Abaddon is described as "Destroyer" the angel of the Abyss, and as the king of a plague of locusts resembling horses with crowned human faces, women's hair, lions' teeth, wings, iron breast-plates, and a tail with a scorpion's stinger that torments for five months anyone who does not have the seal of God on their foreheads. Abaddon, however, is an angel not of Satan but of God, performing his work of destruction at God's bidding"