Nostradamus C2 Q18: Two Asteroid barrages setting period of wars with different hazard potentials.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015, 2022

The text of verses C2 Q46 and C2 Q18 gives strong reasons for considering them as deliberately paired in order to deliver a message Nostradamus considered important. Both have variations on the term fire in the sky which then provides indicators of the period to which they relate. In this verse the text alludes to Celestial stones and fires making the sea stony and in so doing references an older style perception of meteorites.

  The anagrams in this verse  seem to relate to parallel events over  several centuries with  references that relate to improvements in knowledge about the biological processes that take over during illness and in whose absence death is more likely than not.

Also emerging from the presence of the anagrams is the tale of war that rages in both periods. This involves the same warring agencies in each period one of which is European and the other Middle Eastern. 

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C2 Q18
Original Verse in English and French (Benoit Ed.)

New, impetuous and sudden rain
Will suddenly halt two armies.
Celestial stone, fires make the sea stony,
The death of seven by land and sea sudden.

Nouuelle et pluie ſubite impetueuse
Empeſchera ſubit deux exercites
Pierre ciel feux faire la mer pierreuſe
La mort de ſept terre et marin ſubites

Adjacent Anagrams plus Anagrams of highest merit. (~ means full line used)
Selection Order based on letter rarity, word and sequence length plus line completion

L1: <imp Neuuest uuileS ouue pellet bite><impute uuileS use oNe bite uuell>

L2: <breadthuuiSe x re-excites><bauudieSt cheerS emptiEs><Episteme Subedit Search><Speech mEts bit urSa uxed><exectutrix Speech sEem><Subedit uxe sEmite preacheS><~uxex cEmetries Speech Subedit era><Speech re-excites bit urSa exude>

L3: <creePier life uSe aerial fuxe><emperial reuSer efflux air reSpire ice><premier aerial uSe efflux ice>afire

L4: <maLes proteSted antiSerum bit><metaLs / SubLimates Stored><tetrameter SubnormaLities reSted><preteSted in buSiest mortaL><~tetrameter Speed ruinS mortaLs bite~><suitabLe Stormed><bestiaL uraniSm><inSubria Least> <meter urbanities preteSted><buSiest mortaL raiment><mortaLise preteSted meter>

Table listing anagram occurrences (1-23) in Nostradamus' Prophecies

1: antiserum, sublimates, subnormalities, executrix, pretested, bauudiest, tetrameter, urbanism, Insubria, flaxier, creepier, efflux, impute,
2: breadth-uuise, urbanities, sublimate, bi-metals, cemetries, exciters, neuuest, tulip, uxex,
3: Martinus, reexcites, suitable, Baius,
4: protested,
5: preaches, stormed, bestial, morals,
6: uuest, uuet,
7: reexcite, episteme, rexcite, speech, abuser, suueet,
8: mortalise, subedit, Emirate, pellet, debit, afix, hears,
9: mortals, searches, Aschere / reaches,
10: raiments, busiest, Salome,
11: ruins,
12: emperial, metals,
13: cheers, fuelx,
14: empties,
15: bites,
16: refail,
17: Nouuell, raiment, duetx, aerial,Ieuus/ uuise,
18: moral, uuell, crier,
19: uuiles, reiect / recite,
20: respire,
21: chasers / crashes,
22: mortal,
23: -

Key Ideas:

executrix, pretested, antiserum, sublimates, subnormalities, breadth-wise, bawdiest, tetrameter, efflux, Insubria, creepier, impute, cemetries, newest, urbanities, Martinus, tulip, stormed, West, Baius, protested, episteme, preaches, bestial, morals, sweet, speech, re-excite, abuser, Emirate, subedit, suitable, aerial, pellet, afix, searches, mortalise, busiest, fuelx, emperial, Jews, hears, metals, debit, crashes, Nowell, cheers, ruins, mortals.