...in fact, SHE doesn't appear at all...in any of the representations.

"SALOME was a man" - GILL tells me.

Why does ST JOHN appear to be encased in ROCK a lot?

"A form of early torture" says GILL.

Yes, I can see that they are lowering him into a sort of POTHOLE...

GILL tells me that it is 'all demonic'...JOHN was demonic...his torturers were demonic...the whole lot...