Figure
The Beast
One of the two beasts described in the Book of Revelation; the first comes out of the sea, while the second comes out of the earth and directs people to worship the first beast; they are defeated by Christ and are thrown into the lake of fire
- Also called 666, 616, Beast of the Apocalypse
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Connections
How The Beast connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Identification 5
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
7 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 6 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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