Whether you start with OMAR or with OSAMA, the Master created a new word using the invention technique (see below), which incorporates two words in a sequence that for us is unclear, this being something for the experts. However, the first operation should be the apocope, omission of a letter or syllable at the end of a word, in Osama, transformed into Osam. And the last operation is the introduction of two N. The letter N, in Portuguese and English, meaning North in its abbreviated form, is currently used in the French language as the abbreviation for Name. There are two names for those considered to be to blame, more than 400 years later.
Therefore, if the above analysis is correct, Master Nostradamus shows us by "playing" with small numbers or inventing the word "Normans" - so easily confounded with Normands but to which he gives a completely different meaning - his ability to launch curtains of disguise and illusion, enticing when seen as artistic acts of stage magic but terribly disappointing for those who seek to take hold of the gold hidden within the rich mine called Centuries. Gold to be withdrawn, as a rule, only after removing the veils creating a deceiving mirage and when the Master of Time, an authority in the stage of life, allows it.
©A.L.Faria
March 2002
Anagram: word or phrase formed by the transposition of letters from a word or phrase. The name immediately used when, in common language, one speaks of "play on letters or words". Thus: RAPIS=PARIS. This is a simple example of the extraordinarily complex prophetic, but ciphered, language of Nostradamus. He used ancient idioms and idioms of his time, astronomic and astrological annotations and many other code techniques in his verses, as described by David Ovason in his excellent "The Nostradamus Code" (Arrow - 1998), page 179: "in one of his letters, Nostradamus admits to the obvious - he had written his quatrains in a strange language, a language that was scabreux (scabrous, but in literature meaning dangerous, difficult), as he called it. In the vocabulary of the mysteries, this language has many names: in astro-alchemy it is usually called Green Language… but it is also known as the Language of the Birds, in a reference to the tales that originated it."
And the author gives as examples, referring to the work of Nostradamus, an alphabetical but - according to him - incomplete list of the techniques of this Language (some are common figures in the Portuguese language and can be consulted in any normal orthographic reference book) that surround, like a grammatical mirage, the events portrayed in the Centuries. Amongst these is the anagram mentioned above. Also anastrophe, the reverse of a word. Antonomasia, the use of an epithet or nickname instead of the given name or the use of a given name to represent a general idea. Aphaeresis, the omission of a letter or syllable at the beginning of a word. Apocope, the omission of a letter or syllable at the end of a word. The association of Arcanum: this literary technique represents the basic aspect of the Green Language: it is the use of specialized words in such a way that they can be interpreted as and originate other words that only have a meaning for those who know it. Archaism: the use of the old names of things and places. Epenthesis: the addition of a letter or syllable in the middle of a word. Homonyms: words with the same sound and/or same spelling but with different meanings or origin. And more, such as invention: making of a new word only superficially related with a word in familiar language. In Nostradamus, the familiar language is usually Greek or Latin, but he also invented from Hebrew and European languages such as English, German, Italian and Provencal. An example given by Ovason is sedifragues in VI-94, from the Latin sedem frangere.
And many other processes… Interested? Confused? Other techniques can be consulted in the abovementioned book. |
