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Nostradamus and the WTC disaster
Did Nostradamus predict the World Trade Center disaster?
Nostradamus prediction on WW3:
In the year of the new century and nine months,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city...
In the city of york there will be a great collapse,
2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos
while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
third big war will begin when the big city is burning
The actual quatrain which this appears to be a riff on is:
X 72
L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois
Du ciel viendra vn grand Roy d'effrayeur
Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angolmois,
Auant apres Mars regner par bon heur.
The year 1999, seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror:
To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols,
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
It looks like someone pieced together several different quatrains (what you have has pieces of some other actual ones); Nostradamus is never that specific! This is not a valid use of the Nostradamus material, to say the least.
True prophecies are never explicit; they are usually either ambiguous, have cloaked meanings, or incorrect portions.
This is one of the few Nostradamus Quatrains to actually mention a month and year, and the arrival of this date has long been held in dread by believers in the quatrains; however, nothing of the sort happened in July of 1999, as far as I know. Sometimes the quatrains are duds, that's prophecy biz.
This is an actual quatrain which I turned up two days ago just after the disaster occurred, which had the correct resonance; you can tell when you find one because they make the hair stand up on the back of your neck (like Robert Graves said about true poetry). This is much more in keeping with the general tenor of a Nostradamus prophecy which has come true:
XII 52 *
Two bodies, one head, fields divided in two,
And then to reply to four unheard ones:
Little ones for great ones, clear evel for them,
Lightning at the tower of Aiguesmortes, worse for "Eussouis"
Here's my interpretation in 20/20 hindsight.
# The two bodies, one head, fields divided in two seems to be a vision of the twin towers.
# The four unheard ones could represent the four airliners.
# Little ones for great ones: This has a couple of interpretations; This could refer to the passengers who took it on themselves to take back the airliner which crashed in Pennsylvania; or it could refer to the hijackers themselves, the line is suggestive but it doesn't add a lot to the interpretation of the quatrain. In either case the end was fatal (clear evel).
# Aiguesmortes looks like a combination of two French words "sharp", and "deaths"; this certainly appears to be very apropos. This was the key phrase which made me think this was a hit. And even more suggestively, Eussouis (which might be pronounced 'yew-swas', with a silent s on the end) might be a garbled version of 'USA', of course the USA didn't exist when he wrote; it's not an actual French word as far as anyone knows; sometimes Nostradamus will introduce nonsense words that in retrospect make sense, e.g. 'Hisler'.
Author J.B. Hare