Apocolyptic beasts

[theVOID]

Found this in a mythology book and thought it would be interesting to share:

when john has his first sight of god in glory, he sees "four living creatures full of eyes" surrounding his throne. between them, the quartet symbolize the greater part of gods creation: one is like a lion, representing carnivores< another an ox for the herbivores. the third has the face of a man, indicating the human presence, while the fourth, an eagle, stands for the birds of the air. the eyes apparently indicate perpetual watchfulness.

other creatures are less benevolent. when the fifth angel blows his trumpet, he unleashes a plague of locusts upon non believers - "those of mankind who do not have the seal of god upon their foreheads". these heavenly locusts are unlike any seen before, for they appear "like horses arrayed for battle". they have human faces with women's hair but bear the tails of scorpions, equiped with venomous stings. once they have completed their ravages, the sixth angel's trumpet introduces fresh horrors in the form of a flood of armed horsemen riding on mounts that have heads like lions, breathing smoke and sulphur, and serpents for tails

John is the person having this vision, wich is described along with another vision he had in The Book of Revelation. The author, John, wrote the book while in exile on the greek island of Patmos.

if anyone knows more on this subject please share

The island of Patmos is famous for it's Magic Mushrooms... That is about all you need to know to make sense of it

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You miss the point Zen. I've already said twice why you should consider revelations. It's not my opinion of Shakespeare that is my point here... but the accessibility of his work to a modern audience... and how that is similar to the book of revelation... I think you dismiss it out of hand - like I am pretending to dismiss Shakespeare for the same reason. Geddit?

Shakespeare never claimed his work was anything but fiction.