Uspenskij, B. (2014). Glagolitic Script as a Manifestation of Sacred Knowledge. Studi Slavistici, 10(1), 7–27. https://doi.org/10.13128/Studi_Slavis-14132
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It is argued that the Glagolitic alphabet was constructed as an ideographic illustration of sacred knowledge. The author attempts to demonstrate some basic ideas encoded in the forms of the letters. At the same time the alphabet seems to reveal the acquaintance of the inventor of the Glagolitic alphabet – St Cyril the Philosopher – with Semitic languages.
