Nostradamus C4 Q43: The Isle of If becomes a military laboratory.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015
This verse is included in the discussion of
Nostradamus on War and has a direct link toC.01 Q.63
through anagrams for disseminule. It is an allusory quatrain referring
back to ancient tales for its telling of the setting for modern war.
There is an anagram for Lycaeus (and its alternate form Lyceus) which
creates a set of specific allusions.
Lycaeus
(aka Lyceus) was a surname of certain divinities worshipped on mount
Lycaeum in Arcadia, as for instance
Zeus,
who had a sanctuary on it, in which the festival of the Lycaea was
celebrated. No one was allowed to enter the temple, and if any one forced
his way in, he would have to stay only to lose his shadow within a year.
Other fates included being stoned to death by the Arcadians, called stags,
and being obliged to take to flight to save their lives.
The verse also has anagrams for
Marseille beast or
smaller beast which has connection to Nostradamus' youth
when a rhinoceros was held captive on the
Isle of If just off
the coast from Marseille an event that drew wide attention culminating
in the visit of
King Francis in 1515.
Inspired by the military potential of the island the king commissioned a
fortress to be built which later became a prison. The prisoners held
within its walls may well be the smaller beasts that lose their Lycean shadows.
Stags may also fit to the hidden reference to a smaller beast with
horns.
Anagrams that help in giving meaning to this verse include:
1. Saucy Marseille smaller beast retreats
embarass Norse not you 2. Lycaeus clue amuse realmless divines as eminences
divineness luminesce
3. VUord avert debatement on axis oil
as lotion incites mutinies 4. Paris four deter romantism reurge resonancy
by crony
imports
C4 Q43
Arms will be heard clashing
in the sky That
very same year the divine ones enemies They will want unjustly to debate
the holy laws: Through lightning and war the believers put to death.
Seront
ouys au ciel les armes batter
Celuy
au meSme les diuins ennemis Voudront loix Sainctes iniuStement
debatre Par foudre et
guerre bien croyans a mort mis.
Adjacent Anagrams plus Anagrams of highest
merit.
( ~ means
full line
used) Selection Order based on
letter rarity, word and sequence length plus line completion
L1: <~unto saucy beast marseille roSter~><assembler retreatS><smaller
beast><realmless batterers><not reStore marseille beast uuays /
suuay><reStore smaller beast><unto realms base saucy lie><as you not
lucile arms beast><embarass Street>