O vektorskom čitanju pismovnoga sustava Konstantina Ćirila
On Vectorial Reading of Constantine Cyril’s (Azbuka) Script

Author(s): Milica Lukić
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Cultural history, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Constantine Cyril; Azbuka; Glagolitic; vectorial reading; matrix; number
Summary/Abstract: The paper presents and interprets Constantine Cyril’s script – his Glagolitic Azbuka – from the perspective of the number, i.e. in the matrix form. The matrix interpretation implies an arrangement of letters in columns and rows, i.e. vectors, whereby vectors mean one-column matrices. Such an arrangement of ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands expressed in letters establishes new meaning relations within that script and offers its new reading as a philosophical-symbolic medium. This medium, the vectorial reading shows, demonstrates with itself the purpose of Christianisation intended for it in the 9th century, and not just with the texts realised by it; this script (even today) teaches faith in the triune Christian God – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Word that has become the body and the Letter as the evangelical message and will of the Incarnate Word.

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