THE FUNCTION OF NON-TRUTH IN PRESERVING ETHNICITY IN PAISII'S STORY ABOUT THE FIRST SLAVONIC TEACHERS

Abstract

The following report shows the ethnosaving function of the images of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in “History“ by Paisii. The interpretation includes an overlook of the possible sources used by the author, while he had been writing the chapter “For the Slav Teachers“; it gives short reports about the cult of Cyril and Methodius from the ninght century to 1762 and searches for the author’s purposes in his own cult project.