Posted on 05/31/2002 11:31:31 AM PDT by krodriguesdc
The year 999, and September month From the sky will come the great King of Terror, He will awaken the great king of the Angolmois Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
~ Nostradamus. X.72
This ominous sounding four lined prophecy is probably the most famous and the most controversial of almost 1000 prophecies that Nostradamus wrote in his book "The Centuries" in French almost 500 years ago. This quatrain, along with others in his book indicate devastating wars, probably a great world war, anytime during the period 2000 - 2007 - 2012. Every new conflict and every tragedy in the world evokes fear that the terrible happenings in the world that Nostradamus predicted is going to be a reality.
Initially, all of us thought that Nostradamus tried to foretell in this prophecy that sometime before July/August 1999 wars would start and will continue even after that period. That during July/August 1999 a powerful person will come into the scene and strike terror as "The Great King of the Mongols" - Genghis Khan did centuries back. There are many other prophecies of Nostradamus which elaborate on this theme, supposedly pertaining to World War III. It is obvious that this particular quatrain did not come true "as interpreted". But then probably every line of this quatrain has been interpreted in many different ways.
On September 11, 2001 this ominous prophecy seems to have come true, but in what a way! It is really tough to interpret Nostradamus and like I mentioned in this page long time back, one can fully understand his quatrains and the sequence of events only after the events occur. The "King of Terror" is not a person but the ultimate and most severe act of Terrorism that this world has ever seen - the Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center twin towers and the Pentagon. And the terror indeed came from the sky. The CNN headline screamed - "Terror from the Sky".
In view of these events, we obviously have to re-interpret the quatrain. In many books one would find that 999 has been interpreted as 1999, sept month as either September or the 7th Month, i.e. July and Angolmois as Mongol. If "sept month" is September, then obviously, the "King of Terror" - not a person but meaning THE ultimate Terrorism, has come from the sky! I also feel that Angolmois is not an anagram of Mongol or Chinese as many author says, but means America (maybe the word 'Anglo' is there and many times in the book he has referred to America as the England of the west. So it means that the King of America will be awakened (George Bush, in one of his speeches said that terrorism has awakened the American Giant) as a result of this "King of Terror" and probably will start an attack / war as evident from the last line, in which he will have good luck (which might subsequently lead to the third world war). This of course leaves the meaning of 999 unclear. It is possible that there might be some other explanation or it might actually mean 1999 - Nostradamus have been slightly off the mark many times - maybe intentionally or by mistake - like Hitler had been mentioned as Hister in a quatrain. Take into consideration the fact that during his time the Julian Calendar, not the present Gregorian Calendar (he predicated this change also) was used ... this might account for a slight difference though it does not explain the two years difference. The theories of prophecy also say that timings of prophesized events vary due to collective human actions. In any case, this is a momentous event worth reporting by Nostradamus, particularly if this is the precursor to WW-III and a turning point in history. If the general prophecies of the events relating to this time turn out to be true, we could see this event leading to World War III in the near future. Let's see...
To be frank, most of the prophecies of Nostradamus are vague, indirect, without any clear reference to the time or place of their occurrence and are open to varied interpretations. However, there are those prophecies which seem to predict specific events - even specifying the time and place of occurrence, which mentions names of kings and leaders, which refers to modern day mode of travel, warfare and lifestyle so accurately that these have evoked keen interest all through. Volumes of commentaries and interpretations have been written on his prophecies, so much so that his prophecies have never been out of print during these five hundred years.
The nature of these prophecies are such that most of them can be tallied with actual events only after the event has occurred. But the fun of it is speculating beforehand (with intelligent analysis of course) the turn of events from these prophecies. But then, sometimes the events turn out to be stranger than our imagination. There are literally thousands of websites dedicated to these prophecies. But the objective of this site is to concentrate on the events supposed to happen between the period 1999 and 2012 by focusing on the relevant quatrains of Nostradamus and similar prophecies of other people. It may be noted that the events may turn out to be very different eventually. Gradually the focus will shift on matters of more spiritual nature to find a connection between the objectives of our lives, the happenings on this planet and ultimately on why it is pointless for human beings to fight among each other.
Pope'inochio has a certain ring.
(Who are Jack and Rexella? ... )
LOL, what, never heard of the Van Impe Travelling Circus?
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