It's like Voltron... The first beast was, is not, and yet is. When God and Goddess are separate there is no first beast. But a separate God and Goddess make up the second beast while a hooked up together in mating God and Goddess make up the first beast. Now calculate the number of the first beast... It means how many times is the hook up between God and Goddess... How many times is the first beast formed? 666 symbolizes for constant heterosexual sex between God and Goddess. So, the first beast is a constantly formed one. Helpful reminder: You and your wife become one each time you mate. But it is constant mating between God and Goddess, to why you see 6 repeated three times in a row in Rev 13:18. Since you can't calculate the number of the beast, you must factor in the term "constant". Takes wisdom to do that though. Does this help you understand 666 now?
So 6969 does not a beast make. All kidding aside.There was a partial page to an ancient biblical manuscript found in Egypt. I have it filed away somewhere so I cannot recall the date, but it was one of the oldest we have that has any indication of the number of the breast. As I recall it was found in a dig of a kitchen midden. It said the number of the beast was 616. Here is the problem I have with this----why is sex so evil? Why should sex between a god and goddess create something evil. Clearly this is the product of a misogynistic culture that revered the male god. If we go back to the goddess cults, sex was sacred and beautiful. And if you stick to many indigenous cultures, you find that not only is sex an important part of life, but there is even a lack of, or a subdued, gender dominance.