CENTURIA II · QUATRAIN XLVIII — READING B
The Hanged Commander
La grand copie qui passera les monts,
Saturne en l'Arc tournant du poisson Mars:
Venins caches soubs testes de saulmons,
Leur chef pendu a fil de polemars.
The great host which will pass the mountains,
Saturn in the Bow, Mars turning from the Fish:
venoms hidden under the heads of salmon,
their chief hanged by the thread of polemars.
THE MASTER SAYS…
Nostradamus wishes to repeat once again that quatrains of this type can have multiple interpretations. Due to a mistake made by one of the leaders of a superpower, an international conflict will occur. He says that the situation will arise from the aggravation of relations between two superpowers. To John’s question whether the sentence “The commander of the war will be hanged” means that this person will commit suicide, Nostradamus replied: not exactly, it is impossible to do without a rope and a noose, and it is impossible to make a noose without a knot, and the knot in this case characterizes the situation in which the leader of this country will find himself. And although he will bring public apologies to everyone, he will nevertheless be symbolically hanged by like-minded people from his own political party. And indeed, he will eventually be squeezed so hard that he will no longer be able to control the situation, which, in the end, will end in complete fiasco for both conflicting sides. The word “horde” is quite close in meaning to the word “army.” The fact is that one of the superpowers, harboring hostility toward the USA, will resort to the use of force, which in an ethical sense will be completely unjustified and condemned by many countries. Nostradamus says that the details of this action are not entirely clear to him, and that time is needed for history to assess all the impropriety of this demarche. He believes that the United States of America will be involved in the conflict, and that the clash of interests will occur in the Atlantic Ocean. He sees some cylinders submerged in water, and next to them a half-sunken ship, as well as a submarine drifting on the surface of the ocean. This expression symbolizes a submarine armed with nuclear weapons. Be that as it may, this incident will lead to nothing. The events will unfold near the shores of Cuba.