The eagle, in accord with the bizarre imagery of apocalyptic visions, has twelve wings, eight little wings, and three heads. The complicated description of their actions throughout 11:1–35 is likely to be a coded allegory of a political situation easily recognizable to a first-century audience perhaps, but the specific details of the allegory are, for the most part, no longer clear. The little wings may refer to minor political or military figures of whom we know nothing, but the three heads are