Nostradamus: Predictions of Things Past
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Edit Cast Credited cast: French Soldier Roy Edmunds French Soldier Lyndell Sweetman In , John Hogue, author of several books about Nostradamus prophecies, stated that the following year a global famine would kill millions of people: The prediction of a global famine obviously and thankfully was one of many that didn't come true, but the faulty prophecy highlights another aspect of the Nostradamus industry: Nostradamus wrote in Middle French, using vague words, metaphors, and obscure, dated references.
There are dozens of different translations of his "Centuries" book, with many variations on different words and phrases.
This wide variety of interpretations helps the prophecies come "true," since if one translation doesn't really support the historical evidence, another can often be found that fits better. Often even Nostradamus scholars can't agree on what he was trying to say.
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Several of the prophecies have been the result of simple ignorance of the language, history, or both. It mentions Germany, and a war, and Hister which kind of sounds like Hitler to modern ears: No; in fact "Hister" which can also be translated as "Ister" or "Iter" is not the name of Adolf Hitler or anyone else; it is another name for the lower Danube River, a word that Nostradamus also used in his "Almanac. Sol, Mars, in conjunction with the lion, and then Marmande.
Lightning, great war, wall falls into the Garonne. What in the world does this mean? Sol and Mars may refer to the Sun and Mars or not. Condon and the other proper nouns are place names probably.
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And a fire from the heaven could be anything from a comet to an exploding sun. What do you think Roberts made of it? If you guessed alien contact, you're right; according to Roberts's learned interpretation "Fire from heaven suggests extraterrestrial spacecraft landing amid a great war on Earth. Tales of 10 Historical Predictions ].
Though widely regarded as a prophet, many who have studied Nostradamus's works find that most of the amazing prophecies attributed to him are merely the result of poor linguistic and historical scholarship. In his book "Nostradamus, Bibliomancer: The Man, the Myth, the Truth," Peter Lemesurier, a former Cambridge linguist and author of nearly a dozen books on the French seer, concludes that Nostradamus was neither a doctor nor an astrologer, nor even by his own admission a prophet.
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He merely believed that history repeats itself, and thus projected known past events into the future. Lemesurier laments that "Most of those who make such [predictions] — including the English-speaking authors of many popular books on the subject — know next to nothing either about Nostradamus, the texts, or even the sixteenth-century French in which they are written.
Few of them have ever seen an original text, or even know sufficient French As a result [such predictions] are the result of not reading what the texts actually say, but of shamelessly twisting half-understood words retrospectively to fit the proposed event, or in some cases even twisting the event itself to fit the words.