English: Coloured woodcut from Luther's bible translation for Revelation 17: I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations. With her three-tiered tiara the woman on the beast is identified as the pope and his Roman catholic church of Rome, the antichrist keeping the church in "Babylonian captivity" as Luther had written in 1520.