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He bares his teeth and fights and kills And secrets food in secret hills And ugly in his fear, he lies To kill marauders, thieves and spies. In nineteen hundred and twenty six Build houses light of straw and sticks. For then shall mighty wars be planned And fire and sword shall sweep the land. Not every soul on Earth will die As the Dragon's tail goes sweeping by. Not every land on Earth will sink But these will wallow in stench and stink Of rotting bodies of beast and man Of vegetation crisped on land. Man flees in terror from the floods And kills, and rapes and lies in blood And spilling blood by mankind's hands Will stain and bitter many lands. When pictures seem alive with movements free When boats like fishes swim beneath the sea When men like birds shall scour the sky Then half the world, deep drenched in blood shall die. But the land that rises from the sea Will be dry and clean and soft and free Of mankind's dirt and therefore be The source of man's new dynasty. And those that live will ever fear The Dragon's tail for many year But time erases memory You think it strange. But it will be. And when the Dragon's tail is gone Man forgets, and smiles, and carries on To apply himself—too late, too late For mankind has earned deserved fate. For those who live the century through In fear and trembling this shall do. Flee to the mountains and the dens To bog and forest and wild fens. His masked smile, his false grandeur Will serve the Gods their anger stir. And they will send the Dragon back To light the sky—his tail will crack Upon the Earth and rend the Earth And man shall flee, King, Lord, and serf. And before the race is built anew A silver serpent comes to view And spew out men of like unknown | _--~ To mingle with the Earth now grown * Cold from its heat, and these men can Enlighten the minds of future man To intermingle and show them how To live and love and thus endow The children with the second sight. A natural thing so that they might Grow graceful, humble, and when they do The Golden Age will start anew. For storms will rage and oceans roar When Gabriel stands on sea and shore And as he blows his wondrous horn Old worlds die and new be born. A fiery Dragon will cross the sky Six times before this Earth shall die Mankind will tremble and frightened be For the sixth heralds in this prophecy. But slowly they are routed out To seek diminishing water spout And men will die of thirst before The oceans rise to mount the shore. And lands will crack and rend anew You think it strange. It will come true. For seven days and seven nights Man will watch this awesome sight. The tides will rise beyond their ken To bite away the shores, and then The mountains will begin to roar And earthquakes split the plain to shore. And in some far-off distant land Some men—oh such a tiny band Will have to leave their solid mount And span the Earth, those few to count The Dragon's tail is but a sign For mankind's fall and man’s decline. And before this prophecy is done | shall be burned at the stake, at one My body singed and my soul set free You think | utter blasphemy You're wrong. These things have come to me This prophecy will come to be. Who survives this [unreadable] and then Begin the human race again. But not on land already there But on ocean beds, stark, dry and bare. And flooding waters, rushing in Will flood the lands with such a din That mankind cowers in muddy fen And snarls about his fellow men. These verses were on the outer wrapping of the scrolls: | know | go, | know I'm free The following verses were found on a scroll in a separate jar. They appear to have been written at the same time as the verses above. The signs will be there for all to read; When man shall do most heinous 4 deed Man will ruin kinder lives; By taking them as to their wives. wi And murder foul and brutal deed; When man will only think of greed. anon that this wil cont be be. And man shall walk as if asleep; He does not look—he many not peep ecreted Inis, for nis Will e 4And iron men the tail shall do; And iron cart and carriage too. | Found by later dynasty. {The kings shall false promise make; And talk just for talking's sake A dairy maid, a bonny lass | {And nations plan horrific war; The like as never seen before | Shall kick this tome as she does pass {And taxes rise and lively down; And nations wear perpetual frown. / And five generations she shall breed {Yet greater sign there be to see; As man nears latter century. Before one male child does learn to read. | {Three sleeping mountains gather breath; And spew out mud, and ice and _ {death. This is then held year by year 4 And earthquakes swatlow town and town; In lands as yet to me Till an iron monster trembling fear Junknown. Eats parchment, words and quill and ink And mankind is given time to think. 1 And Christian one fights Christian two; And nations sigh, yet nothing do And yellow men great power gain; From mighty bear with whom they've lain. These mighty tyrants will fail to do; They fail to split the world in two. But from their acts a danger bred; An ague, leaving many dead. And physics find no remedy; For this is worse than leprosy. Oh many signs for all to see; The truth of this true prophecy. And only when this comes to be Will mankind read this prophecy But one man's sweet's another's bane So | shall not have burned in vain. — Mother Shipton : (Editor's Note: There are many lines here that unfortunately describe our twentieth century. Some of the thoughts that come to mind: "Christian one fights Christian two" could describe the ongoing conflict between Catholics 4 and Protestants in Ireland; an "ague" is an illness or great sickness; the "yellow men” could be interpreted by many as the Chinese or Japanese; and the “mighty bear" could well be Russia.) And only when this comes to be Will mankind read this prophecy But one man's sweet's another's bane So | shall not have burned in vain. NEXUS ¢ 39 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1995