"Gothic", i.e. belonging to the Goths, the ancient Germanic tribes who kept all of Europe in fear from the 2nd century AD. up to the VIII . An interesting fact: the Goths originally used runic writing, but in the middle of the 4th century AD. a certain bishop Wulfila created a special, Gothic alphabet, based on Greek with borrowings from Latin. The letters in it, as in Greek, were also used as numbers.
So the first line, with my proposed emphasis on the word " dix ": "Ten Kalends of April from the Gothic fact ". Already knowing about the secret love of Nostradamus for the number nine, I dare to suggest that in this case we are talking about ten.
The April Kalends fall on the 91st day of the year, starting on January 1st. The statistics on the numerals " dix " in the first seven Centuries is as follows: in 1-42, 7-31, 7-37 " dix ", in 5-71, 5-92, 6-59 " dixsept ", i.e. . "seventeen".
It suggests adding the findings together: 10+10+10+17+17+17=81. Before the "April Kalends" one ten is missing. Perhaps it is the "Gothic Fact" the Gothic alphabet, that will give a hint. It contained analogues of many Greek letters, including Kappa, however, unlike the Greek Kappa, which is the tenth in the alphabet, in the Gothic letter Kusma ( Chosma) an analogue , was the eleventh, but had a real numerical value, like in the Greek Kappa, i.e. 20. But did Nostradamus know about this?
So "Kappa", the last missing "ten", consisting of letters, albeit not French but a dozen. As a result, the number inherent in the April Kalends has developed. At the end of this topic, I want to lay out the same quatrain in the version of the 1555 edition:
1-42 Le dix Kalendes d' Ap uril de faict Gotique,
Resuscite encor par gens malins: Le feu estainct, assemblee diabolique ,
Cherchant les or du d' A mant & P selin.
\ It differs only in the spelling of the word "April". But "how much is in this word." Not otherwise than hidden from prying eyes " KApPA " manifested itself! Sometimes, however, it is useful to look into the earliest editions of the Prophecies.
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the " alphabetic" theme, the ideas have not yet dried up.
1-98 Le chef qu'aura conduit peuple infiny
Loing de son ciel, de meurs & langue estrange:
Cinq mil en Crete & Thessalie finy,
Le chef fuyant sauue' en marine grrange.
The head that will guide the people of the endless
Far from one's own sky, from the manners and language of a stranger:
Five thousand in Crete and Thessaly finished,
The head of the escapee is rescued in the sea shed.
Neither Crete nor Thessaly are mentioned again in the first seven Centuries. It is possible to link these toponyms only to something Greek, given the mention in the quatrain of a foreign language to the Greek language.
At the time of the compilation of the Prophecies, Crete and Thessaly were part of the Ottoman Empire, but the population is Greek, and from time immemorial the Greek language has been spoken.
On this basis, according to the third line of this quatrain, "Five thousand in Greek is finished." Finished, obviously, with the help of a chapter.
Now, you should pay attention to the peculiarity of the old Greek alphabet, and the alphabet itself will not be superfluous to review.
Letter
Number
Name
transcription
αα
1
Alpha
A
Ββ
2
Beta
b/c
Γγ
3
Gamma
G
Δδ
4
Delta
d
Εε
5
Epsilon
e/e
Ϝ ϝ
6
Digamma
a/f
z z
7
Zeta
dz
Η η
8
This
e/e
Θθ
9
Theta
T
Ι ι
10
Iota
And
Κ κ
20
Kappa
To
Λλ
thirty
Lambda
l
μ
40
Mi/Mu
m
Νν
50
Ni/Nu
n
Ξ ξ
60
Xi
ks
Ο ο
70
Omicron
O
Π π
80
Pi
P
Ϙ ϙ
90
Koppa
to/x
Ρρ
100
Ro
R
Σσς
200
Sigma
With
Τ τ
300
Tau
T
Υ υ
400
And psilon
at
Φφ
500
fi
f
χ
600
Hee
X
Ψψ
700
Psi
ps
Ω ω
800
Omega
O
Ϡ ϡ
900
Sampi
ss
The sum of the meanings of all the letters of this old Greek alphabet is. 4995 . It remains to wait for the help of the "head". The first " Chef " from quatrain 1-98 is the sixth in the Centuries. Therefore, this whole, as it turned out, popular mass, under the leadership of the head, is gaining a numerical value equal to 5001 .
Everything turns out in accordance with the third line of quatrain 1-98, and after all this action, the mysterious "head" will run away, as unnecessary, having already done his glorious work. And the people Crete-Fesulano-Greek, for which he is still grateful.
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The next topic, based on the numbering of the quatrain, should have been somewhere at the very beginning of my story, but, due to complexity, I had to slightly postpone the moment of its appearance.
1-7 Tard arriue' l'execution faicte,
Le vent contraire, lettres au chemin prinses:
Les coniures. xiii. dune secte:
Par le Rousseau senez les entreprinces.
Arrived late, deed done
Head wind, letters intercepted on the way:
Conspirators XIII , from the same sect:
Through Rousseau, the two sixes are their case.
For a long time this quatrain was impregnable. Despite the presence of a numeral in it, nothing in my head connected with it. As it turned out, it is useful to rustle with dictionaries sometimes quite simply. The word senez was very confusing , well, very straight. The modern verb " sener " (to castrate) clearly did not fit, it was out of place. In the end, I rustled this: " senes " " double six two sixes in card games. Next, I went over the definitions of the number fourteen.
"Fourteen": (game Picket( Jeu de Piquet )) a combination consisting of four aces, or four kings, queens, jacks, or tens. The presence of such four cards together is worth fourteen points. It remained, based on the meaning of quatrain 1-7, to find such a combination in the texts of even earlier quatrains. And she was found! A combination of four aces ( as ) was found: 1-1 ( as sis ), 1-2 ( as sied ), 1-5 ( Ch as ses and Carc as ).
For reference: Piquet is one of the oldest card games. François Rabelais mentions her in Gargantua (1532). Then they played with a deck of 36 cards, since the end of the 17th century, sixes have been removed from the deck. The cards become 32. This is how Nostradamus, the gambler, revealed himself.
Another interesting observation: literally in the next quatrain 1-8, two more aces are found at once as in a nutshell Ser as , extremely rare in the Prophecies. They are only twice further found in seven Centuries, which is a clear confirmation of the correctness of all of the above.
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It's time to move on. The fish day has come, as indicated by the "culinary" quatrain 2-3.
2-3 Pour la chaleur solaire sus la mer,
De Negrepont les poissons demis cuits:
Les habitans les viendront entamer,
Quand Rod. & Gennes leur faudra le biscuit .
Because of the heat of the sun over the sea,
At Negrepont, the fish are half cooked:
The inhabitants will gut them
When Rod. and Genoa they will have to be re-cooked.
In my version of the translation, the word " biscuit " is not a familiar biscuit to everyone. I think that in this case, based on the meaning of the quatrain, Nostradamus is playing with the fact that bis + cuit is re-cooked.
Now about the fish " poissons ". In the first seven centuries they appear eight times: in 1-29, 2-3, 2-5, 2-48, 3-21, 4-17, 4-32, and 5-98.
" Cuit ", as an independent word, or as part of other words four times. Twice at 2-3, at 2-88, and at 5-98.
Thus, " poissons demis " half of the fish is equal to" cuit ". You should probably also pay attention to the fact that in the last indicated quatrain with fish 5-98 there is also the word " cuit ", and something else:
5-97 Da ns la cite' du grand Roy habita ble:
L'edict seuere des captifz reuoque', Gresle & tonnerre, Condom inestimable.
5.98 A quarante huict degre' climaterique,
A fin de Cancer si grande seicheresse: Poisson en mer , fleuue, lac cuit hectique