#seabeast

Medieval French Apocalypse Tapestry depicting satan granting power to the Beast Of The Sea.

Mine looks a lot different because I don't like drawing cats. sorry.

13 The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

The beast of the sea is essentially what people are referring to when the reference The Antichrist wrt revelation. It is a powerful leader that those who are not "saved" are compelled to worship like christ. It's a false second coming and often used to reference a tumultuous and godless political leader. But when you think about such a thing in context, it seems less obvious. A powerful leader that people worship? of course they do. (i like the language of "who can wage war against it?" and the correlation of military power to divinity.) The beast of the sea is a figure of salvation in a time of great need, it just happens to be a fake one set up by satan to trick people who are already apparently so evil theyre damned inevitably into believing they have some power still left.

The correlation of the beast of the sea to Ulysses is.... SLUSH PUPPIE! who came from the ocean, who has had many fatal wounds and healed from them (note that this reference is meant to call up imagery of christ at the crucifixion and resurrection) and is ostensibly godless (catholic or maybe an atheist?) the beast is a false savior. which is what Ulysses is propping S.P. up as. He has his own association to a seperate figure The Beast of the Earth (false prophet) but the more beasts show up the more it starts to look like theyre all kinda the same thing huh.