Ergotism. The root cause of a lot of religion is ergotism.
The book was probably written by John of Patmos.
The island of Patmos is more or less famous for its magic shrooms.
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Also check out every description of angels in the bible. Somebody accidentally discovered LSD for sure before writing that stuff. Or they saw actual UFOs and did their best to desribe them with whatever semantics they had.
you’re not entirely wrong at all https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot
Yup he was living on Patmos and high on volcanic ash
Hey John! How the sulphur today?
Seen a huge beast with like thirty eyes dude
You should write it dude
To be far, I can kinda see the human face similarities in a locust.
Ergot poisoning. Not even once.
No mention of a beard. No mention of flowing hair. No mention of a scorpion tail. I think whoever drew this was the one that was high as fuck.
That looks like a dark souls boss.