'The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth and opened the shaft of the Abyss, and smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power to harm the people who had not been sealed by God.
The well of the abyss is presented in the centre as a stone-built well; the smoke comes out of it, and the locusts that occupy the whole picture come out of it: Following the description in the Apocalypse, the locusts have a woman's head with long hair and a crown, nails of a lion (instead of teeth), and a scorpion's tail and sting.
The sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer). (Revelation 9, 1-11).'
