Nostradamus’ Quatrains and the next Balkan War
Next Balkan War:
I/74
After tarrying they will move forward by rowing for Epirus.
The great relief effort will be toward Antioch:
The black curly-haired one will strain hard for the Empire,
Brazen Barb(arossa) will be roasted on a spit.
This is one of those quatrains just on the edge of becoming intelligible as events happen. It has had other close possibilitites through the years, the Barbary pirates, the Battle of Lepanto, even Hitler is suggested. But the attack toward Syria from the Balkans, the black curly haired leader under the double eagle of the Hapsburg, struggling for the Empire, sounds alot like Milosovic and his plans. Roasted on a spit suggests hoisted by a rocket, perhaps.
II/3
Because of heat like that of the sun upon the sea,
Around Negroponte the fish will become half cooked:
The inhabitants will come to make the first slice into them.
When (in) Rhodes, and Genoa their (food) will fail.
This could be describing the effect of an asteroid strike in the Aegean, or it could be the effect of an act of nuclear terrorism in Yugoslavia. The first five quatrains of Century II seem to be related and point to the same scenario, that of the aftermath of the last Balkan war. II/1 suggests WWI-like conflict in Turkey; II/2 also focuses on the Islamic holy war; II/3 is quoted above, and relates to the nuclear terrorism; II/4 is a suggestion that Libya will be involved; and II/5 points to a time period between march 1998 and February 2000. II/6 is the famous quatrain on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as if to make the point sharper.
II/52
For several nights the earth will shake,
In the spring two great efforts together:
Corinth and Ephesus will swim in two seas,
War set in motion by two valiant in combat.
This is another quatrain in the process of emerging. The earth of this spring has shaken with the bombs of NATO; the two great efforts could be the Balkans and the situation in Iraq. Greece and Turkey would indeed be on opposite sides in the conflict, and Ephesus is the first church mentioned in Revelations, giving the whole thing an apocalyptic twist. The two valiant fighters could be Milosovic and Saddam.
II/32
Milk, blood, frogs prepared in Dalmatia,
Conflict given, pest near Balennes
The cry will be great from all of Slavonia,
Then will be born a monster near and inside Ravenna.
This quatrain falls in the midst of others of great significance. II/29 tells of the teacher from the east; II/30 describes the third anti-christ; II/31 relates an ecological disaster; and II/32 is a caution about terrorism in the Balkans. The 1st line points to biological agents being prepared and released in the Balkans or along the Dalmatian coast. The monster born in Ravenna is obscure, but could have significance as events develop.
II/84
Between Campania, Siena, Florence, Tuscany,
Six months nine days without a drop of rain:
The foreign tongue in the Dalmatian land,
It will overrun: devastating the whole world.
This quatrain suggest that events in the Balkans could effect the weather, possibly through the green house effect, and thereby devastate the whole world.
II/96
A burning torch will be seen in the night sky,
Near the end and the source of the Rhone,
Famine, weapons: the help provided is late.
When Persia turns to invade Macedonia.
This key quatrain is also listed as one of the thirteen quatrains in the so-called apocalyptic sequence. It suggests either an asteroid strike or a rocket attack in conjunction with an Iraqi involvement with the Balkan conflict. The rocket strike seems to be aimed at Provence and the mouth of the Rhone, echoing other quatrains about the destruction of the maritime city, Marseilles.
III/3
Mars and Mercury and the silver (Moon) in conjunction.
Towards the south there will be a great drought:
From the bottom of Asia an earthquake will be reported,
Corinth (Greece) and Ephesus (Asia Minor) then in a troubled state.
Another quatrain in the process of revealing itself. The astronomical window is March 1998 to the summer of 2000, and the events are already taking place. Sub-Saharan Africa is fast disappearing in a great drought and plague, last month’s severe earthquake in the Himilayas qualifies as the bottom of Asia, and Greece, the Balkans, and Ephesus, Turkey (and that old apocalyptic referrence), are definitely in a troubled state.
III/7
The fugitives, fire in the sky on the pikes,
Next conflict will be that of the frolicking ravens,
From earth they cry for aid and heavenly assistance,
When near the walls (borders?) will be the combatants.
Here we have a quatrain that could be taken from this week’s newspapers. The fugitives, the fire in the sky on the pikes of Cruise missiles, all describe the events of the past week. The 2nd line identifies the place of the next conflict, perhaps indicating the start of WWIII, as Kosovo, where, on the Field of Blackbirds, the Turks slaughtered a Serbian army in 1389. The Kosovar Albanians are crying to heaven (the NATO air-strikes?) for aid, and the referrence to the borders suggest the latest flash-point of the captured soldiers on the borders of Kososvo and Macedonia. Altogether too close for comfort.
IV/55
When the crow on the tower put together by bricks,
For seven hours will continue to squawk:
Death presaged, by blood the statue is stained,
Tyrant murdered, and to the gods the people pray.
If the last quatrain could be filled in out of last week’s headlines, then this one could be fulfilled in the next few weeks. The battle monument outside Pristina is suggested by the crow on the tower. For seven hours, (days, weeks?) a warning will sound, presaging the death of the Tyrant. The stained statue could relate to despoiling religious sites in the area, while the Tyrant’s death could be caused by a missile strike or a commando raid. (See I/74)
V/48
After the great afflication of the scepter,
Two enemies will be undone by them:
The fleet from Africa will appear to rise up before the Hungarians,
By sea and land horrible deeds will take place.
This quatrain and the one before it, V/47, suggest an attack by Saddam Husein in conjunction with Libya during a Balkan, Greece/Turkey, dispute.
V/70
The regions subject to Balance,
Will trouble the mountains with a great war:
Both sexes made captive, beholden to (their liberators) and all of Byzantium,
So that at dawn they will cry out from land to land.
Another really close one. The region subject to Balance, or adjustment, is the Balkans under scrutiny by NATO, the EU, and so on. The mountains are at the moment troubled by a great war. The people of Kosovo are made captive by the situation, and cry out from land to land, from mosque roof at morning prayers and by internet, around the world.
V/91
At the great market (European Community?) called that of the liars,
Of all Torrent and the field of Athens:
They will be surprized by the light horsemen,
By the Albanians — Mars, Leo and Saturn in their signs.
This quatrain follows V/90, a prediction of Nuclear Terrorism, and suggests the time period of the late 1990’s. (Best guess astrology for last line equals 3/23- 27 1999, the start date of the current Kosovo Crisis.) The Balkan powers all see the EU and NATO as liars, and perhaps they are, rushing into the fields of Athens, the battle fields of north eastern Greece, Macedonia and Kosovo. The light horsemen could be the guerillas of the KLA or the Serbian death-squads, with a suggestion of the pale horsemen of Death in the Apocalypse.
VI/21
When those of the Northern pole are united together,
In the East will be great fear and dread:
The newly elected man is upheld — the great one trembles,
Rhodes, Byzantium will be stained with Barbarian (Libyan-Arab) blood.
Again this quatrain follows one of significance on another, somewhat parallel track. VI/20 relates the importance of Pope John XXIII in reforming the church by accepting the vessel of the “enduring race.” Here we see the basic agreement of the Northern powers, NATO and Russia, causing fear, or perhaps pretend fear, in the East. Clinton and Saddam are contrasted in line 3, and the outcome of the current Kosovo situation suggested in line 4.
X/58
At the time when (in) mourning the feline monarch
Will make war upon the young Macedonian:
Gaul to stagger, the bark (of St. Peter) to be in jeopardy,
To try Marseilles in the West entreaty (negotiations).
This quatrain suggests that Clinton, our Leo President, will, in a time of mourning, perhaps for the captured and possibly executed soldiers in Kosovo, make war on the young Macedonian leader of the KLA. This, as we saw above appears to be the trigger incident that brings the wider Islamic world into the picture. Gaul, southern France, will be staggered by terrorism and the Church itself will be threatened, as well the secret indicated by the “bark.” Only some kind of entreaty, or negotiations, in Marseilles has any chance to break the deadlock
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