The Comet of Nostradamus

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The year 1999, seventh month
from heaven will come a great King of terror;
to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois.
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck

    The verse was widely seen as a presage of an atomic missile stike, or a cataclysmic meteor collision with earth in July 1999. This was most likely a failure on the part of the commentatators and not the seer.

    The verse may easily refer to the birth of a future terrorist/tyrant since all souls, after all, originate in heaven. Nostradamus could have used the phrase "from heaven will come" simply to connote that this individual is to be an instrument of destiny, a figure in divine design. "Angolmois" may be an anagram for Mongols (as most think), or it could mean the French city of Angouleme. So this grim King might be either a new Ghengis Khan or a new Charles IX, a scion of the house of Angouleme, who presided over the infamous St. Barthomomew's massacre of 1572. It will be some decades, then, before the accuracy of this quatrain can be determined.

    Too much ominous significance was placed on Quatrain X-72 for an understandable reason: the date was so close to the year 2000.