I wanted to see if I could find the areas of distortion and abridging from other sources in the Book of revelation.

line 120: When in temporary exile on Patmos, John wrote the Book of Revelation, which you now have in greatly abridged and distorted form. This Book of Revelation contains the surviving fragments of a great revelation, large portions of which were lost, other portions of which were removed, subsequent to John's writing. It is preserved in only fragmentary and adulterated form.

I wonder if there following verses in revelation is really a product or influence of an earlier cult religion.  Here is a search on Heads in the Bible.

heads   (King James Version)

Revelation 4:4   (Read all of Revelation 4)
And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

Revelation 9:7   (Read all of Revelation 9)
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

Revelation 9:17   (Read all of Revelation 9)
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

Revelation 9:19   (Read all of Revelation 9)
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

Revelation 12:3   (Read all of Revelation 12)
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

Revelation 13:1   (Read all of Revelation 13)
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Revelation 13:3   (Read all of Revelation 13)
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

Revelation 17:3   (Read all of Revelation 17)
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 17:7   (Read all of Revelation 17)
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 17:9   (Read all of Revelation 17)
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

Revelation 18:19   (Read all of Revelation 18)
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

Multiple Heads like the Multiple heads you see on the Mitharaic statutes and note the commonality of the Lions Heads and the Lion Heads mentioned in Revelation.  The Seven heads could a reflection of the Sevenfold snake on the statutes or perhaps the Sevenfold.

Note Sevenfold is in the Bible to here is a word search on Sevenfold

sevenfold   (King James Version)

Genesis 4:15   (Read all of Genesis 4)
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Genesis 4:24   (Read all of Genesis 4)
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

Psalm 79:12   (Read all of Psalm 79)
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Proverbs 6:31   (Read all of Proverbs 6)
But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

Isaiah 30:26   (Read all of Isaiah 30)
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Note that the majority of Psalms we have today were discovered in Babylon during the captivity of the Israelites on Mesopotamia and upon returning to Jerusalem many of the remaining scriptures in Israel at the time where replaced with Mesopotamian tainted thoughts.  Its was Mesopotamian money that built the Temple and therefore the priests would use there own edited version of scripture.  Therefore you would have the influence of the Sevenfold whose origins where in Mesopotamia.

Here is what the Urantia Has to say about the Psalms

PAPER 95 - THE MELCHIZEDEK TEACHINGS IN THE LEVANT, Oct 19 2000

• line 44: It was the Salem missionaries of the period following the rejection of their teaching who wrote many of the Old Testament Psalms, inscribing them on stone, where later-day Hebrew priests found them during the captivity and subsequently incorporated them among the collection of hymns ascribed to Jewish authorship. These beautiful psalms from Babylon were not written in the temples of Bel-Marduk; they were the work of the descendants of the earlier Salem missionaries, and they are a striking contrast to the magical conglomerations of the Babylonian priests. The Book of Job is a fairly good reflection of the teachings of the Salem school at Kish and throughout Mesopotamia.
   
• line 66: The concept of judgment in the hereafter for the sins of one's life in the flesh on earth was carried over into Hebrew theology from Egypt. The word judgment appears only once in the entire Book of Hebrew Psalms, and that particular psalm was written by an Egyptian.
   
• line 90: are taken almost verbatim from Amenemope's Book of Wisdom. The first psalm of the Hebrew Book of Psalms was written by Amenemope and is the heart of the teachings of Ikhnaton.
   
• line 104: Ikhnaton was wise enough to maintain the outward worship of Aton, the sun-god, while he led his associates in the disguised worship of the One God, creator of Aton and supreme Father of all. This young teacher-king was a prolific writer, being author of the exposition entitled "The One God," a book of thirty-one chapters, which the priests, when returned to power, utterly destroyed. Ikhnaton also wrote one hundred and thirty-seven hymns, twelve of which are now preserved in the Old Testament
  
   Book of Psalms, credited to Hebrew authorship.
• line 131: But it is a far cry from the exalted teachings and noble psalms of Zoroaster to the modern perversions of his gospel by the Parsees with their great fear of the dead, coupled with the entertainment of beliefs in sophistries which Zoroaster never stooped to countenance.

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PAPER 96 - YAHWEH--GOD OF THE HEBREWS, Oct 19 2000
 

• line 128: 7. PSALMS AND THE BOOK OF JOB
   
• line 130: Under the leadership of their sheiks and priests the Hebrews became loosely established in Palestine. But they soon drifted back into the benighted beliefs of the desert and became contaminated with the less advanced Canaanite religious practices. They became idolatrous and licentious, and their idea of Deity fell far below the Egyptian and Mesopotamian concepts of God that were maintained by certain surviving Salem groups, and which are recorded in some of the Psalms and in the so-called Book of Job.
   
• line 131: The Psalms are the work of a score or more of authors; many were written by Egyptian and Mesopotamian teachers. During these times when the Levant worshiped nature gods, there were still a goodly number who believed in the supremacy of El Elyon, the Most High.
   
• line 132: No collection of religious writings gives expression to such a wealth of devotion and inspirational ideas of God as the Book of Psalms. And it would be very helpful if, in the perusal of this wonderful collection of worshipful literature, consideration could be given to the source and chronology of each separate hymn of praise and adoration, bearing in mind that no other single collection covers such a great range of time. This Book of Psalms is the record of the varying concepts of God entertained by the believers of the Salem religion throughout the Levant and embraces the entire period from Amenemope to Isaiah. In the Psalms God is depicted in all phases of conception, from the crude idea of a tribal deity to the vastly expanded ideal of the later Hebrews, wherein Yahweh is pictured as a loving ruler and merciful Father.
   
• line 133: And when thus regarded, this group of Psalms constitutes the most valuable and helpful assortment of devotional sentiments ever assembled by man up to the times of the twentieth century. The worshipful spirit of this collection of hymns transcends that of all other sacred books of the world.

Here are images of various representation of Mithra under different names within the Mitharaic deities.  And note in one statute Time-god at Castel Gandolfo you have this representation of multiple Heads laced over the body.  This is confirmed by the following fragment and its connection to Mithra.

Here is some information that speak of the heads.

http://www.farvardyn.com/mithras5.php

Fig. 27. Cautopates with torch ponting downward	Fig. 28. Zervan, encircled by a snake	Fig. 29. Statue of the Time-god at Castel Gandolfo

Kronos-Saturn

This god always has a snake wound round his body and sometimes the signs of the zodiac are seen in the spaces between its coils. He often has four wings, one pair pointing upward and the other downward (Fig. 28). On the paintings in the Barberini Mithraeum Saturn is shown, as is often the case, standing on a globe, and it is specially interesting to note that the Time-god is here surrounded by the signs of the zodiac which decorate the vault of the cave where the bull-slaying is set.

The sevenfold windings of the snake are definitely connected with the planets and the coils themselves indicate the course of the sun through the zodiac. The sun has thus become part of the god; he is the sun determining time in its course. He dominates the zodiac and as such is Chronos, Time. But he is also the ruler over the four winds, represented by his four wings. He is known to order the seasons too, and again he does this both in his role as Sol and in his role as Time. We are reminded of the figure of Caelus, the god of heaven, who is depicted on an altar at Carnuntum surrounded by the Wind-gods and the seasons. Arnobius, writing about A.D. 295, makes an apparent allusion to the lion's devouring mouth: 'We observe amidst your gods one with the terrifying wild head of a lion, besmeared with pure minium (red-lead)'. A statue from Castel Gandolfo (Fig. 29) even has lions' heads on its stomach and knees. The lion is undoubtedly an allusion to the all-devouring fire, while the three lions perhaps indicate the threefold character of the sun figure. Arnobius calls the god fruitful, probably thinking of the identification of Chronos-Kronos with the Roman Saturn.

The lion's head on the stomach of the statue from Castel Gandolfo recalls a second statue from Merida where the god again has a lion's head on his chest. He is shown, however, not as an awesome figure but as a youth and we may unhesitatingly detect an identification with Mithras himself who, in another representation originally at Merida, is shown standing with a lion crouching at his feet. The fire-symbolism of the Lion grade in the cult, the Lion with the fire-shovel as attribute, is definitely related to this figure. It is interesting that a statue from Strasbourg shows the Time-god holding a fire-shovel in his hand, a reminder that at the end of time all will be consumed in an overwhelming conflagration. Thus the god with the lion's head is the symbol of devouring time.

I believe Revelation has been markedly been influenced from the previous religion cult of Mithra and the commonality can be seen in the  multiple heads.  I believe its possible that the Sevenfold found in the Bible is also another influence by the thoughts of Mithraism or Babylonian Sevenfold thoughts contained in there religions at the time of Israeli captivity?

Fig. 29. Statue of the Time-god at Castel Gandolfo

Concerning the image below: I wonder whether Zervan is a distant reflection of Van from North East Iran and who holds the key. Its interesting to note that the Van highland headquarters is only 40 miles in a straight line from ShirVan.  The statute would be consistent with Van where Van was designated as an immortal Son of God who protected the tree of life and who was the King of the Earth at that time and built the 1st Garden of Eden submerged of the coast of Cyprus.  He holds the Key of the great Mystery or Key to the Earth, the key that unlocks the door.  Also note the Sevenfold twine of the snake.  Sevenfold is also found in the bible.  Is it the same connection to an earlier thought adopted by the Hebrews in the edit of there scripture whilst in captivity, noting that Magi religion would be the dominant religion in Mesopotamia?

Fig. 28. Zervan, encircled by a snake