Slavic Numerology

This calculator takes a single input: a name, typed either in the Latin alphabet or directly in Cyrillic or Glagolitic. Latin letters are matched to the closest-sounding Old Church Slavonic letter, so M becomes Myslete, R becomes Rtsi, C becomes Tsi and Y becomes Izhe; Cyrillic or Glagolitic letters are read as written, so Мария counts М, А, Р and И, while letters that never carried a number, such as Я, are skipped. Each letter is then given two numbers, one from the Cyrillic numeral system and one from the Glagolitic sequence. No birth date is asked for, and nothing here draws on Slavic gods or a Slavic zodiac.

You get two totals, a single-digit root for each (digits are added until one remains), the difference between the totals and a letter-by-letter breakdown. If the Cyrillic total equals one of the listed Old Slavonic words, a badge appears. A second box lets you enter another name and checks whether the totals match in either script.

Take Maria Silva. In Cyrillic the letters give 40, 1, 100, 8, 1, 200, 8, 30, 2 and 1, a total of 391, which reduces through 13 to a root of 4. The Glagolitic column gives 60, 1, 100, 10, 1, 200, 10, 50, 3 and 1, a total of 436, which also reduces through 13 to a root of 4. The difference is 45, and no word badge appears. Maria on its own scores 150 and 172, 22 apart; Silva widens the gap because L is worth 30 in Cyrillic but 50 in Glagolitic, and I is worth 8 against 10. Note that Cyrillic Б and Ж had no numeric value, so a B adds nothing to the Cyrillic column.

The Cyrillic figure is the one with real historical use: letters marked with a titlo served as numbers in manuscripts and church books. Read each root as a theme to think about rather than a description of you. The short texts beside the roots borrow images such as Perun and Lada; that is modern poetic framing, not recorded tradition. The difference is plain arithmetic from two orderings, and a wide gap usually just means heavy letters like M, N or L, which sit one step higher in the Glagolitic sequence. The breakdown shows which letters carry most of the weight, and a matching pair of totals in the comparison is a coincidence of sums, a conversation starter at most.

The Slavic horoscope of chertogs seen online comes from Rodnover writings of the 1990s, not from any attested pre-Christian source, so this page does not use it.

The calculator shows how a name might have been counted in medieval Slavonic letter numerals; it cannot tell you anything about your character or future that you do not bring to it yourself.