L) Recovery from what?
A: Loss of civilized structure due to overhead cometary explosion in 564 AD.
Q: (L) What effect did this have on the civilized structure? Was it a direct effect in terms of material, or did it have effects on people causing them to behave in an uncivilized and barbaric way?
A: Well, the burning fragmentary shower ignited much of the land areas in what you now refer to as Western Europe. This had the results you can imagine, causing the resulting societal breakdown you now refer to as “The Dark Ages.”
Q: (L) Well, it damn sure was dark. There is almost a thousand years that nobody knows anything about!
A: Check Irish or Celtic, and French or Gallic records of the era for clues. There were temporary “islands of survival,” lasting just long enough for the written word to eke out.
100 years after Caesar will be the reign of Nero. 130 years after Caesar will be the reign of Domitian.

As we know later on for some reasons, the Roman make a new capital in Constantinople, where they set up Senate and also carry on the Cura Annonae (the free bread welfare) just as it was in Rome. In the later time the Roman only survive in the East. It is interesting that Cs said Justinian I was the last Roman Emperor but we know that the Roman Empire continued as what we now called Byzantine Empire. Their neighbor at that time also called them Roman. Historian from Byzantine time did have record about their history, which is preserved in Codex Mutinensis graecus 122. You can find a list of Roman Emperors with portraits there. The list is almost identical with the modern wiki list ( List of Roman Emperors ) without the late Western Roman Emperors.

The latest session also has an interesting comment about the Roman period.
Q: (seek10) B.R Ambedkar hypothesized that Brahmanical switch from obsessive beef eating to cow worship is part of the counter revolution against Buddhists (100 BC - 400 AD). Is this close to the reality of what happened?

A: Close, yes.

Q: (seek10) If so, are there any contribution of cosmic events that caused the Black Death in the West and was responsible for this cow scarcity that Brahmins used against Buddhists?

A: Yes. Very insightful. Roman Empire also fell and Europe burned at that time also.
 
Sometimes I was thinking if the cataclysm during Justinian is really happened in AD 536. At least I find another date (AD 564) for the cataclysm from a transcript that only appeared in the article of Jupiter, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and the Return of the Mongols Part 4
Thanks for brining this up, had forgotten about that excerpt of the transcripts. The cometary event and volcanic eruptions that led to widespread devastation in Europe in 536 AD are well documented, but not much is said about 564 AD. Assuming there wasn't much of a civilisation left in Europe at the time, it's no surprise though.

I had a look at the historical records and found a few mentions of a comet appearing around 563-566 AD. Astronomer Pingré lists the following in his Cométographie p.322 (translated from French, added sources in square brackets):

563* - [Gregory of Tours] A comet, whose tail or ray resembled a sword, appeared for a whole year. Lubienietzki, Zahn, Struck, think it sufficient to read, for a whole month.

565 - [P. Gaubil/Mailla] In the first year of Tien-toung, on the day of Gin-Ju, the sixth moon (August 4), a Comet was seen in China in Ventchang (of the Great Bear): its tail was only a few tenths of a degree long. It went to the constellation Goey (of Aquarius, Pegasus): its tail was then 10 degrees long. After a hundred days of appearance, the comet was in the constellation Hiu (of Aquarius, the small Horse). Fr. de Mailla makes this Comet appear from the fourth Moon.

566 - [Gregorio Abul-Pharajio/Marius of Avenches] In the second year of the reign of Justin the Younger, a fire, throwing a long flame, appeared towards the Arctic pole and lasted a year. Marius also speaks of this phenomenon; but he gives it only seventy days' duration, which is more likely. He relates it to the year 566, but he puts Justinian's death in the same year: now, Justinian had died on 14 November 565, the fourteenth indiction. This indiction, among the Greeks, was begun in September 565.

The * is Pingré's way of saying that the comet observed and assigned to that year is most likely the same comet observed in another year and wrongly dated. In this case, he is associating the 563 comet with the ones observed later. The one recorded in 566 by Gregorio Abul-Pharajio is itself likely to have been observed first in 565 since Marius of Avenches states that it appeared the same year that Justinian died, the year having started 1 September 565. It's possible that all 3 records, including the one from the Chinese report first observed in August 565 describe the same cometary event which lasted between a couple of moths and a year. Yeomans lists the 565 comet from Chinese records as one of the great comets in history.

The confusion regarding the year described by Gregory of Tours likely stems from the section in which he describes a series of events spanning ca. 563-571 without giving dates, which recounts some very interesting portents, including a tsunami triggered by a massive landslide near Lake Geneva (dated 563), "multiple suns" and a comet lasting a whole year which preceded the plague that killed a substantial part of the population in many French towns (dated 571).

Book IV - Section 31
Now a great prodigy appeared in the Gauls at the town of Tauredunum, situated on the river Rhone. After a sort of rumbling had continued for more than sixty days, the mountain was finally torn away and separated from another mountain near it, together with men, churches, property and houses, and fell into the river, and the banks of the river were blocked and the water flowed back. For that place was shut in on either side by mountains and the torrent flowed in a narrow way. It overflowed above and engulfed and destroyed all that was on the bank. Then the gathered water burst its way downstream and took men by surprise, as it had above, and caused a loss of life, overturned houses, destroyed beasts of burden, and overwhelmed with a sudden and violent flood all that was on the banks as far as the city of Geneva. It is told by many that the mass of water was so great that it went over the walls into the city mentioned. And there is no doubt of this tale because as we have said the Rhone flows in that region between mountains that hem it in closely, and being so closely shut in, it has no place to turn aside. It carried away the fragments of the mountain that had fallen and thus caused it to disappear wholly. And after this thirty monks came to the place where the town fell in ruins and began to dig in the ground which remained when the mountain had fallen, trying to find bronze and iron. And while engaged in this they heard a rumbling of the mountain like the former one. And while they were kept there by their greed the part of the mountain which had not yet fallen on them and covered and destroyed them and none of them was found. In like manner too before the plague at Clermont great prodigies terrified that region. For three or four great shining places frequently appeared about the sun and the rustics used to call them suns, saying: "Behold, three or four suns in the sky." Once on the first of October the sun was so darkened that not a quarter of it continued bright, but it looked hideous and discolored, about like a sack. Moreover a star which certain call a comet, with a ray like a sword, appeared over that country through a whole year, and the sky seemed to be on fire and many other signs were seen. In the church at Clermont while the morning watches were being observed at a certain festival, a bird of the kind we call lark entered, flapping its wings above the lights, and so swiftly extinguished them all that one would think they had been taken by the hand of a single man and plunged into water. The bird passed under the veil into the sanctuary and attempted to put out the light there but it was prevented from doing so by the doorkeepers and killed. In the church of the blessed Andrew another bird did the same with the lighted lamps. And presently the plague came, and such a carnage of the people took place through the whole district that the legions that fell could not be counted. For when sepulchres and gravestones failed, ten or more would be buried in a single trench. Three hundred dead bodies were counted one Sunday in the church of the blessed Peter alone. Death was sudden. A wound the shape of a serpent would appear on groin or armpit and the man would be so overcome by the poison as to die on the second or third day. Moreover the power of the poison rendered the victim insensible. At that time Cato the priest died. For when many had fled from the plague he never left the place, but remained courageously burying the people and celebrating mass. He was a priest of great kindliness and a warm friend of the poor. And if he had some pride, thus virtue I think counterbalanced it. But the bishop Cautinus, after running from place to place in fear of this plague, returned to the city, caught it and died on the day before Passion Sunday. At that very hour too, Tetradius his cousin died. At that time Lyons, Bourges, Cahors, and Dijon were seriously depopulated from this plague.
Looking at temperature reconstruction from tree rings, one notices a marked drop in temperature in 566 which substantiates the remark made in Pingré's entry about the comet appearing towards the Arctic pole.

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In summary, it does look like a large comet was seen in 565-566 AD, although with all the portents happening at the time, one cannot exclude a cometary explosion the year before too as some records may have been confounded with time. It sure wasn't a pleasant time to live in.
 
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As mkrnhr posted above, Gunnar Heinsohn's work sheds quite a bit of light on these missing years. I think I missed that author's work until it was posted in the Procopius, "Secret History" thread, but wow does it have some fascinating observations in its pages.

As Laura mentioned in SHOTW and FPTM, there are doublets in the New and Old Testaments that show interpolations and overlays. Gunnar Heishon has found the same thing between Justinian and Diocletian as well as Domitian.

The same Persian/Parthian emperor shows up with the same name (Khosrow) centuries apart - and multiple times!

From GH:

There is almost nothing known about the 2nd/3rd c. Narses of the Severans. The Khosrow of the same period would be completely
unknown if he hadn't left coins. But even these coins are doubtful. They could also belong to a Khosrow (89-128 CE) of the time of
the Roman emperors from Domitian (81-96 CE) to Hadrian (117-138 CE).

If the coins of the Severan Khosrow belong to the Khosrow of the 1st/2nd century, the question arises whether the sources about the
Severan Khosrow were used up for the Khosrow of Justinian. The emperor would then have taken over not only the jurists, but also
the Persian opponents of the Severans. If the Khosrow of the Severans is none other than the Khosrow of Justinian his coins should
differ from those of the 1st/2nd c. Khosrow. The complications do not end here because the Severan Khosrow resembling Justinian’s Khosrow (531-579 CE) also resembled the Khosrow (591-628 CE) in the time of Mauricius (582-602 CE), Focas (602-610 CE), and Heraclius (610-641).


I think this is some telling evidence. The same named Parthian emperor is used over and over again - with the exact same coins?

I think it was in SHOTW that Laura suspected that the destruction of Rome's infrastructure couldn't have been done by mere "barbarians" and that something more extreme was going on.

From GH:

Both rulers (Diocletian and Justinian) are connected to events in Rome. There, however, no apartments, kitchens, latrines, water pipes or roads were built between the 230s CE and the 930s CE (Heinsohn 2018b). From a stratigraphic point of view, therefore, all events placed in Rome that are textbook dated between the 230s and the 930s CE must be followed by a question mark. Personalities and deeds from this
period must be accommodated in such a way that they can be linked to the unquestionable period in which Rome was alive and
building. All narratives and persons which are now distributed over 930 years must be accommodated within just 230 to 240 years.


As mentioned in earlier posts in this thread - coins are key. I think this section from GH defines the issue very well:

Chronological overlaps that indicate simultaneity do not exist only within Late Antiquity (e.g. between Anastasius and Justinian or
between Justinian and Heraclius etc.). They range from the 2
nd to the beginning of the 10th century CE. The coin finds of Raqqa, for
example, which stratigraphically belongs to the Early Middle Ages (8th-10th century), also contain imperial Roman coins from
Imperial Antiquity (1st-3rd century) and Late Antiquity (4th-7th century). Coins of Roman Emperors found in 8th-10th c. CE strata of Raqqa
that disappeared under sand in the 930s CE (Heidemann 2008).

Archaeologists are particularly confident of correctly dating finds from 1st millennium excavation sites when they find coins
associated with them. A coin-dated layer is considered to be of utmost scientific precision. But how do scholars know the dates of
the coins? From coin catalogues!

How do the authors of these catalogues know how to date the coins? Not according to archaeological strata, but from the lists of Roman emperors. But how are the emperors dated and then sorted into these lists? Nobody knows for sure. One may know well established sequences of imperial dynasties (Julio-Claudians, Flavians, Antonines, Severans etc.), that can
also be confirmed stratigraphically. But nobody knows a stratigraphy in which the
coins of the West Roman and East Roman emperors of the one thousand years of the 1st millennium are found in superimposed layers.

Since the excavators
– seduced by the seemingly hundred percent certainty of the coin dates – trust these more than their own stratigraphic findings, they conclude from coins of – for example – the “2”nd as well as the “5”th century in one and the same settlement layer that their houses were inhabited not only in the “2”nd, but also still in the “5”th century, although nothing has changed in the buildings and not even repairs are detectable for the 300 years in between.

Some really amazing finds, in my opinion. Civilization collapses with little or no ability to mint coins (why bother? 80% of the population is gone. Just use the old ones lying around) so they get hoarded by the survivors/barbarians - whomever. And by the 9th or tenth century they're all left together in various places. Talk about confusing the issue of imperial timelines.

The "Tours" group misreading Greek and Latin text fragments combined with hordes of "imperial" coins spanning multiple dynasties all end up in the same place. It makes sense how the C's mentioned that if there are any "villains" (manufacturing history) it may just be the ones at the beginning and the end of the "Dark Ages". IE: the Flavians and the Carolingians. It sure puts "Dark Ages" into context. It's as if nothing worked and there was no ability to create any continuity for centuries in the west.
 
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
 
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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


thank you for this text. i was in armenia and i admired their literacy and culture.
 
The following thread is split off from this discussion about a 'planetary alignment' in early 2022.

Informed by Laura's biblical research and recent sessions with the Cs, it appears that as many as five centuries may have been 'added' to official chronology - specifically, between the end of the Roman Empire (whenever exactly that was) and the beginning of the Middle Ages.

With a view to researching and discussing this possibility, the following thread opens with the latest chapter from Pierre's new book, Mass Extinctions, Evolutionary Leaps, and the Virus-Information Connection, which is being published as it is written, here.


Here is part of chapter 19 which deals with 460 added years:

Chapter 19: Society before and after both plagues​



Social conditions before plague of Justinian​


The years before the advent of the Plague of Justinian were marked by the worst tyranny imaginable. I extensively described the situation in a previous book[1]. A few words from Belisarus might suffice to sum up the nature of Justinian and his regime:

That Justinian was not a man, but a demon, as I have said, in human form, one might prove by considering the enormity of the evils he brought upon mankind.[2]
The Nikka riots ca. 532 AD might illustrate the deleterious socio-political context under Justinian’s reign. These were the most violent riots in the history of Constantinople, with half of city being destroyed and thirty thousand rioters killed[3].

Only four years later, a cometary event ca. 536 AD and its consequences, including the Plague of Justinian almost obliterated Europe.

Social and civilizational conditions after the Plague of Justinian

Extensive studies of the available evidence show that, during the 6th century A.D., any kind of human activity beyond basic survival vanished. Furthermore, between the 7th and the 9th centuries, human activity in the Roman Empire was virtually inexistent:

Houses: Building regressed from numerous elaborate stone houses to scattered wooden shacks.[4]

Metal: This flourishing industry during the Roman Empire ceased to exist. It was only during the 16th Century – a full 1,000 years later – that the level of industrial activity prior to the fall of Rome would be once more attained.[5]

Pottery: Widespread and elaborate products became very rare and progress stagnated so much that it’s impossible to distinguish 7th-century ceramics from those produced two centuries later.[6]

Ecclesiastical buildings: The very few churches built during this period were more than ten times smaller than the 4th-century St. Peter’s Basilica of Rome.[7] Only the cathedrals of the 11th century would attain similar sizes.

Farming and warfare: profound stagnation in both these fields for three centuries.[8]

Coinage: Sharp drop in the quality and quantity of coins in most regions of the Empire.[9]

Written documents: almost totally absent for three centuries.[10]

Soon after the last plague outbreak, after more than two centuries of survival and stagnation, civilization re-emerged around 800 AD with a renewed vitality. This period of blooming cultural activity is called the Carolingian Renaissance:

During this period, there was an increase of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, jurisprudence, liturgical reforms, and scriptural studies.[11]
The most salient effect of the Carolingian Renaissance was a moral regeneration, which is interesting because, at the time, lack of morality and ‘divine wrath’ (for example, in the form of comets and/or plagues) were closely associated[12]:

[The Carolingian Renaissance] had a spectacular effect on education and culture in Francia, a debatable effect on artistic endeavors, and an unmeasurable effect on what mattered most to the Carolingians, the moral regeneration of society.[13]
Most are familiar with the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius, which buried Pompeii and Herculaneum overnight.


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The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum


The most well-known eyewitness account of the eruption was not written by Pliny the Younger, as is generally believed, but much later in 1498, by Giovanni Giocondo[14], who claimed to have found Pliny’s original letters in Paris. Unfortunately, the original letters no longer exist.[15] what Giocondo found, and what he claimed to have found, are different in any way? Notice also that some other works by Giocondo are marked by controversy.[16] [17] [18]
Spewing ash, Vesuvius spewed a deadly cloud of ash and gases at 1.5 million tons per second, and to a height of 33 km.[19] Pulverized pumice and lava fragments piled up to 20 meters[20] deep,[21] leaving the city of Pompeii buried beneath four million tons of volcanic material and debris[22].

The eruption released 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bomb of Hiroshima[23]. The estimated VEI[24] was 5 on a scale of 8, making it one of the largest known eruptions in the past 2,000 years.

The only problem is, in spite of this magnitude, it didn’t leave any signature whatsoever in Greenland ice cores:


In Antarctica, it’s the same story; no noticeable deposits. Notice that “the event” didn’t trigger a noticeable temperature drop either:



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List of Vesuvius eruption between 536 AD and 79 AD


In contrast, the eruption of 540 AD is not only backed up by historical observations, but left very distinct marks in both Antarctica and Greenland and in temperature reconstructions. For some reason, it is the only eruption with no associated VEI.

Notice also, all the other alleged eruptions – in 172 AD, 203 AD, 222 AD, 379 AD, 472 AD and 512 AD – despite reaching, for several them, a VEI of 4 and 5 – didn’t leave any trace in Greenland and Antarctica ice cores and temperature reconstructions.

Could it be that just one eruption of Vesuvius (that of 540 AD, with its historical observations and confirmed ice cores) actually happened, while the other eruption (of 79 AD) didn’t happen?

That’s substantially what Mike Baillie proposes in his paper “Volcanoes, ice cores and tree rings; one story or two?”[26] In it he suggests that if no volcanic ash is to be found in ice cores corresponding to 79 AD (as shown by Plunkett et al.) then the real eruption – conventionally attributed to 79 AD – actually occurred in 540 AD.

If one eruption of Vesuvius became two, 461 years apart, could those 461 years have been added to the official timeline?

This time difference occurs elsewhere in historical chronology: the reign of Charlemagne[27] began in 768 AD, and the reign of Constantine began in 306 AD[28]. The difference between those two dates is 462 years.

The moral revival that marked the Carolingian Renaissance was centered on Christianity in general and on Constantine in particular:


A number of authors, among them Heribert Illig and Gerhard Anwander[30], doubt the historicity of Charlemagne and argue that he was a mythical figure modeled after historical Constantine.​

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Constantine and Charlemagne on Cologne Cathédral

This makes sense since more or less 300 years were blank. But as demonstrated by Ward Perkins[31], blank doesn’t mean added.

Might it in fact be other way around: was a mythical Constantine modeled after the historical figure of Charlemagne? Another piece of evidence supporting this hypothesis is the forgery of the Constantine donation:​



In other words, Constantine’s legacy was to grant supreme temporal and spiritual power to the Church, and its main proof was a forgery (probably conducted at the behest of Pepin Le Bref[33], the father of Charlemagne).

One reason why 460 years may have been added is because this gave plenty of ‘time’ to establish a whole genealogy of Popes and Saints, dozens of which, incidentally, have been proven to be mythical.[34] [35]

A final question: why, during the time of Saint Paul, did Christianity not really catch on? In the 26 years (29 AD – 55 AD) he spent preaching, Paul gathered at most one thousand followers.[36] And yet, just a few centuries later, Christianity has taken Western Europe by storm, becoming the new state religion of the Germanic Holy Empire.

After all, the central values at the core of Christianity – mercy, forgiveness and love – were so foreign to most at the time[37].

Might it be that the collective trauma of cometary bombardment and/or a newly introduced virus triggered this evolutionary leap?

If 460 years were added the official time, then Paul was right he said to the Corinthians – which is dated from 43-46 AD[38]:




[1] Lescaudron, 2014. Chapter 34: Historic evidence of a cosmic-human connection
[2] Procopius (1927) “The Secret History”, New York: Covici Friede. chapter XVIII, translated by Richard Atwater,
[3] Procopius. (1914) “History of the Wars” Volume I: Books 1-2. Harvard University Press.
[4] Ward-Perkins, Bryan (2005) “The fall of Rome”. Oxford University Press p.95 & p.111
[5] Ibid, pp. 96
[6] Niemitz, Hans-Ulrich (2000), Did the early middle age really exist, p.5
[7] Ward-Perkins, op. cit., pp. 148-149
[8] White Jr., Lynn (1968). “Die mittelalterliche Technik und der Wandel der Gesellschaft”. München
[9] Ward-Perkins, op. cit., pp. 110-117
[10] Hardouin, Jean, (2017) “The Prolegomena”, independently published. Translated by Edwin Johnson. p. 64
[11] Wikipedia contributors. (2021) ‘’Carolingian Renaissance’’ Wikipedia
[12] Lescaudron, 2014 chapter 32-35
[13] Contreni, John G. (1984) "The Carolingian Renaissance". Cambridge University Press
[14] Wikipedia contributors. (2021) “Giovanni Giocondo” Wikipedia
[15] Tom Higgins (2011) “Pliny Correspondence With Trajan John Bartrom” Scribd
[16] Kaiser, R. (2017) “Caesar's Rhine Bridge and Its Feasibility in Giovanni Giocondo's Expositio pontis (1513)”. In Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing (pp. 68-92) Cambridge University Press
[17] Stenhouse, William (2003) “Georg Fabricius and Inscriptions as a Source of Law.” Renaissance Studies 17, no. 1 96–107
[18] De Raedt N. (2016) “Architecture” In Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer
[19] Time editors (1956) “Man of Pompeii" Time
[20] 70 ft
[21] Sigurðsson, Haraldur et al. (1982) "The Eruption of Vesuvius in A. D. 79: Reconstruction from Historical and Volcanological Evidence" American Journal of Archaeology 86 (1)
[22] Noreen G. (2021) “A World Buried in the Eruption” Eruption Vesuvius
[23] Ibid
[24] Volcanic Explosivity Index
[25] Plunkett, G. et al. (2021) “No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: Implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology” Climate of the Past
[26] Baillie, M. (2010) “Volcanoes, ice-cores and tree-rings: One story or two?” Antiquity, 84(323), 202-215
[27] Wikipedia contributors (2021) “Charlemagne” Wikipedia
[28] Mark, J. J. (2019) “Donation of Constantine” World History Encyclopedia
[29] Nancy Ross (2021) “Carolingian art, an introduction” Khan Academy
[30] Heribert Illig, Gerhard Anwander (2002) “Bayern in der Phantomzeit. Archäologie widerlegt Urkunden des frühen Mittelalters”
[31] See: “Social and civilizational conditions after the plagues”
[32] Jeremy Norman (2021) “Lorenzo Valla Proves that the Donation of Constantine is a Forgery” History Of Information
[33] Ross, 2021
[34] Wikipedia contributors (2021) “List of Christian martyrs” Wikipedia
[35] Bauer, S. (2021). “Who Wrote the Lives of the Popes? Permutations of a Renaissance Myth’’ The Catholic Historical Review 107(1), 28-49
[36] Laura Knight-Jadczyk (2021) “From Paul to Mark: PaleoChristianity” Red Pill Press
[37] Mert Toker, “What historic/ancient civilization or society had the lowest preference for mercy?” Quora
[38] Laura Knight-Jadczyk, 2021
[39] 1 Cor 7: 29-31 (NRSVCE)​



i read a book on thes fictitious years. those believing in the absence of these years were called "recentistes".
 
Recently I came back to this topic of our calendars having probably around 300-400 too many years. I was wondering how on Earth this could have been done to ALL the calendars that have been in use during and since the Middle Ages. There are Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Mongol, Iranian and even the Maya calendars (2012 was not 2012?).

Some of the clues how all these calendars were made to have 300-400 too many years, just like "our" Gregorian calendar:

- It is clear that the Vatican is at the center of the 300-400 extra years hoax, so seeing the Jesuits deeply involved in calendar-related "adjustments" worldwide since the 16th century is not surprising. For example, even as early as 1624-1644 two Jesuits helped "update" the Chinese calendar in China, which was presumably when it was made to fit with the already falsified Gregorian calendar.

- The "architect of the Gregorian calendar" itself was also a Jesuit (Christopher Clavius). It was basically his obfuscation around the question of how many days had to be adjusted that the hoax keeps going today.

- "Dark Ages" (which existed in every culture at some point) were probably stretched to add centuries which didn't happen, so that all calendars aligned with the Gregorian calendar hoax.

For me, the smoking gun evidence for 300-400 too many years is this:

The Gregorian calendar cut 10 days from the Julian calendar, because supposedly the spring equinox was on March 21st in the 3rd century. But this cannot be the case, because Augustus had his birthday on September 23 and was very proud that it was the fall equinox. Which means that the corresponding spring equinox was on March 21st already in the 1st century BC (and in the 3rd century the spring equinox would have already been 2-3 days earlier and not on March 21st).

In the 16th century, the spring equinox was on March 11th and already off by 10 days from March 21st. If indeed 1600 years had passed since the beginning of the Julian calendar (when one extra day started accumulating every hundred years or so) until the Gregorian reform in our "16th" century, then the calendar should have been corrected by about 13 days. Since the actual corrected discrepancy was only 10 days, this means that 300-400 years less passed between the time of Caesar/Augustus and the 16th century.

I wish it was possible to explain this in even more simple terms.
 

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