New, great, obese … is the way Nostradamus refers to some mysterious cities. These are most probably cities of the future that had no names in the 16th Century. They could be identified with the hints he gives. In one case, he gives the precise latitude - and this corresponds to New York, precisely. Some contend it is Geneva, but Geneva is at 46° and not 45.5. The criteria for regrouping the quatrains are based on some identified keywords.
New (NY?) City
10.49 New City
"Garden of the world near the new city,"
In the path of the hollow mountains:
"It will be seized and plunged into the Tub,"
Forced to drink waters poisoned by sulfur.
1.24 New City
At the New City he is thoughtful to condemn;
the bird of prey offers himself to the Gods.
After victory he pardons his captives.
At Cremona and Mantua great hardships will be suffered.
9.92 New City
"The King will want to enter the new city,"
Through its enemies they will come to subdue it:
"Captive free falsely to speak and act,"
"King to be outside, he will keep far from the enemy."
A5809 Camp New City
Discovered fact, prince captive, pass the sea
Peace not peace, broken treaty, not married
Camp of the new city, lady, to fortify
The arrow hard piece will run to the heart
[The point and horn will run to the forage]
6.97 Great New City
"At forty-five degrees the sky will burn,"
Fire to approach the great new city:
"In an instant a great scattered flame will leap up,"
When one will want to demand proof of the Normans.
1.87 Shaking and volcanic phenomena.
Earthshaking fire from the center of the earth
will cause tremors around the New City.
"Two great rocks will war for a long time,"
then Arethusa will redden a new river.
Posted by: Laury
Not necessarily the New City since the word used is "neusue" instead of neuve - although it means the same.
Posted by: YahnAmar
Le terme "neusue" signifiant la même chose que "neuve", il doit s'agir de la cité neuve.
2.53 The Great lady
The great plague of the maritime city
Will not cease until there be avenged the death
"Of the just blood, condemned for a price without crime,"
Of the great lady outraged by pretense.
Posted by: Raul Lence King
Maybe New York.
Posted by: Laury
Peut-être New York.
Great city
6.96 Great city with soldiers
"Great city abandoned to the soldiers,"
Never was mortal tumult so close to it:
"Oh, what a hideous calamity draws near,"
Except one offense nothing will be spared it.
2.54 Great City
"Because of people strange, and distant from the Romans"
Their great city much troubled after water:
"Daughter handless, domain too different,"
"Chief taken, lock not having been picked."
3.50 Républic of the Great city
The republic of the great city
Will not want to consent to the great severity:
"King summoned by trumpet to go out,"
"The ladder at the wall, the city will repent."
4.8 Great City
The great city by prompt and sudden assault
"Surprised at night, guards interrupted:"
The guards and watches of Saint-Quentin
"Slaughtered, guards and the portals broken."
9.82 City Great assiégée
"By the flood and fierce pestilence,"
The great city for long besieged:
"The sentry and guard dead by hand,"
Sudden capture but none wronged.
6.73 Monk city Great
"In a great city a monk and artisan,"
"Lodged near the gate and walls,"
"Secret speaking emptily against Modena,"
Betrayed for acting under the guise of nuptials.
3.84 Temple, sex, Great City
"The great city will be thoroughly desolated,"
Of the inhabitants not a single one will remain there:
"Wall, sex, temple and virgin violated,"
"Through sword, fire, plague, cannon people will die."
9.48 Great Ocean City
"The great city of the maritime Ocean,"
Surrounded by a crystalline swamp:
"In the winter solstice and the spring,"
It will be tried by frightful wind.
Posted by: Laury
Potentially New York.
Posted by: RaulentRoi
New York potentiellement aussi !
6.98 Great City Stained (see note below), temple, River - link with Great New City in VI-97
"Ruin for the Volcae so very terrible with fear,"
"Their great city stained, pestilential deed:"
To plunder Sun and Moon and to violate their temples:
And to redden the two rivers flowing with blood.
Posted by: John
Important note: Stained In the old French text is "taincte". Meanwhile one refers to the light being turned out as being "étaincte"; And this is the negation of "taincte". Therefore, the "taincte city" could be translated into the "City of lights".
See the theme of symbolism for the collection of quatrains that contain the word "taincte" in the Centuries. It is unusually frequent.
Posted by: RaulentRoi
Taincte ne serait-il pas la négation de "ectaincte" ? Si c'était le cas, alors la cité taincte serait la cité allumée, ou des lumières.
Voir aussi le thème des définitions dans la contrée de la bibliothèques pour la définition du terme taincte.
Other cities
7.15 Cité de l'insubre
"Before the city of the Insubrian lands,"
for seven years the siege will be laid;
"a very great king enters it,"
"the city is then free, away from its enemies."
Posted by: John
Maybe the city of Tiberium (Tiberia).
Posted by: RaulentRoi
Peut-être la ville de Tèbres.
3.46 Plancus the city - woul be Grenoble - Plancus year -44
The sky ( of Plancus' city ) forebodes to us
"Through clear signs and fixed stars,"
"That the time of its sudden change is approaching,"
"Neither for its good, nor for its evils."
4.52 Besieged City
"In the besieged city men and woman to the walls,"
Enemies outside the chief ready to surrender:
"The wind will be strongly against the troops,"
"They will be driven away through lime, dust and ashes."
5.84 City unmeasured
"He will be born of the gulf and unmeasured city,"
Born of obscure and dark family:
He who the revered power of the great King
Will want to destroy through Rouen and Evreux.
Posted by: John
Nowadays, it is New York or Hong Kong. But in antiquity, it was Babylonia.
4.82 Old ruined city
"A throng approaches coming from Slavonia,"
The old Destroyer the city will ruin:
"He will see his Romania quite desolated,"
Then he will not know how to put out the great flame.
Posted by: John
Maybe Babylonia. Old reminds of antique and/or Jerusalem.
5.8 Burnt city /attacked / reduced to dust
"There will be unleashed live fire, hidden death,"
"Horrible and frightful within the globes,"
"By night the city reduced to dust by the fleet,"
"The city afire, the enemy amenable."
Posted by: John
Rome was burned during Roman antiquity under Nero. The Christians were wrongly accused of the crime. But in this quatrain, the city is burned following a battle.
Posted by: Optimus
Rome fut entièrement brûlée lors du 1er siècle et les Chrétiens accusés par Néron. Ce quatrain fait référence à une cité brûlée après une bataille.
5.33 Rebellion city, Nantes
Of the principal ones of the city in rebellion
Who will strive mightily to recover their liberty:
"The males cut up, unhappy fray,"
"Cries, groans at Nantes pitiful to see."
Posted by: John
Corresponds to riots during the revolutionary era - after the death of Nostradamus.
8.96 Babylonia
"The sterile synagogue without any fruit,"
"will be received by the infidels,"
"the daughter of the persecuted (man) of Babylon,"
"miserable and sad, they will clip her wings."
5.81 Solar City / of sun, seven months, seven days
"The royal bird over the city of the Sun,"
Seven months in advance it will deliver a nocturnal omen:
"The Eastern wall will fall lightning thunder,"
Seven days the enemies directly to the gates.
5.12 Strange city (in the French text only), Ausbourg, Lake Geneva (referred to by Europeans as Leman),
"To near the Lake of Geneva will it be conducted,"
By the foreign maiden wishing to betray the city:
"Before its murder at Augsburg the great suite,"
And those of the Rhine will come to invade it.
6.76 Ancient city, Temple
"The ancient city the creation of Antenor,"
Being no longer able to bear the tyrant:
"The feigned handle in the temple to cut a throat,"
The people will come to put his followers to death.
