Michael Jordan (Nostradamus and the new millennium): "In July 1999,
a great and terrifying ruler will come from the skies and revive the
great king of the Angoulmois before and after which Mars will rule
with good fortune."
Stefan Palus (Nostradamus 2000): "The year 1999, the seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror: Resuscitating the great
King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign happily."
Alef (A.P.N. newsgroup): The year nine hundred ninety nine seven
month, From sky will come one grand King of fright: Resurrect the
grand King of Angolmois, Before after Mars reign by good-luck.
It should be noted there is some small confusion over the presence of
an apostrophe and one or two commentators have presented a contrary
translation for line two. For example:
Peter Lemesurier (A.P.N. Alternate FAQ) "When 1999 is seven months
o'er Shall Heaven's great Ruler, anxious to appease, Stir up the
Mongol-Lombard king once more And war reign haply where it once did
cease."
Two distinguished posters, with exemplary French knowledge, present
the counter argument to this case:
Alef (a.p.n) comments "There is no such word as ( deffrayeur )in the
French language. However the said word, is a look alike of the word (
defrayer ) which some have for the sake of supporting a story
invented, a word which is not in the dictionary ( defraie ) and given
it a logical meaning. Than pushing this idea to the limit of
argumentation. However the word ( effrayeur ) is found as such and is
clearly expressing a ( fright ) the ( d' ) is a preposition to
explicit the connection between the previous word and the following (
d' ) for " of " in this case. In English we say ' of fright'. " He
further comments on the issue of apostrophe/ no apostrophe as follows:
"...the word still means ( fright ). Paying a dept write with only one
( f ) as ( defraie ). and the verbs in this case is not in French
dictionaries, write as ( defrayer ) to defray, is been the subject of
a dept pay off. The word ( defray ) is not in context with the text
of quatrain 10.72. The word can be found in the complete guide to
conjugation 12000 French verbs By Bescherelle Hurtubise hmn."
Claude Latremouille (a.p.n), although considering the quatrains were
written to be decrypted not interpreted, agrees that the "deffraieur"
means "d'effraieur". He notes on this matter: 'The two French words
"de effraieur" become "d'effraieur" and are printed as "deffraieur" in
X-72. They mean "of great fear". In modern French, they would be
written: "de frayeur".(another justification: Nostradamus uses "l
effrayeur" in the Letter to Henry and never uses "le deffraieur" to
his knowledge).'
So, it is fair to say that the "King of Terror/ fright/ great fear" is
the overall consensus view which has stood the test of time and is
shared by most commentators.
What interpretations have been put forward?
Once the correct translation has been established, we next look at the
meaning and possible interpretation. We have some event occurring in
the seventh month of 1999 (line 1). Firstly, the seventh month may
mean:
1. July
2. July 14th - Aug 13th (seventh month in Nostradamus' Julian
calendar)
3. September (sept = seven in French)
4. The seventh month in the Hebrew calendar, Ethanim--"Tishri" in the
Hebrew civil calendar--which begins September 11, 1999 and runs to
Sunday, October 10 (till sunset).
This event will cause great terror and come from the sky (line 2).
It's effect is to revive or bring to prominence an empire/ kingdom in
the East (line 3). War will be underway BEFORE and AFTER (line 4).
So what is this 'King Of Terror'? Some proposed candidates include a
nuclear exchange, an air attack, an alien landing, the Cassini space
Probe crashing etc.
Some deep thinking may reveal a little more.
Something 'great' comes from the sky. It is visible for a long enough
period of time to create terror (terror take time to develop, unlike
fear). The degree and visibility of the event seem to rule out a
man-made source, except for nuclear war. However, in the case of
nuclear war there would be many 'Kings' (nuclear missiles) and not
just one. A Cassini probe crash may also appear to fit the bill - yet
it would hardly have time to promote fear, it would simply crash with
no warning (and if there were such a warning counter measures could be
taken). Both are possibilities, but is there anything else?
Is there a connection with the total solar eclipse visible throughout
much of Europe this year? This eclipse occurs on the 11th August,
hitting the south-western coast of England at 11.11 am and proceeding
through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Hungary,
Yugoslavia and Romania, Bugaria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and
India (many other areas will see a Partial Eclipse including eastern
North America). The 11th August falls within the seventh month
according to the Julian calendar.
How might one interpretation involve a asteroid impact?
A possibility (originally proposed in Charles Berlitz in 'Doomsday
1999 AD' (1981) and taken up by Stefan Paulus in 'Nostradamus 2000 -
who will survive' (1996)) is that the King of Terror refers to a
comet/ asteroid which will hit the earth causing devastation and a
shift of the east/west power balance, enabling the rise of the 3rd
Antichrist. Heavenly bodies have been treated in an anthropomorphic
fashion throughout history, hence the reference to a King. Most of the
rest of this document will explore this possibility.
When would the asteroid first be visible?
Quatrain III.34
Quand le deffaut du Soleil lors sera Sur le plein iour le monstre sera
veu: Tout autrement on l'interpretera, Cherte' n'a garde nul n'y aura
pourueu.
When the eclipse of the Sun will then be, In broad daylight the
monster will be seen Everyone will differ on the interpretation, High
price unguarded: none will have prepared.
During the total solar eclipse of August 11th a comet will be seen
which is approaching Earth from behind the sun. It will have been
invisible upto this point, and will be after (the same happened in
1948 when comet 1948 XI was discovered). People will argue over the
significance. Is it a sign (line 3)? Panic buying will ensue (line 4).
What additional justification is there for the hypothesis that this
'monster' is a comet? Johannes Hevelius' book, Cometographia,
published in Gdansk (formally Danzig) in 1668, includes drawings of
several different cometry forms seen between 1577 and 1652, and
several are labelled 'monstriferous'. Two of these comets referred to
in such a way have drawings which indicate disconnected gaps in their
tails indicating fragmentary cometry pieces.
Hence, Nostradamus is warning this comet will carry one or more
asteroids in it's tail, and although the comet itself will miss the
earth one of these asteroids will impact.
Are there any quatrains describing the comets approach?
Yes.
Quatrain V.32 (Cheetham)
When all is good and all abundance, in the Sun and Moon its ruin
approaches. It comes from heaven as you boast of your fortune, in the
same state as the seventh rock.
Line 1: Conditions are good (consider from Nostradamus' view).
Line 2: From the heavens some ruin approaches.
Line 3: It comes from deep space as many seem content.
Line 4: the comet itself is not the cause, but is in the same 'state'
(i.e. appearing together) as the rock. the seven connection relates to
the seventh month in X.72.
Quatrain II.46 (Cheetham)
Apres grat troche humain plus grad s'appreste Le grand moteur les
siecles renouuelle Pluye, sang, laict, famine, fer & peste, Au ciel
veu feu, courant longue estincelle.
After great misery for mankind an even greater one approaches, when
the great cycle of the centuries is renewed. It will rain blood, milk,
famine, war and disease. In the sky will be seen a fire, dragging a
tail of sparks.
Line 1: may refer to the world wars of the century.
Line 2: the millennium is renewed.
Line 3 and 4: the events which will accompany the comet.
Quatrain II.41
(Paulus) The great star for seven days will burn, The cloud will
cause two suns to appear: The big mastiff all night will howl, When
the great pontiff changes countries.
(Cheetham) The great star will burn for seven days and the cloud
will make the sun appear double. The large mastiff will howl all night
when the great pontiff changes his abode.
Line 1 & 2: The great star is a comet, and the cloud the coma. The
comet will burn so brightly in the sky it appears that we have two
suns. (Alternative translation :'The great star for September days
will burn'). Since it is visible at the same time as the sun (a
daylight comet such as the Great Daylight Comet of 1910) we can
conclude it approaches from the sun's sector of the sky. It's
brightness indicates a close approach.
Line 3: Nostradamian scholars usually identify the mastiff as
representing Britain - so we have a period of national distress in
Britain.
Line 4: Events necessitate the Papacy's relocation from Italy.
Quatrain VI.6
(Paulus) There will appear towards the North, Not far from Cancer
the bearded star: Susa, Siena, Boeotia, Eretria, The great one of Rome
will die, the night over.
Line 1: comet more visible from Northen hemisphere
Line 2: Aug 99 sun will be nearly out of Cancer and moving into Leo,
so comet is approaching Earth from behind the sun.
Line 3: Seismically active areas
Line 4: Pope will die, along with many.
A6) How big is the asteroid?
Quatrain I.69
La grande mortagne ronde de sept stades, Apres paix, gueere, faim,
inondation, Roulera loin abimant grands contrades, Memes antiques, et
grande fondation.
The great mountain round of seven stadia, Afterwards peace, war,
famine, flood, It will roll far away sinking great countries, Even
antiquities, and great foundation.
Line 1: What type of mountain is round? A good reference here is to
the burning mountain of Revelations which John describes as being
thrown into the oceans - a clear reference to an asteroid or comet
[Revelations 8:8]. So it appears we have a meteor or asteroid which
AFTER (i.e. the hit) causes war, famines, floods, great countries to
be sunk. Seven stadia equals 4,250 feet (a stadion in Greek
measurement was 607 feet). So, if this is the circumference (dividing
by Pi) gives the diameter - ~1350 feet, slightly more than a quarter
of a mile.
Such an asteroid (given an oceanic impact, as line 3 intimates) would
impact with the energy of 130,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs (assumptions:
perfect sphere, mainly stony asteroid with density 2g per cubic
centimetre, 60 km/sec impact speed - see <#palusPaulus for full
calculation). As a comparison, this is approximately 600 times the
energy of the Tunguska event over Siberia in 1908. However, the impact
of 65 million years ago in the Yucatan Peninsula, was likely a body of
approximately 6 miles in diameter - having 50,000 times more energy
than the postulated asteroid.
As a side note, in his letter to the Governor of Provence concerning
the Salon meteorite of 1554 Nostradamus: * Refers to the Meteorite/
comet as 'terrifying' 3 times (cf. X.72).* Uses the 'stadium' measure
to indicate breadth in the sky. This refutes some authors insistence
that the use of the Greek Stadia MUST indicate Mount Olympus in I.69.
A7) Which quatrains describe the impact and immediate consequences?
Quatrain II.43
(Paulus) During the bearded star's appearance, The three great
princes will be made enemies: Hit from the sky, peace earth trembling,
Pau, Tiber overflowing, serpent on the brink placed.
(Cheetham) During the appearance of the bearded star, the three
great princes will be made enemies. The tremulous peace on earth will
be struck from the skies; the Po, the winding Tiber, a serpent on the
shore
Line 1: Comets were called bearded stars.
Line 2: Three great nations - only 3 possible major powers are USA,
China and Russia. So they are possible candidates
Line 3: A strike from the sky shatters peace (asteroid in comets tail)
Line 4: Earthquakes in Italy/ France resulting from impact causing
flooding.
Quatrain II.70
(Cheetham) The arrow from heaven will make it's journey. Dead while
speaking; a great execution. The stone in the tree, the pond nation
brought down. The rumour of a human monster, purge and expiation.
Line 1: The asteroid approaches from the heavens like an arrow.
Line 2: The death toll of the impact - people die unexpectedly.
Line 3: stone is the asteroid, pond nation probably England/ Britain
(see next quatrain)
Line 4: May possibly refer to the Anti- Christ
Quatrain II.62
Mabus will soon die and there will happen a dreadful destruction of
people and animals. Suddenly, vengeance will appear, a hundred hands,
thirst and hunger, when the comet passes.
Line 1: The identity of Mabus is still unclear. He is not necessarily
the AntiChrist. One strong candidate is Saddam Hussein (invert his
first name in a mirror, by which he is universally known).
Line 2: The effects of the impact
Line 3: Note the use of suddenly
Line 4: The comet PASSING is the cause of the turmoil and misery.
Quatrain III.70
(Cheetham) The whole of Great Britain, including England, will be
covered by very deep floods. The new league in Ausonne will declare
war so that they will ally against them.
Line 1 & 2: Continuing the theme, Britain will suffer flooding from
the impact.
Line 2 & 4: Italy (Ausonne in south of Italy, stand for whole)
involved in war.
Where would the asteroid strike?
Briefly, the probable location is: Atlantic Ocean, east of
Mid-Atlantic Rise (near junction of African and European tectonic
plates).
What is the justification? First, a note that the exact location is
not specifically given. However, there are several clues.
* Britain seems to be affected especially (II.41, II.70, III.70)
* Italy suffers badly with earthquakes, with the papacy relocating.
(II.41)
* Other quatrains (along with Revelations and other sources) indicate
oceanic impact (I.69, II.43, letter to Cesar etc.)
* The general trend of the Arab invasian of Europe indicates a
weakening of the European powers, especially the western nations.
Another quatrain ties all these points together:
Quatrain IX.31
"The trembling of land at Mortara, Tin St, George half sunk, Peace
drowsy the war will awaken, In the temple at Easter abysses open."
Line 1: Mortara in northern Italy, 35 miles SW of Milan (located on
African- European plate border).
Line 2: St. George refers to England, also 'Tin' refers to Scilly
Islands, off the coast of England, also called Tin Islands
Nostradamus is here adding together an earthquake in Italy, and a
flooding of half of England (note that England, unlike Scotland and
Wales, is mainly near sea level). So the likely ocean for impact is
the Atlantic, near the undersea border of the European and African
plates, hence setting off quakes on the boundary in Italy and
surroundings. The tsunami floods more than half of England.
Line 3: After mankind being fairly drowsy with peace, major war will
start up.
Line 4: The following Easter sees another major earthchange.
We should consider, however, that an impact in the Pacific Ocean could
also be a possibility. Since Nostradamus wrote from a very
Europecentric view, he would concentrate on the effects upon England,
Italy, France etc.
[snip]
Does Nostradamus give any other clues about the eclipse and the
asteroid?
Nostradamus gives the signs to watch for in a letter to Henri II of
France:
"There will be a solar eclipse more dark and gloomy than any since
the creation of the world, except after the death of Christ. And it
shall be in the month of October that a great movement of the globe
will happen, and it will be such that one will think the gravity of
the earth has lost its natural balance and that it will be plunged
into the abyss and perpetual blackness of space. There will be
portents and signs in the spring, extreme changes, nations overthrown
and mighty earthquakes."
Hence, we have a VERY clear description here: Nostradamus evidently
considered it important enough to spell out in plain language. That
being the case, should we expect one or more quatrains to refer to
this sequence of events, and give a clue to the year? YES!
The central marker is X.72. In X.72 the King of Terror event is slated
for "The year 1999, the seventh month". Now in Nostradamus' Julian
Calendar, the seventh month period runs July 14th - Aug 13th i.e. it
includes the date of the eclipse - surely not a coincidence. However,
we must also note all possible interpretations of "the seventh month"
to give an overall time window of July 1st to October 10th for the
"King of Terror" (See A2 for specifics) .
Note also III.34 referring to a "monster" being seen at the time of an
eclipse. The spring which is mentioned would seem to be Spring 2000
(since the events are listed Eclipse, October, Spring). The only
possible events for spring 1999 were:
* Kosovo conflict (started in Spring)
* Tornadoes of 3/5
* Earthquake South Central Mexico 16/6 6.7 Richter Scale
However, these do not seem to match up to the events described. Note
that Spring 2000, includes the event of May 5th 2000, when the new
moon aligns with the Earth, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn,
a conjunction which only occurs approximately every 6000 years. Some
have postulated a pole shift and/ or violent seismic activity at this
time (see the work of Gribben and Plagemann, Tomaschek and others).
Interestingly, this conjunction was even commented on by Berossus, a
Babylonian astrologer who lived more than 2,300 years ago who, as the
Roman poet Seneca recounts 300 years later, predicated that an
inundation would take place 'when the planets coincided in the sign
of Cancer, and be placed that a straight line could pass directly
through all their orbs'.
Timeline (1999 - 2000)
July 1st King of Terror window opens
August 11th Total Solar Eclipse
October 10th King of Terror window closes
October Movement of globe etc.
Spring 2000 Portents (May 5th Alignment) Escalation of war.
Earthquakes
Now, the October event can only really be explained in two ways:
1. Cataclysmic earthquake(s) (10/11 Richter scale)
2. Pole Shift
(Of course an event which would trigger one or both of these is an
asteroid impact)
Nostradamus writes, in a letter of dedication written to his son,
Cesar on March 1 1555:
"Before the universal conflagration there shall happen so many
inundations that there shall scarce be any land that shall not be
covered by water..."
In the same letter he seems to indicate the present millennium as an
end to this 'revolution' (or cycle) for humanity:
"We are now in the seventh millinary which ends all and brings us
near the eighth which is where the great God shall make an end of this
revolution.."
(this figure comes from 5000 years between Biblical Creation and the
birth of Christ, and 2000 years since)
He also adds:
"I find that so many deluges and such deep floods shall befall the
world before the universal conflagration that there shall be scarcely
any land that is not covered by water: and for a long time things
shall be such that, were it not for written accounts of peoples and
countries, all would be lost. Moreover, both before and after these
floods, the rains in many countries shall be so slight, and so much
fire and so many meteorites shall fall from the sky, that nothing
shall remain that is not consumed. And all this is to occur, in brief,
before the final conflagration."
We have a clear and concise description of the passing comets effects
here: flooding and possible pole shift (October), as well as the
accompanying meteorites as the comets tail is passed through. This to
occur before the conflagration (the rise and war of the 3rd Anti
Christ).
A date proposed for the impact event by Stefan Paulus is September
23rd. He refers to X.71:
Quatrain X.71
(Paulus) The earth and air will freeze so much water, When they come
for Thursday worship: That will be will nor ever be as fair as it was,
From the four parts they come to honour it.
No existing religion has it's day of worship on Thursday (Christians
on Sunday, Jews on Saturday, Moslems on Friday). Cheetham postulates
that perhaps this quatrain refers to the third Antichrist who sets up
a new day of worship.
But Paulus interprets:
Line 1: Bitter winters following impact
Line 2: Commemoration of impact day/ obscure reference to Thor
(thunderbolt from heaven)
Line 3: Life will not be as luxurious for a time after the impact.
Line 4: All parts of the globe will remember (and have been affected
by) the impact.
September 23rd is a Thursday, and about the time of a full moon (see
the opening of the sixth seal in Revelations). I
-- for your (info@only.ok?), August 11, 1999.