In forty years, Irida will not appear,
Forty years from now, all days will be visible:
The earth parched with dryness will grow,
And big floods when seen.
It would seem that there is a correspondence with quatrain 1-15, but here everything is not so simple and unambiguous. The level of the task is completely different. « L ' Iris » Irida, a rainbow, appears in the Centuries further only in quatrain 6-44, in a slightly different form, which is a common thing for the times of the Author. " Lyris " that's what she is in it. All attempts to find at least some connection with the statements of quatrain 1-17 failed.
Much later, the solution was nevertheless found, therefore, this episode of my book is inserted here artificially, without my personal chronological order, which I wrote about earlier, wanting to reflect here all the stages of my comprehension of the works of Nostradamus in real time. Wanting, and not worrying about my mistakes of the past, to lay out my thoughts and conjectures in full, in chronological order, knowing that the scales on which this work will eventually be placed will outweigh the cup of criticism against me.
So my judgments from my own future.
The differences between quatrains 1-15 and 1-17, however, are significant. At 1-15 70 times, at 1-17 40 years. Moreover, a very specific goal appears in quatrain 1-17: to find Irida a rainbow linked to forty years. Until I went all this long way to today's understanding of everything that happens in the Centuries, I could not comprehend the Author's intention, now I can.
In order to get to the desired section of the Centuries, in order to contemplate the secret radiance of the rainbow, it is only necessary to count forty " ans -" that happened from the beginning of the Centuries. Moreover, as well as as separate words, and as part of others. True Scripture is the 1557 edition (Utrecht). Editions of 1555, based on my conclusions, are just some "reconnaissance before the battle."
This place is found in quatrain 2-13. It is in it, in the composition of the word " sans ", that the fortieth " ans -" Centurius is concluded.
2-11 S on aspre gloire vn chascun la craindra,
Mais ses enfantz du regne gettes hors.
2-12 Y eulx clos, ouuerts d'antique fantasie
L'habit des seulz seront mys a` neant,
Le grand monarque chastiera leur frenaisie:
R avir des temples le tresor par devant
2-13 L e corps s ans ame plus n'estre en sacrifice.
I our de la mort mys en native
LYRIS , composed of the capital letters of the shown section of the Centuries, is revealed by means of the secret writing method conceived by Notre Dame a long time ago, one might say, at the time of his first literary experience, in a slightly different format, not so obvious, because in the Prophecies it is too light decisions are not to be expected.
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And the game in counting years will be continued by the next quatrain of the first centurion.
1-48 Vingt ans du regne de la Lune passes,
Sept mil ans autre tiendra sa monarchie:
Quand le Soleil prendra ses iours lasses,
Lors accomplit & mine ma prophetie.
Twenty years of the reign of the moon have passed,
Seven thousand years another will hold his monarchy:
When the sun takes its tired days,
Then my prophecy will be completed and fulfilled.
From the vague and, obviously, very long lines of this quatrain, two amazing coincidences were revealed.
Twenty " ans -": according to the 1557 edition, it turns out that it is the twentieth such combination of letters from the beginning of the first Centuria that falls on the first line of this quatrain. So the author is absolutely right.
Seven " mil ans ": the result of putting these two words together will give " milans ", the city of Milan in the plural. Exactly seven Milans are found in the first seven Centuries.
I will add that this word, perhaps intentionally, is played up by the Author later. In the ninth Centurion, in quatrain 95, the mysterious Milannoile appears, and in the eighth Centurion, in quatrain 13, the mysterious fleet of a thousand years appears classe ' a ` mil ans ".
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The following interesting quatrain that I want to consider will certainly be greatly appreciated by fans of fantasy. Closing your eyes, you can imagine how nine brave daredevils are flying in a space rocket to unknown planets.
1-81 D'humain troupeau neuf seront mis a` part,
De iugement & conseil separes: Leur sort sera divise' en depart, Kappa, Thita, Lambda mors, bannis esgares.
Of the human herd, nine will be separated,
From judgment and advice are separated:
Their fate will be different from the start
Kappa, Theta, Lambda are dead, banished, lost.
As a child, I, like, probably, all the boys of the Earth, dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Fate decreed otherwise for me, and today I walk on the ground with my feet, as Nostradamus walked.
This quatrain is about the nine neuf , which the Author separated, placed aside, in part . The number of " part " in the singular in seven centuries is exactly nine.
In addition, a little later, at the beginning of the second Centuria, such an interesting section was discovered, on which, in the most wonderful way and in full accordance with the methods of Nostradamus, PART, and humain , and neuf , and even tr + oup + eau ":
2-8 Reieteront les goffes fondements:
Prenant leurs loix premieres & humain es,
Chassant, non tout, des sainctz les cultements.
2-9 Neuf ans le regne le maigre en paix tiendra,
P uis il cherra en soif si sanguinaire:
Pour luy grand peuple sans foy & loy mourra ,
T ue' par un b eau c oup plus debonnaire.
2-10 A uant long temps le tout sera range'
Nous esperons un siecle bien senes tr e:
Kappa, Theta, Lambda are the letters of the Greek alphabet, known for the fact that the letters in it also have numerical values. Kappa=20, Theta=9, Lambda=30. It would be too obvious and easily accessible if in this quatrain they carried precisely this meaning. Everything is very close, but somewhat different and more interesting. In the alphabet, as you know, all the letters are also in order. Serial number of Kappa=10, Theta=8, Lambda=11. This is the true meaning of the lines of this quatrain. Everything is very simple, why it remained unnoticed by anyone before it is not clear.
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Since I have already touched on the topic of the Greek alphabet, I will dwell on two more quatrains, close in spirit, but completely different in content.
1-42 Le dix Kalendes d'Auril de faict Gotique,
Resuscite' encor par gens malins: Le feu estainct, assemblee diabolique, Cherchant les or du d'Amant & Pselin.
Ten Kalends of April of the Gothic fact,
Resurrected again by evil nations:
The fire is extinguished, the assembly of the devil,
In search of the gold of Amant and Pselin.
Calends is an ancient Roman term for the first day of each month. April kalends are the first of April. The counting of other dates, for example, preceding the calendars, was carried out in the reverse order, i.e., for example, "ten days before the April calendars." Thus, it is very tempting to modify the phrase of the first line by adding the preposition "before", but it is not there.
"Gothic" or "Gothic"? From the point of view of modern vision, given the "diabolical assembly", etc., "Gothic" suggests itself. But, firstly, it would be correct " Got h ique "; secondly, probably, the modern meaning of the word "Gothic" had a slightly different meaning in the time of Nostradamus.
"Gothic", i.e. belonging to the Goths, the ancient Germanic tribes who kept all of Europe in fear from the 2nd century AD. up to the VIII . An interesting fact: the Goths originally used runic writing, but in the middle of the 4th century AD. a certain bishop Wulfila created a special, Gothic alphabet, based on Greek with borrowings from Latin. The letters in it, as in Greek, were also used as numbers.
So the first line, with my proposed emphasis on the word " dix ": "Ten Kalends of April from the Gothic fact ". Already knowing about the secret love of Nostradamus for the number nine, I dare to suggest that in this case we are talking about ten.
The April Kalends fall on the 91st day of the year, starting on January 1st. The statistics on the numerals " dix " in the first seven Centuries is as follows: in 1-42, 7-31, 7-37 " dix ", in 5-71, 5-92, 6-59 " dixsept ", i.e. . "seventeen".
It suggests adding the findings together: 10+10+10+17+17+17=81. Before the "April Kalends" one ten is missing. Perhaps it is the "Gothic Fact" the Gothic alphabet, that will give a hint. It contained analogues of many Greek letters, including Kappa, however, unlike the Greek Kappa, which is the tenth in the alphabet, in the Gothic letter Kusma ( Chosma) an analogue , was the eleventh, but had a real numerical value, like in the Greek Kappa, i.e. 20. But did Nostradamus know about this?
So "Kappa", the last missing "ten", consisting of letters, albeit not French but a dozen. As a result, the number inherent in the April Kalends has developed. At the end of this topic, I want to lay out the same quatrain in the version of the 1555 edition:
1-42 Le dix Kalendes d' Ap uril de faict Gotique,
Resuscite encor par gens malins: Le feu estainct, assemblee diabolique ,
Cherchant les or du d' A mant & P selin.
\ It differs only in the spelling of the word "April". But "how much is in this word." Not otherwise than hidden from prying eyes " KApPA " manifested itself! Sometimes, however, it is useful to look into the earliest editions of the Prophecies.
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the " alphabetic" theme, the ideas have not yet dried up.
1-98 Le chef qu'aura conduit peuple infiny
Loing de son ciel, de meurs & langue estrange:
Cinq mil en Crete & Thessalie finy,
Le chef fuyant sauue' en marine grrange.
The head that will guide the people of the endless
Far from one's own sky, from the manners and language of a stranger:
Five thousand in Crete and Thessaly finished,
The head of the escapee is rescued in the sea shed.
Neither Crete nor Thessaly are mentioned again in the first seven Centuries. It is possible to link these toponyms only to something Greek, given the mention in the quatrain of a foreign language to the Greek language.
At the time of the compilation of the Prophecies, Crete and Thessaly were part of the Ottoman Empire, but the population is Greek, and from time immemorial the Greek language has been spoken.
On this basis, according to the third line of this quatrain, "Five thousand in Greek is finished." Finished, obviously, with the help of a chapter.
Now, you should pay attention to the peculiarity of the old Greek alphabet, and the alphabet itself will not be superfluous to review.
Letter
Number
Name
transcription
αα
1
Alpha
A
Ββ
2
Beta
b/c
Γγ
3
Gamma
G
Δδ
4
Delta
d
Εε
5
Epsilon
e/e
Ϝ ϝ
6
Digamma
a/f
z z
7
Zeta
dz
Η η
8
This
e/e
Θθ
9
Theta
T
Ι ι
10
Iota
And
Κ κ
20
Kappa
To
Λλ
thirty
Lambda
l
μ
40
Mi/Mu
m
Νν
50
Ni/Nu
n
Ξ ξ
60
Xi
ks
Ο ο
70
Omicron
O
Π π
80
Pi
P
Ϙ ϙ
90
Koppa
to/x
Ρρ
100
Ro
R
Σσς
200
Sigma
With
Τ τ
300
Tau
T
Υ υ
400
And psilon
at
Φφ
500
fi
f
χ
600
Hee
X
Ψψ
700
Psi
ps
Ω ω
800
Omega
O
Ϡ ϡ
900
Sampi
ss
The sum of the meanings of all the letters of this old Greek alphabet is. 4995 . It remains to wait for the help of the "head". The first " Chef " from quatrain 1-98 is the sixth in the Centuries. Therefore, this whole, as it turned out, popular mass, under the leadership of the head, is gaining a numerical value equal to 5001 .
Everything turns out in accordance with the third line of quatrain 1-98, and after all this action, the mysterious "head" will run away, as unnecessary, having already done his glorious work. And the people Crete-Fesulano-Greek, for which he is still grateful.
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The next topic, based on the numbering of the quatrain, should have been somewhere at the very beginning of my story, but, due to complexity, I had to slightly postpone the moment of its appearance.
1-7 Tard arriue' l'execution faicte,
Le vent contraire, lettres au chemin prinses:
Les coniures. xiii. dune secte:
Par le Rousseau senez les entreprinces.
Arrived late, deed done
Head wind, letters intercepted on the way:
Conspirators XIII , from the same sect:
Through Rousseau, the two sixes are their case.
For a long time this quatrain was impregnable. Despite the presence of a numeral in it, nothing in my head connected with it. As it turned out, it is useful to rustle with dictionaries sometimes quite simply. The word senez was very confusing , well, very straight. The modern verb " sener " (to castrate) clearly did not fit, it was out of place. In the end, I rustled this: " senes " " double six two sixes in card games. Next, I went over the definitions of the number fourteen.
"Fourteen": (game Picket( Jeu de Piquet )) a combination consisting of four aces, or four kings, queens, jacks, or tens. The presence of such four cards together is worth fourteen points. It remained, based on the meaning of quatrain 1-7, to find such a combination in the texts of even earlier quatrains. And she was found! A combination of four aces ( as ) was found: 1-1 ( as sis ), 1-2 ( as sied ), 1-5 ( Ch as ses and Carc as ).
For reference: Piquet is one of the oldest card games. François Rabelais mentions her in Gargantua (1532). Then they played with a deck of 36 cards, since the end of the 17th century, sixes have been removed from the deck. The cards become 32. This is how Nostradamus, the gambler, revealed himself.
Another interesting observation: literally in the next quatrain 1-8, two more aces are found at once as in a nutshell Ser as , extremely rare in the Prophecies. They are only twice further found in seven Centuries, which is a clear confirmation of the correctness of all of the above.
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It's time to move on. The fish day has come, as indicated by the "culinary" quatrain 2-3.
2-3 Pour la chaleur solaire sus la mer,
De Negrepont les poissons demis cuits:
Les habitans les viendront entamer,
Quand Rod. & Gennes leur faudra le biscuit .
Because of the heat of the sun over the sea,
At Negrepont, the fish are half cooked:
The inhabitants will gut them
When Rod. and Genoa they will have to be re-cooked.
In my version of the translation, the word " biscuit " is not a familiar biscuit to everyone. I think that in this case, based on the meaning of the quatrain, Nostradamus is playing with the fact that bis + cuit is re-cooked.
Now about the fish " poissons ". In the first seven centuries they appear eight times: in 1-29, 2-3, 2-5, 2-48, 3-21, 4-17, 4-32, and 5-98.
" Cuit ", as an independent word, or as part of other words four times. Twice at 2-3, at 2-88, and at 5-98.
Thus, " poissons demis " half of the fish is equal to" cuit ". You should probably also pay attention to the fact that in the last indicated quatrain with fish 5-98 there is also the word " cuit ", and something else:
5-97 Da ns la cite' du grand Roy habita ble:
L'edict seuere des captifz reuoque', Gresle & tonnerre, Condom inestimable.
5.98 A quarante huict degre' climaterique,
A fin de Cancer si grande seicheresse: Poisson en mer , fleuue, lac cuit hectique