Nostradamus Prophecy: World War 3 Quatrains

Many have interpreted the following verses as applicable to the advent of the Third World War, an attack upon New York City.

Cinq et quarante degres ciel bruslera
Feu approcher de la grand cite neufve
Instand grand flame esparse sautera VI.97

The sky will burn at 45 degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city.
Immediately huge, scattered flame leaps up

Thousands of Americans were killed by the vicious crashing of two airliners into the World Trade Center in September 2001 killing innocent civilians including women and children. At the time many said, “Nostradamus predicted this”.The verses above however do not apply to “911” as New York is at 40.6 or 40.7 degrees latitude, the sky did not explode on fire, and huge flames did not immediately leap up. Nostradamus only mentioned America once, if that was his intent, in quatrain X.66, which has nothing to do with VI.97.

There is a town at 45 degrees north latitude named Villeneuve-sur-Lot in southwestern France which better fits the bill. Ville neuve in French literally means “new city”. Some have argued that Nostradamus meant 40.5 degrees when he stated “cinq et quarante”, however this argument fails as the decimal system did not exist in Nostradamus’s day.

L’an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois,
Du ciel viendra un grand Roi deffraieur
Rescusciter le grand Roi de’Angolmois
Avant que Mars regner par bonhneur

In the book “Norstradamus, 1555 and Beyond” Erika Cheetham offers the translation of this quatrain as:

“In the year 1999 and seven months from the sky will come the Great King of Terror. He will bring back the Great King of the Mongols. But before and this war reigns unrestrained.”

In the book “The Secrets of Nostradamus: A Radical New Interpretation of the Master’s Prophecies” David Ovason offers the following translation:

“The year one thousand nine hundreds ninety nine seven months
From the sky will come a King of alarm
To bring back to life the great King of Angoulmois,
Before after Mars to reign by good fortune.”

Maintaining that Nostradamus was “an initiate, working on behalf of a sixteenth century arcane school,” Ovason analyzes the verse in terms of the Green Language which “has been used widely in occult literature.”

Ovason informs us that Angoulmois comes straight from the arcane Green Language and concludes: “It is evident, therefore, that Nostradamus is disguising the name of the planetary archangel Michael in the pseudo-epigraphic Roy d’Angoulmois.”

With respect to the verse “Du ciel viendra un grand Roy d’effrayeur” or “From the sky will come a great King of alarm” Ovason points out that while “effrayeur” means alarmist or frightener, “defrayer” means to amuse or entertain.

The quatrain’s “1999” per occultic analysis, according to Ovason, “could very be related to A.D. 2087.”

As with everything else concerning Nostradamus, things are very likely not what they seem. Furthermore, the variance of opinion in the interpretation of this quatrain represents a great dilemma with everything Nostradamus wrote. The quatrains are so cryptic that different writers interpret them differently. There are nearly as many interpretations as they are interpreters. People are trying to see something in them that is not there.

Nostradamus Prophecy: The Death of Henry II

Le lyon jeune le vieux surmontera,
En champ bellique par singulier duelle:
Dans caige d’or les yeux luy creuera,
Deux classes vne, puis mourir, mort cruelle.

“The young lion will overcome the old one,
On the field of battle in single combat:
He will burst his eyes in a cage of gold,
Two fleets one, then to die, a cruel death.”

In the summer of 1559 the daughter of Henry II married Philip II of Spain and Marguerite, the sister of Henry II, married the Duke of Savoy. Part of the “double wedding” celebrations included jousting. Henry rode against Gabriel de Lorges, Comte de Montgomery, but failed to unseat him and tried again. Montgomery’s lance shattered as the two jousters collided and a splinter entered Henry’s helmet, pierced his skull above his right eye, and penetrated his brain. Henry collapsed and ten days later died.

Does the above quatrain prophesy the death of Henry, as many claim? In his introduction to the second section of the Centuries on March 14, 1557 Nostradamus drafted a lengthy and fawning epistle to Henry II which runs as follows: “Ever since my long-clouded face first presented itself before the infinite deity of your majesty, O most Christian and most victorious king, I have remained perpetually dazzled by that sight, not ceasing to honor and worship appropriately that date when I presented myself… I was seized with this singular desire to be transported suddenly from my long-beclouded obscurity to the illuminating presence of the first Monarch of the Universe….” (source “The Mask of Nostradamus by James Randi).

There is no evidence in this Epistle written two years before Henry II’s death that Nostradamus foresaw the imminent death of his “most Christian and most victorious king”. Had the epistle been prophesying the death of Henry II, one would believe that Nostradamus would have warned Henry.

Montgomery was younger than Henry but only a few years so “The young lion will overcome the old one” is not significant.

James Randi in his expositive book “The Mask of Nostradamus” points out that the French have never used the lion as a symbol of monarchy. Their animal symbol was the fighting cock.

With respect to the second line of the quatrain, “On the field of battle in single combat,” a joust is not a “field of battle” but more of a contest. Serious injuries were not expected to occur. Furthermore if one insists that a joust is a battle, Henry’s death was not the result of a “single” combat. Henry failed to unseat Montgomery in the first sally, Henry asked for another try. Montgomery deferred to his king’s request. There was, therefore, a “second” combat.

“He will burst his eyes in a cage of gold” does not reflect Henry’s fate as neither of his eyes was burst. Montgomery’s lance pierced Henry’s skull above the king’s right eye.

Gold is soft and does not afford protection. Jousting helmets were not made of gold except for decorative overlays or attached emblems.

The last verse “Two fleets one, then to die, a cruel death” aren’t really relevant to the demise of Henry II, except that his death was cruel or perhaps more accurately “tragic” as cruelty implies that intent from a perpetrator, which was not the case here. Montgomery’s injury was the result of accident not intent.

Nostradamus and the World Trade Center attacks

Can anyone believe that the 9/11 attacks on the world trade centre were actually predicted by a man more than four hundred years ago? Who else could it be but Michael de Nostredame – more commonly called Nostradamus. It is believed that this ‘seer’ predicted the attack on the twin towers in the seventeenth century.

Phony? Or real? Yet, even in the computer age, a part of the population has been stunned by the predictions made by this philosopher in 1654. There are many versions of this rumor and none of them have yet been proved authentic.

Not only are the versions unbelievable. They are also, in some cases, very dramatic and obviously woven.

Not withstanding the fact that the philosopher himself died in 1566, it has become evident that certain highly bored individuals with a lot of time on their hands are trying to incite some excitement into people’s lives through these false alarms.

It is said that some of these words are made up by these pranksters in nostradamus style writing.

Well, they’ve all been revealed thanks to some good Samaritans to expose these fraudsters like www.snopes.com , hosted by Barbara Mikkelson.

The 1654 hoax prediction was actually an essay written by a student from Brock University in Canada who made up the entire quatrain to show how one can easily forge and mangle a nostradamus prediction to sound mischievous.

It is said that Nostradamus composed around 942 quatrains in his lifetime and published it in a book called ‘Centuries’. It means hundreds of anything. But it was mistaken to mean hundreds of years. This is where all the confusion began.

Nostradamus’ quatrains were quaint and mystical and supposedly went on to predict a thousand years in French history. The only ever exact date that he mentioned was July 1999, when he believed the world would end.

And in almost 30 of these mystical parables, Nostradamus talks about three “anti-christ”s who will take over the world. Will Mc Whorter, an interpreter identifies two of the three. One was Napoleon and the second, who tyrannized the world during World War II was Hitler. Aficionados of Nostradamus are resting their case on the third, who allegedly takes over after World War III. The bets are still high on who that could be.

If you do believe in prophecies, pay your money, buy the book and let’s see what you get at.