THE ASTOUNDING PREDICTIONS of PARROTOMAS

Nostradamus is credited with predicting the future. Yes, but this wasn't always true. As a young man, Nostradamus was interested in animal and bird intelligence. In his quest for knowledge, he left his home in Provence, France and traveled to Ethiopia. There, he established a relationship with a colorful parrot. He and the parrot spent countless hours with each other inventing a language with which to communicate. Nostradamus named the bird Parrotomus, a name that the bird treasured. Upon his return to France, Nostradamus brought Parrotomus back with him. The details of how this was accomplished have never been fully reported.

In Ethiopia, Nostradamus had discovered that Parrotomus had strange powers of prediction. He would convey these to his master with a series of chirps, tweets, and sounds of the French language. The young man passed these predictions on to his friends by word of mouth and soon established a following of those who wanted to know what the future held. Nostradamus never let on that it was really Parrotomus who was making these veracious predictions.

Constructed in the form of quatrains, the predictions were simply stated and easy to understand. However, once in a while a prediction would be created that was destined not to be proved until hundreds of years had elapsed. One example is Quatrain X167 which read as follows:

In the year of 1900 and 69, in the summer of that year,
the three-day quest to stand on the smiling surface of the nighttime orb,
came to pass with the strong-arm guidance of a man,
born of the new world, who took one small step and then knelt and spoke wisely.

Though not immediately understood, it is now easy to see that this quatrain refers to 1969, the landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong and the famous statement, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Alas, the climate in France did not agree with Parrotomus and he flew back to his homeland soon after he had helped make Nostradamus famous. However, Nostradamus needed to come up with new predictions since people had come to expect them and to rely on them. The sad part of this story is that Nostradamus had no talent for making the same kind of accurate predictions that Parrotomus had. However, he tried to do this and even published a book entitled the Amazing Predictions of Michel de Nostradamus. These predictions were not at all clear, but readers of his book accepted them because they were vague and could be made to mean anything they wanted them to mean.

In August, 2011, word came that a group of apartment builders in Provence, France had uncovered several scrolls buried in an earthen pot. On the scrolls, written in French, were 200 of the very first quatrains that Parrotomas had created and Nostradamus had popularized. These had never been published. There was also sufficient evidence in the pot to establish that the author of the quatrains had really been Parrotomus, not Nostradamus. This discovery shook the very foundations of the cabalistic world. A few of the quatrains were immediately released while others needed to be examined to determine whether they should be. Authorities feared that some of them might cause great alarm within the world populations.

There is one quatrain that is especially awaited with grave consternation. This is number X200 entitled The Year of 2000 and 12. It is rumored that only a few individuals have actually read this quatrain and they have recommended that it be banned from public view. It is expected, however, that the movement to ban will fail and that soon everyone in the world will know how it reads.