Figure WCA-isr-077. Virgin Mary standing on the globe and crescent and crushing a serpent's head under her right foot, the subject which can be linked to the events described in the Bible (New Testament), NRSV as follows: ✠ "A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth. Then another portent appeared in heaven: a great red dragon [δράκον, drakon = "fabulous serpent/dragon" in Greek], with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon [δράκον, drakon] stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne; and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days. And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon [δράκον, drakon]. The dragon [δράκον, drakon] and his angels fought back, but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The great dragon [δράκον, drakon] was thrown down, that ancient serpent [ὄφις, ophis = "snake/serpent" in Greek], who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world - he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him." (Revelation 12: 1-9).
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