Nostradamus, is Wrong!
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Supposedly, this quatrain predicts the Ottoman Turks aka, the East taking the majority of the Balkan Peninsula, which would be repelled by Peter the Great of Russia. The Moon is said to be a reference to the crescent moon symbol of Islam, and Aquilon was another name for "Anemoi", the Greek gods of the wind - specifically in this case, the north wind. Two great ocks will make war for a long time.
Then Arethusa will redden a new river. For five hundred one to betray will be titled, Narbonne and Salces we have oil for knives.
This quatrain is popularly attributed to be a prediction of the French Revolution. Instead, it's just one of many prophecies invalidated by bad translation. The original French reads: More practically, Pope Gregory I sent missionaries to England in in the belief that this was really the last chance for the pagan English to be converted. Christopher Columbus was also keen on converting a new land to Christianity before Judgment Day, which he put at about a century and a half after his voyage.
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Admittedly, he identified the wrong continent - America instead of Asia - and, far from sounding the Last Trump in PC Post Columbus , God had not even tuned up the orchestra. Some of the material in Doomsday: Particularly cheering is his interview with a prophet of doom who, compared with Nostradamus, gives us an extra over or two before the Almighty pulls stumps on us: Use those extra five weeks wisely: Nostradamus never mentioned the End of the World at all, according to Peter Lemesurier, who should know, as he is the author of The Essential Nostradamus Piatkus.
It seems that the 16th-century French prophet has been mistranslated and misrepresented. Many people say that the two great rocks are a reference to the planes used in the attack.
Arethusa is a mythological Nymph who turned in to a fountain. Nostradamus knew this as can be seen clearly in the last sentence. A casual search on the internet will lead you to some of the most bizarre translations of this quatrain.
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For example, one site says this for line 2: Thankful to have survived a doomsday prediction? Hitler Original French. In the place very near not far from Venus, The two greatest ones of Asia and of Africa, From the Rhine and Hister they will be said to have come, Cries, tears at Malta and the Ligurian side. This is one of the more popular quatrains; it is said to describe Hitler Hister at a meeting with Mussolini in which they made plans for Italy for formally enter the Second World War.
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The problem here is that Hister is a term used in the time of Nostradamus to describe the Danube river. It does seem to describe a war that has some relation to Germany, but there is no way of connecting this to Hitler or the Second World War.
Louis Pasteur Original French. Lost, found, hidden for so long a time, the pastor will be honored as a demigod: Before the Moon finishes its full period he will be dishonored by other winds. This is often cited as a prediction for the coming of Louis Pasteur and his work with microbes.
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The confusion is partly exacerbated by the fact that the French word for Pastor was Pasteur, but as Nostradamus never quoted anyone by name from the future, it is unlikely that he did so here — and the reference to a demigod in the same sentence suggests the religious interpretation of a religious Pastor. It is possible that Nostradamus may have been accurate with the date, however: Roussat, a Jewish Astrologer who work was known to Nostradamus put the end of the Moon cycle at — by which time Pasteur was applying his immunization technology.
The young lion will overcome the old one on the field of battle in single combat: He will put out his eyes in a cage of gold: Two fleets one, then to die a cruel death. Four years after Nostradamus wrote this prophecy, King Henry II of France was killed by a lance in the eye at a match with the younger Captain Montgomery. However, the match was not a battle, it was held at a party to celebrate a peace-treaty quite the opposite of a field of battle.