Michel de Nostredame (1503 – 1566), Interpretations
Most of the quatrains deal with disasters, such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, and battles – all undated and based on foreshadowings by the Mirabilis Liber. Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms; others concern a single person or small group of people. Some cover a single town, others several towns in several countries. A major, underlying theme is an impending invasion of Europe by Muslim forces from further east and south headed by the expected Antichrist, directly reflecting the then-current Ottoman invasions and the earlier Saracen (that is, Arab) equivalents, as well as the prior expectations of the Mirabilis Liber. All of this is presented in the context of the supposedly imminent end of the world – even though this is not in fact mentioned – a conviction that sparked numerous collections of end-time prophecies at the time, not least an unpublished collection by Christopher Columbus. Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Fire of London, the rise of Napoleon and Hitler, to the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center, but only ever in hindsight. Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as "retroactive clairvoyance" (postdiction). There is no evidence in the academic literature to suggest that any Nostradamus quatrain has ever been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events. In particular, no quatrain suggests, as is often claimed by books and films on the alleged Mayan Prophecy, that the world will end in December 2012...
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There is a lot to be said about this sixteenth century pharmacist who turned to the occult. Nostradamus published weather predictions for crops, when to sow, when to reap, that kind of stuff was his day job, that he himself pioneered. Also known as 'The Seer', it is said that he believed that his visions were a gift from God and that it was his duty to warn mankind. So he wrote poems of one hundred verses, called centurys baring four lines a verse called quatrains. It is said that these are riddled with warnings.
Urban myth, folklore or fact, there are a lot of stories about Nostradamus.
Could Nostradamus really see into the future?
Most of the quatrains deal with disasters, such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, and battles – all undated and based on foreshadowings by the Mirabilis Liber. Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms; others concern a single person or small group of people. Some cover a single town, others several towns in several countries. A major, underlying theme is an impending invasion of Europe by Muslim forces from further east and south headed by the expected Antichrist, directly reflecting the then-current Ottoman invasions and the earlier Saracen (that is, Arab) equivalents, as well as the prior expectations of the Mirabilis Liber. All of this is presented in the context of the supposedly imminent end of the world – even though this is not in fact mentioned – a conviction that sparked numerous collections of end-time prophecies at the time, not least an unpublished collection by Christopher Columbus. Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Fire of London, the rise of Napoleon and Hitler, to the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center, but only ever in hindsight. Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as "retroactive clairvoyance" (postdiction). There is no evidence in the academic literature to suggest that any Nostradamus quatrain has ever been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events. In particular, no quatrain suggests, as is often claimed by books and films on the alleged Mayan Prophecy, that the world will end in December 2012...
^Thank you Wiki.
There is a lot to be said about this sixteenth century pharmacist who turned to the occult. Nostradamus published weather predictions for crops, when to sow, when to reap, that kind of stuff was his day job, that he himself pioneered. Also known as 'The Seer', it is said that he believed that his visions were a gift from God and that it was his duty to warn mankind. So he wrote poems of one hundred verses, called centurys baring four lines a verse called quatrains. It is said that these are riddled with warnings.
Urban myth, folklore or fact, there are a lot of stories about Nostradamus.
Could Nostradamus really see into the future?
