Re: Pre-Cyrillic writing thousands of years ago?!

If I remember correctly there is a well known Bulgarian text by Monk Khrabr (ca. beginning of 10th c.) which states that before the work of Cyril and Methodius, Slavs did occasionally record things in their language by using "cherti i rizi" (don't have a dictionary at hand for the exact translation but these words refer to some sort of phonetic (?) signs) perhaps already employing the alphabetic systems used by neighbours they knew.

--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

From: Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Pre-Cyrillic writing thousands of years ago?!
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 6:02 PM

Sad that people waste so much time on that shiznatz. But other than Glagolitic and possible runes around Novgorod, was there any pre-Cyrillic writing?

--- On Mon, 9/14/09, danjmi <dmilt1896@... com> wrote:

From: danjmi <dmilt1896@... com>
Subject: [tied] Re: Pre-Cyrillic writing thousands of years ago?!
To: cybalist@... s.com
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 11:40 AM

I was too hasty with my previous posting. You don't have to listen to a dull lecture in Russian (or is it Macedonian?) to learn about the Macedonian text of the Rosetta Stone! YouTube has an explanation in English at
www.youtube. com/watch? v=b8MyOV9- 7ZA&feature= related

It's well worth watching, if just for the graphics and really good Macedonian background music.

BTW, am I right that before this revolutionary discovery, the Demotic text and the Hieroglyphic text were considered essentially the same thing in two writing systems?
Dan