why are the Nostradamus prophecies so obscure?
Nostradamus explains that this was done to avoid persecution from the Inquisition. He also gives this as the reasoning why the quatrains are not in chronological order. Nostradamus left his predictions in the form of several letters, almost 1000 4-line verses called quatrains (the Centuries), and a collection of 6-line verses called sixains. The prophesies are not sequential by date. Some interesting coincidences have been observed between the quatrain number (in the Centuries) and the last two digits of the year of the corresponding event, but this is not uniformly true. Nostradamus almost always concealed his meanings in anagrams, symbolism, and mythological allusions, and to top it all off Nostradamus wrote primarily in “early Modern French,” with a mixture of archaic words mostly derived from Latin and Greek. Confusing huh? He also incorporates words from the “Languedoc” or Provencal dialect of southern France. That is why so many of his prophecies are left wide open to interpretat
