Solomon’s Glass in "Žitje Konstantinovo" and Hektorovic’s Gobblet in "Fishing and Fishermen’s Conversations (Paginirat)"

Abstract

This paper is based on the hypothesis that Solomon’s cup, described in the 13th chapter of Žitje Konstantinovo significantly influenced on Petar Hektorovic who presented his cup from which he drank wine during a three – day voyage in the company of two simple fishermen as an extremely important subject that needs to be constantly taken care of and must by no means be
forgotten and lost. The problem is approached with the conviction that Hektorovic deliberately made his cup vague and that through the description of that cup he actually said that it would be lost if its true and hidden meaning was not revealed. Hektorovic’s cup should therefore be approached with philosophical reflection and a view of life as the one of the Greek missionary,
the apostle among the Slavs, Constantine-Cyril, who managed to read and interpret the inscription on the Solomon’s cup kept in the Church of St. Sofia. The intention is to come to the conclusion derived from the hypothesis that the phenomenon of mysterious, unusual and artistically refined glass has been present in the Slavic literature since the beginning of their literacy in their
own language and that it is the bearer of a universal idea of life that will strongly occupy the thoughtof a Renaissance, secular and thinking man