"cat o' nine tails".
"cat o' nine tails". = GREAT YEAR 9, NOAH = the 9 tongues on each snake (lamb/goat horn shaped like a snake, clever symbolism, incorporating Capricorn + Sata =snake =Saturn, its ruler) on the Vatican flag.
Santa (anagran for Satan) has 9 reindeer.
In works like The Inferno, Satan is trapped in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Tradition often specifies that Jesus received 39 lashes. 39 degrees (Cleopatra lived 39 years = 39 degrees. Cancer appears listed as 42, so some degrees are missing).