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Etna Aten Thera THERA THIRA SANTORINI – ETNA ATEN ETC. 1 1 1 Estant assis de nuict secret estude IS the very first line soul being sits of a night, covertly researching ATEN SET ETNA DUST SET S ATEN (asteroid) SET ETNA DUST (the great Pall) SECRET SECT ANTEDATES Centuries SECRET SECT would be those of the babel of many tongues: we ATTESTED U.N SECRETE (hide) CINCTURES STAIDNESS have been calling them the Anun.naki, Titans, Giants, Oannes… SADISTS ASSIST ANT - INDUCES SECRET TEST S is the sky rune for those from Ursa Major direction. It CITES SATANISTS ASSISTED UN or “CITES also is the Celtic zodiac rune for April 15 – May 12 U. N. SATANISTS ASSISTED” CINCTURE’S stability…the equator? The asteroid belt? Cinctures plural of cinc·ture (Noun) A girdle or belt. A ring at either end of a column shaft. (This also sounds like the ‘Haoma’ of Zoro.aster. U = ‘heavenly’ from the word Uranite… ‘N’ is the sky rune for the constellation Eridanus, meaning Enki (an Anu) who could be the SADISTS The “ANT” would be the Mantids of Cassiopeia, the hubrid breeding program, see beneath here 8 21 3 Passant le pont mil milles embleront Passing the bridge the amphibians will dispatch a million (star-gate) see the Haoma on the right. The mantid in red circle ON (Oannes) TRANSPOSE ILL PLANET - NOT EMBLEMS or EMBLEMS TRANSPOSE ILL PLANET (Earth) – NOT the ON TRANSPOSABLE MILL (Milky Way) PLANET NOT PASS RIM - NOBLE LOBSTERMEN RESEMBLE PAST PATRON So the Oannes/Enki/Anu may be involved in moving Earth to the new orbit which is not past the edge of our solar system. EMBLEMS are the stars, or those with the ICON (V). NOBLE is in Libra/October. TRANSPOSABLE MILL means across the universe 3 25 4 V (Andromeda) PORT (carried) SEER (Nostradamus PARAGENESIS (the order of form) PROCTOR (V) UPSIDE The sperm donor INTO PARAGENESIA GENRES RAPPORT (gen. engineering) abductee painted CONDITION IN U (astronomical) Q (orbit) many pictures of CONTRA (against) PROP (normal order) his abduction SEEING SPADE ICON INCORPORATION So is Cassiopeia in league with Andromeda Council? experiences Or are they under scrutiny by the Andromeda Council? Note the mantid NOSTRADAMUS ‘SAW’ THE ICON. 3 25 – the « ICON » forum quatrain Qui au Royaume Navarrois parviendra Who will attain to the kingdom of Navarre (the orbiting planetoid Quand le Sicile et Naples seront joints When Sicily and Naples will be joined: (due to Etna’s great rending Bigore et Landres par Foix loron tiendra (It) Will encompass Bigorre and Landes through Foix and Oloron D'un qui d'Espaigne sera par trop conjoint. Of one who will be too closely allied with Spain (Ferdinand-blonds) 9 35 see 3 25 Et Ferdinand blonde sera descorte And blond Ferdinand (king) will be detached (observer) TALL WHITE Quitter la fleur, suivre le Macedon, To abandon the flower, (Earth) to follow the Macedonian: (warrior) Au grand besoin faillira sa routte, In great need his course will fail (they have a DNA failure) Et marchera contre le Myrmidon And will run opposing the Myrmidons (ant people/mantids) 2 40 1 Un peu apres non point longue intervalle Shortly afterwards, without a very long interval TELLURIAN PAUPER POINT (to) LOTION PERSON TELLURIAN = worldly PAUPER (collator) LOTION PERSON: greys URANITE - UTERINE PUPAE ILL NATURE URANITE of the heavens or the skies EUROPEAN - PERSIA UUINTER AGE - UUINTER AGE = ice age UNITES ENTIRE UUATERLINE (ice) 1 4 1 Par l'univers sera faict un monarque One king will be made in the universe – NANAR (8 85) UNIVERSAL SUPER LVNAR NURSERIES SUPER LVNAR NURSERIES the orbiting planetoid RAN IN QR Q … fear Norma A (Dec 22) RAN (god) in queer orbit: their orbit is elliptical around the moon FEAR ROMAN PULVINAR As stated in 3 25 (ICON forum) FEAR EMPTY THRONE can mean SEAFARERS AFRICA E U rain q exactly that but throne also means in Libra. Cassiopeia was the REASSURE PARQS SUN ROUSE (goes orange) crowned queen, so this could allude to an empty planetoid. (I had just today made enquiries of an abductee about this) and AFRICA to EUROPEAN UNION rain all round (permanent) See what the abductee Angie said last page QORAN QUARAN SEAFARERS are the Oannes The pulvinar nuclei (nuclei pulvinares) are a collection of nuclei located in the pulvinar-thalamus. The pulvinar part is the most posterior region of the thalamus. In Ancient Roman religion a pulvinar was an "empty throne" or cushioned couch for occupation by a deity. The pulvinar is usually grouped as one of the lateral thalamic nuclei. The word is derived from the Latin pulvinus for "cushion". The thalamus has multiple functions. It may be thought of as a kind of switchboard of information. It is generally believed to act as a relay between a variety of subcortical areas and the cerebral cortex. In particular, every sensory system (with the exception of the olfactory system) H Parks & A UUebber© NOSTRADAMUS MT ETNA AND THERA Page 1 2 43 1 Durant l'estoille chevelue apparente During the appearance of the bearded star ANT PARENT RESULT UNRELATED NUDE PUPA ANT PARENT these are the Mantids of the Cassiopeia nursery ATEN RATTLED… STELLA UUHEEL APPEAR TURNED APPEAR TURNED… is this a huge hologram? Because of: CONSTELLATION UNALTERED …NOT~CELESTIAL NOT~CELESTIAL TILE ENRAPTURED - DREUU UPPER APPEAL TILE of the false rapture DREUU UPPER APPEAL (pray) Peer upuuard apple leap – pure uurapped (rapture) Pure rapture apple is a Friday… leap is in Scorpio 2 59 1 Classe Gauloise par appuy de grande garde LOUISE the name of any asteroid ASGA’D APPRAISE LOUISE - POLARISE , UPPED In Norse religion, Asgard is one of the Nine Worlds (Ennead) ASSUAGE DANGER SCALES REED AGENDA (harvest and is the place of the Norse Gods (Vanir = Cassiopeia planet) EULOGIAS (skull & bones) ARRANGE DEGRADE OIL USAGE SCALES pun for the reptilians & Libra REED Oct 28 – Nov 24 APPEARS PERSIA (Iran) CLASS Unready (Note – in Scorpio…see above) 1 20 1 Tours, Oriens, Blois, Angers, Reims et Nantes All cities/towns in France. Pathway between Tours and Reims? ATEN SETS ETNA LISBON LANES BOIL SET A similar method on the same path has been mentioned before OUR MEISTERSINGER TESTAMENTS GNOSIA OUR MEISTERSINGER master of these works is also the STATEMENTS STATE TIME’S ROLES RIMESTER who joins with the O.R. (Andromeda Council) O. R, STATESMEN, RIMESTERS TESTAMENT: (to this) GNOSIA knowledge, the statements of which REASSIGN BOLIS ROUTES (plural) include knowledge of using time. LANES = Ocean currents ATEN is an asteroid – any asteroid. SET is Easter. BOLIS ROUTES: the asteroid co-ordinates are being re-arranged, not without effect STATESMEN IN OTHER LINES ARE THE PLEIADEIANS Angers Coordinates is 47.4736° N, 0.5542° W Blois Coordinates is 47.5939° N, 1.3281° E Nantes Coordinates is 47º13'05"N, 1.33° 10 W Reims Coordinates is 49.2581° N, 4.0322° E Bearn Bigorre : 46°57′N Longitude: 7°27′E (249 miles apart if it means Berne) in distress through fire from the sky Geographically, Bigorre consists of two distinct areas: the plains to the north around Tarbes rising into the foothills and the high mountain slopes to the south, rising to the Pic du Midi de Bigorre ANCONA ITALY AUCH SOUTHWEST FRANCE BABEL - IRAQ BERGUNDY CAMPAGNA COMPANIA SOUTH WEST ITALY FOIX – SOUTH WEST FRANCE GENOA HUNGARY NICE, MONACO, PISA LONDON MALTA MT OLYMPUS NARBONNE SOUTH EAST FRANCE NEGREPONT NEW YORK NIMES PARIS PO RHODES ROME SPAIN TIBER TOURS WEEP MILAN, WEEP LUCCA AND FLORENCE CLOSER LOOK AT THE AREAS TO BE HIT BY THE ASTEROID “TOUTATIS” (?) WHICH WAS RE- DISCOVERED LATE 1988 WITH A FOUR YEAR ORBIT Formerly named “Arathusa” METEORITE ~ COMET 2 30 To the Romans through Babel This was done direct from the towns named by Nostradamus When a bearded star will fall in Artois PATHWAYS: BABEL TO ROME" = IRAQ TOWARDS ITALY SUSA SIENA BOEOTRIA ERETRIA VIVIERS TOURNON MONTFERRAND PRADELLES 1:66 AUCH LECTOURE MIRANDE 1:46 TOURS ORLEANS BLOIS ANGERS REIMS NANTES 1:20 TOWARDS AQUITAINE BY BRITISH ISLES" 2:1 PISA ASTI FERRARA TURIN CEVENNES MTNS STH FRANCE OVERLOOKS THE RHONE CORINTH (SOUTH WEST ATHENS) EPHESUS (WEST TURKEY) H Parks & A UUebber© NOSTRADAMUS MT ETNA AND THERA Page 2 5. 98 see 2.3 and go to 10 100 4 RENNES in footnotes At the forty-eighth climacteric degree, NORTH & WEST FRANCE (RENNES, ORLEANS) At the end of Cancer very great dryness: July 22nd Fish in sea, river, lake boiled hectic LAKE BOILED HECTIC Béarn, Bigorre in distress through fire from the sky. ASTEROID HIT? 2. 3 see 5.98 Because of the solar heat on the sea ASTEROID HIT? From Negrepont the fishes half cooked: NEAR GREECE/ITALY The inhabitants will come to cut them, When food will fail in Rhodes and Genoa. From da Vinci: Creatures of the water will die in boiling water. (Nostradamus 5 98 “sea lake river boiled hectic”) It shall seem to men that they see new destructions in the sky, and the flames descending there from shall seem to have taken night and to flee away in terror; they shall hear creatures of every kind speaking human language; (Off Worlders) EITHER METHANE AFIRE AND/OR “RAY GUNS” they shall run in a moment, in person, to divers parts of the world without moving (by STAGE GATE) amidst the darkness they shall see the most radiant splendours. (The darkness in the stage gate – looking out) or the darkness of the SACK CLOTH when all “colours will be the same”. O marvel of mankind! What frenzy has thus impelled you! You shall hold converse with animals of every species, and they with you in human language.
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