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.


I'm surprised that nobody has connected this to the Twin Tower disaster. Okay, so he got the date a little out, but during that time the calender has been altered.

The great king of terror (terrorists) came from the sky (a plane) and now Mars is reigning (the great war against terrorism).

Think it's plausible?

No, its a hoax. You can see an explantation of it HERE

Magikman

No, the fraudulent prophecy goes like this...


"In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
Two brothers torn apart by Chaos,
while the fortress endures,
the great leader will succumb,
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"

Nostradamus 1654

There are about a billion and a half false Nostradamus prophecies floating around in the e-mail. Once I read one about Bill Clinton's involvement with Monica... isn't there one about the Columbia floating around?

hi,
i think basically as we all know that his book on prophecies has been converted in to english from latin...so in the making many latin words and sentences couldnt be correctly interpreted.....and in process making it difficult to co-relate with his poetic forms.
but surely cannot undermine his theory because he is the one who predicted the "london fire" and" the rise and fall of hitler"!

might be controversial but predicting "HISTER" for "HITLER" way back in the 1700's
is itself extraordinary.....

MG,

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that the quatrain itself was a hoax, but that others have tried to associate it with the World Trade Center disaster without any success. It had already been wrongly touted as the prophesy heralding a great war before the turn of this century, which never transpired. That didn't stop others from trying to interpret it as describing the WTC disaster, though. The operative word here is 'interpretation', and that's where the plausibility is lost. The prophesy failed to live up to its first interpretation, how can you justifiably apply it to the WTC disaster? And no, there wasn't that much of a gap between the Julian (old style) calendar and the Gregorian (modern) when the change occurred, as noted; "Gregory’s calendar differs from the previous Julian calendar by only 3 days every 400 years." When initiated, there was only a difference of eleven days between the two calendars. Besides the great difference between dates, how exactly does this line in the quatrain "To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols" fit into the WTC equation? In my opinion there's far too much ambiguity present to see a correlation.

The problem with Nostradamus's prophecies is significant, most are far too vague to derive any measure of reliability or credibility, and given the centuries that have passed since their publication, hundreds of thousands of events have occurred which lend themselves to being associated with his 'visions'. Thus, it is possible to find at least one verse that can be interpreted as almost any given event, provided that the interpretation is done after the event has already happened.

Magikman

* - Dev, Nostradamus wrote mainly in 'Early Modern French' making sporadic use of archaic words derived from Latin and Greek. The problem with the word 'Hister' is that he used the word in the quatrain to specifically mention a river, not a person. The prophecies were written in the 1500's, not 1700.

thanks...
next time i will see to it i get my facts right1

I agree that Nostradamus can be manipulated into meaning a lot of things. I'm sure I could twist one into prophesising what I'm going to have for breakfast tomorrow or something.

I was merely offering one of these manipulations.

I personally believe that this prediction was about the 1999 August UK Solar Eclipse.

the quatrain at the top post actually goes like this

'In the year 1999 and seven months, from the sky will come a great,
frghtening king. To raise again the great King of the Mongols.
Before, after, Mars shall reign happily.'

mars is the god of war so it could mean that wars will rage both before and after this period, but what ever the rest means only the light knows.

the other real quatrain is this:

'The machine of flying fire shall come to trouble the great besieged
cheif. Within there shall be so much sedition that those abandoned
shall be in despair.'

this could mean that modern military weapons could be used during a seige of a city or country.

Hmmmm I see what you are saying. But as was said previously in this thread, Nostardamus can be twisted into almost anything to suit people's needs.....
Shame really

For any prophesy to mean anything nowadays, there would have to be ratifying evidence in the form of another person saying similar things such as a riddle from Mother Shipton or Cayce.

umm....if you make hundreds and hundreds of prophecies...odds are you might get a couple right, you know?

Why should every single prophecy is vaguely written like this one??

I know...if you wanna prove a point use specifics.