The Mystery of the Bulgarian Letters
Pointing out the “excellences” of the Slavonic script to the Greek alphabet, the Old-Bulgarian author Chernorizetz Hrabar claimed that if in Byzantium the creators of the Greek script were familiar to only few men-of-letters, in Bulgaria even school children knew that their letters had been conceived by Constantine-Cyril, the Philosopher.
Possibly, in the late 9th and early 10th century, i.e. the time when Chernorizetz Hrabar wrote his works, everything concerning the origin of the Slavonic script was absolutely clear. But now that in the course of already two centuries Slav scholars from all over the world have developed heaps of theories on this subject, the questions and mysteries in the field are often more numerous than the points known.
It is beyond dispute that the alphabet and the first translations of liturgical books to the Slavonic language were the work of Constantine-Cyril, the Philosopher (about 827-869). Paradoxically, however, within a short period of time two alphabets - the Glagolitic and the Cyrillic - were created and, respectively, replaced, and so far scholars are not unanimous in their opinion of which one of them was created by Constantine-Cyril.
