Nostradamus C6 Q48: The metaphor of desire in Wagner's Tristan & Isolde
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015,  September 2022

This verse offers  a further insight into how man fouls up the environment that is essential to his survival. A similar tale can be found in C6 Q46.

Each describes a metaphor that contains further material on a theme.

Their themes align with words sung by Iseult in the duet (Act 2, Scene 2) from Wagner's Tristan and Iseult and fit well to the emotions bonding Henry IV to his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrees.

BOTH (Tristan & Isolde)
Highest heaven's
oblivion of the world!
Mine! Tristan / Isolde mine!
Mine and thine!
One for ever and ever!

This duet is the motif for the trail of desire that flows throughout this opera.

In this verse a parallel trail of desire relates to the issues behind our century's problems namely insatiable human desire for goods.

The anagrams in this verse include ones for active path guides indicating that path is the cipher for a particular theme left by Nostradamus. And that path based on human desires is a branch of the trail set by the trail for emotions.

Clustered in among the anagrams we see the type of event  that we of this century are becoming aware; it involves what we have taken to be our unique brilliance and our hidden hubris that offsets our undoubted gifts.

This verse through text and anagrams, recognizes  that knowledge of the elements allows mankind to enhance all sorts of aspirations, yet the side-effects of that capability bring us to the verge of extinction.

The major side-effect that threatens us is mankind's increased ability to survive without consideration of the impact of unrestrained population means there is ever increased damaging to our planet.

It is climate change and chemical pollution of the atmosphere that are the factors raised in this verse but others emerge as the trail unfolds.

Key Ideas:

unevangelised, perfection, ungeneralised, metaphorist, actualities, electioneers, florescent, compacter, evading, permeate, active, paths, metaphors, cocreates, temperate, designature, aphorist, twice, actualise, Satanic, guides, pellet, create, steadier, tremor, direst, gundeal, tamper, floes, steered, Asia.