2-8 … Reieteront les goffes fondements:
Prenant leurs loix premieres & humain es,
Chassant, non tout, des sainctz les cultements.
2-9 Neuf ans le regne le maigre en paix tiendra,
P uis il cherra en soif si sanguinaire:
Pour luy grand peuple sans foy & loy mourra ,
T ue' par un b eau c oup plus debonnaire.
2-10 A uant long temps le tout sera range'
Nous esperons un siecle bien senes tr e:…
Kappa, Theta, Lambda are the letters of the Greek alphabet, known for the fact that the letters in it also have numerical values. Kappa=20, Theta=9, Lambda=30. It would be too obvious and easily accessible if in this quatrain they carried precisely this meaning. Everything is very close, but somewhat different and more interesting. In the alphabet, as you know, all the letters are also in order. Serial number of Kappa=10, Theta=8, Lambda=11. This is the true meaning of the lines of this quatrain. Everything is very simple, why it remained unnoticed by anyone before – it is not clear.
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Since I have already touched on the topic of the Greek alphabet, I will dwell on two more quatrains, close in spirit, but completely different in content.
1-42 Le dix Kalendes d'Auril de faict Gotique,
Resuscite' encor par gens malins: Le feu estainct, assemblee diabolique, Cherchant les or du d'Amant & Pselin.
Ten Kalends of April of the Gothic fact,
Resurrected again by evil nations:
The fire is extinguished, the assembly of the devil,
In search of the gold of Amant and Pselin.
Calends is an ancient Roman term for the first day of each month. April kalends are the first of April. The counting of other dates, for example, preceding the calendars, was carried out in the reverse order, i.e., for example, "ten days before the April calendars." Thus, it is very tempting to modify the phrase of the first line by adding the preposition "before", but it is not there.
"Gothic" or "Gothic"? From the point of view of modern vision, given the "diabolical assembly", etc., "Gothic" suggests itself. But, firstly, it would be correct – " Got h ique "; secondly, probably, the modern meaning of the word "Gothic" had a slightly different meaning in the time of Nostradamus.
"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.