"The
destroyer". In the
new testament of the
Bible, Apollyon is called the
angel of the
bottomless pit.
Abaddon, a poetic name for the land of the dead in the
old testament, is Apollyon’s
Greek translation from the
Hebrew language. Apollyon, in early
Christian literature, is a name for the
devil. He is identified as an angel of death, “hideous to behold, with scales like a
fish, wings like a
dragon,
bear’s feet, and a
lion’s mouth.”
from: Christian Mythology, Greek and Roman Mythology