Michel de Nostredame has been closely associated with mysteries for centuries.
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Greater even than these mysteries might be the unsolved ones concerned Nostradamus’ own life. Although biographers seem to agree that he was born in the year 1503, they can’t seem to agree upon what day. Some say December 14th - others wonder whether it wasn’t the 19th instead. However, what allegedly occurred before his birth is even more mysterious.
Nostradamus lived during the era of the Inquisitions. He himself was always afraid of being persecuted and/or killed. Perhaps this fear was deeply rooted in his ancestral past. Some say that both his parents were Jews who would have been murdered had they not converted to Catholicism. All agree that his father definitely was threatened in this manner.
The plot then dramatically thickens. The Jewish ancestors of Michel de Nostradame are said to be descendants of the lost Tribe of Issachar. The Tribe of Issachar was one of the 12 original Israelite tribes – and was named after Jacob’s ninth son, Issachar. (Even the name Issachar is mysterious – it literally means “man of hire,” which many think refers to the hiring of Jacob’s sexual favors by Issachar’s mother, Leah. Some skeptics even refer to this as the very first “sex for drugs” deal since Leah traded an hallucinogenic mandrake for this interlude with Jacob.)
The territory of the Tribe of Issachar was eventually conquered by the Assyrians. However, the Issachar reputation for religious scholarship and prophecy has remained throughout the ages, and is considered to be a link to Nostradamus’ own mysterious talents.
Resources
http://www.fortunesnow.com/newsite/library/nostra.asp
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/nostradamus.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_of_Issachar
http://www.theskepticalreview.com/tsrmag/1front97.html
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