Nostradamus C2 Q78: The monster spawned from laboratories on the Isle d'If.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

The anagrams in this verse provide a strong but strange link to an island a few kilometers offshore from Marseilles ( earm les Iſl).

There is an anagram for the city itself but there is also a sequence for Isle d'If rearm ( dif -rearm - les I).

Now this isle would have been well known to Nostradamus in his youth for it is the place where a rhinocerus was located in an interrupted sea voyage in the first part of the sixteenth century.

As he grew older he would have known that the French king was having that island fortified to protect France from the maritime powers of its enemies.

But the anagrams also link to an earlier thread in C2 Q74 where the name Jotun can be found. This was the Nordic name for a third race of human-like creatures and they were giants who were considered to be somewat smelly, mutant monsters by the other two races.

In the current verse we have several descriptive anagrams that relate to these properties. These include pungent ( gent Pun) and giantesque (i que et ſang). The modern story then is shaped by this knowledge to tell how one newly emerged species of monsters begins in the Marseilles region through material from the depths of the seas. This material impacts all people around the Mediterranean as a result of a sects experimentation with genetic cloning.