[tied] Re: Yers

Perhaps they would have survived even

> longer had they not imploded in a couple of
> devastating civil wars connected with the problem of
> Christianity. Boris (Bogoris) was actually the
> gravedigger of the proto-Bulgar ethnos.

I am not sure Christianity was so foreign to the Protobulgar
ethnos. Not more than it was to the Slavs. When did the wars
you mean take place? At the time of Boris? Btw, he has never
been presented negatively by Bulgarian historians. I am really
amused to read all this. So the following Golden Age must have
been the death of the Bulgars?

They were no

> longer a significant presence or power (esp. because
> of their continued opposition to Christianity) by the
> time the Cyrillomethodians arrived in Bulgaria (886
> AD). Cyrillomethodianism (esp. in its early phase) was
> extraordinarily open to liturgical multilingualism.

I hear the term Cyrillomethodianism for the first time. Sounds
like all other -isms. Do you describe this as a movement of a
sort?

A

> substantial residue of proto-Bulgar speaking people
> would have been a fine incentive to produce religious
> literature for them in that language. But it never
> happened.******

There are, actually findings of carved crosses with
proto-Bulgarian words. I guess there were such attempts, but
not much evidence is found on them, so they must have been a
few.

Eva