reply to post by ressiv
Hi Ressiv,
forgive my delay of a few days in responding -- but then, as you replied to something I posted in March of 2010 I hope you won't mind.
Yes, I'm aware of that quatrain. I've read a suggestion that it relates to New York City, but because NYC is not located at 45 deg latitude and so
they can't link it better on that score, they opine that the "45 degrees" was the angle at which the incoming whatever-it-is was to be first sighted.
That doesn't great deal of sense to me (or to put it another way, it simply seems a bit thin as an argument), whereas a latitude figure of 45 degrees
seems more reasonable as an interpretation.
However, I wouldn't say that Yellowstone
has to be the point of reference at 45 degrees latitude (if that is the meaning of that phrase). If we
could figure out which city (if any) would fit the "New City" reference then that might help to narrow things down a bit.
Okay, I must get back to catching up on this thread.
EDIT to add: thinking about it more, there is also no particular reason why a reference to "45 degrees" has to relate to latitude any more than it
might connect to longitude. So, if there is a major city with a name that includes "New" that is located at or near 45 deg longitude, it might be
relevant. (All this is assuming that the writings of Nostradamus have any relevance, and also that "45 degrees" in any way refers to a coordinate
measurement.)
There's also no reason to assume that this quatrain has to relate to the US, or even a "western" country, and further, that the name of the city needs
to be in English.
For example, consider the city of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia. Formerly known as Gorky, it's located at 56° 20′ N, 44° 0′ E (pretty close to 45°
longitude), and being the fourth-largest city in Russia it certainly counts as "great". And further, its name translates as "Lower New Town" (or
"city"). So, we've got a possible candidate there.
In fact, there is actually a city in Russia called Veliky Novgorod -- Great New Town (or City) -- which matches exactly with the quatrain.
In summary, I doubt that we can assign this quatrain to Yellowstone. Rather, it seems that there are other locations that are likely candidates for
it.
Regards,
Mike
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