…work of Saints Cyril and Methodius, who had invented an alphabet in which to write the Slavic language (known as Old Church Slavonic or Old Bulgarian) and almost completed the translation of the Bible (most parts of both the Old and the New Testament) into the vernacular of the land.…

Cyril and Methodius were two missionaries, brothers from Thessaloniki, who popularized Christianity among the Slavic peoples. Such was their influence that they are now known as the “Apostles to the Slavs”. In the Czech Republic, July 5 is a national holiday in honor of them. Their exact years of birth are unknown.

Saints Cyril (Constantine) and Methodius were neither Greeks nor Bulgarians. They were Slavs from Macedonia. True, they were the sons of a Byzantine official from Salonika, they were educated at the Magnaur Academy in the imperial court of Byzantium and Cyril was chief of the patriarchal library in Constantinople.

The Catholic Church did not commemorate Saint Cyril in the Tridentine Calendar: it added his feast only in 1882, assigning to it the date of 9 February. This date is used by the Western Rite Orthodox Church….Cyril of Alexandria.

Russians

Invented an alphabet for Slavic languages, they believed the Slavs would be more interested if the bible was in their own language. The Cyrillic alphabet helped the spread of Christianity by introducing it to the Slavs in their own language which Cyril thought they would prefer.

Constantine I

Why did the Slavs ask the Rus to intervene in their affairs during the mid-800s AD? Infighting among the Slav was out of control.

In 882, a Viking prince named Oleg seized power in Kiev, which he then proclaimed the “mother of Russian cities”. In doing so, he unified the Slav dwellings scattered across a vast area that would then become known as the “Kievan Rus’”.

However, the title “tsar” (and its Byzantine Greek equivalent basileus) was actually adopted and used for the first time by his son Simeon I, following a makeshift imperial coronation performed by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 913.

How did the Byzantine Empire get its name? Modern historians use the term Byzantine Empire to distinguish the state from the western portion of the Roman Empire. The name refers to Byzantium, an ancient Greek colony and transit point that became the location of the Byzantine Empire’s capital city, Constantinople.

Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family. It is a descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus’, a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid 13th centuries.

Early English (Anglo Saxon) was first formed in the 5th century and developed into modern English over the following 1500 years. The Russian language emerged on the basis of east-Slavic languages: with Russian state establishment there came the need to develop a dialect equally understandable to all tribes.

Sumerian

The meaning of the personal name of the Israelite God has been variously interpreted. Many scholars believe that the most proper meaning may be “He Brings into Existence Whatever Exists” (Yahweh-Asher-Yahweh). The personal name of God probably was known long before the time of Moses.

Yahweh is one God who is three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Jesus is God the Son. In the Old Testament, when Yahweh spoke to Moses, He referred to Himself as “I AM”. And Yahweh basically means “I AM”, or “I am He that is”.

The word possibly was “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh Asher” meaning “I am That I am That”. Moses in his ecstasy and bliss wanted to share this state with the people of Israel and so it was a need to give a name to this experience, to this state, hence he gave a name to “That” and “Ehyeh” became “Yahweh”.

Although the biblical narratives depict Yahweh as the sole creator god, lord of the universe, and god of the Israelites especially, initially he seems to have been Canaanite in origin and subordinate to the supreme god El.