“The kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the inhabitants of the earth were drunk with the wine of her fornication.” brought the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman who was sitting᾽ a red beast, full of names of shoots,᾽ seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and of gold, and of gold, and of pearls; and on her forehead she had a name written, a secret: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND THE SHIRTS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, she wondered.

(The Apocalypse of John translated by George Seferis)