Nostradamus C1 Q43: Style changes used to illustrate the prophet's method.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

A great number of Nostradamus' prophecies contain information about the process he used to initiate his contact with the future.

In this verse the pillar of porphry and the gnarled rock become sodium chloride via the anagrams.

The two names Chieron and Undine are also found in the anagrams and these identify his source of emotional stimulus as The Metamorphoses by Ovid. That he should use this classic reference seems quite apt even though he openly claimed he was writing about the great change to take place in the period five hundred years after his prophecies were first dreamed.

It is in this era that his visions on the cloning of the Christ gene and animal enhancement draw closest to Ovidian creatures of myth.

# Undine: Water nymph first named by Paracelsus a Renaissance alchemist and physician whose writings included a book on nymphs and salamanders.
# Chieron: Chief Centaur in Gk mythology who they considered to be the father of medicine, prophecy, music, archery and hunting. Tutor of Achilles.