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 also, yeah, Revelation also talks about two things, the field of the saints and the blessed city, and the dragon tries to attack it but fails

remembering this also ... the ancient greeks (and revelation text is written in ancient greek) called these islands the "blessed islands" and i searched around to find some reference like "campo de santos" but no... there is a book with this title too, that recently became very popular, and the reference is related to revelation and the story is about weaponised immigration, funny enough 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

and "dragons" i'm starting to strongly connect them with meteors on low trajectories blazing through the sky, like the one that passed over Russia back in 2013, if you ever saw the video, omg wow 
 Was it the Chelyabinsk one? Iirc a bunch of cars caught it on dashcam 
 yeah...

and it's not unknown phenomenon in the region, the tunguska incident was probably an exploding meteor at a low trajectory, finally got so hot it popped over the taiga 
 Idk, I do often wonder what the dragon is. I'm fairly certain that the crowns represent ego - there's the crowns on the dragon and the crowns that the saints wear, which I think is us, if we're saved. Ego just fits crowns in my mind. A hollow crown is an inflated ego - there's nothing there. To lay down your crown is to die, to have your crown returned is to be resurrected. But... I avoid that book!