The heads are mountains not people, Revelation 17. It is the horns on those heads that are people, ten kings.
The 7 heads/mountains are not the rulers. The horns are the rulers and the heads are WHERE they rule. This is just like the type/shadow of Pagan Rome where Caesar (type of the Antichrist) ruled over ten states with their rulers (types of the ten horns) and these ten states (kingdoms) were LOCATED on 7 hills (the 7 heads/mountains).
Obviously the 7 hills weren't an additional 7 leaders anymore than they are in Rev 13, 17.
No they aren't. See, you literalised it based on your assumptions of here. The writings in the book of Revelation were sealed. They written in esoteric language, that doesn't mean just symbols, but Spiritual language. They are not the hills, or ceaser, or any such thing. The 7 heads of the beast are lucifer and 5 cherubim and one seraph. They are celestial beings. They are not men with mortal body.
we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world.
The ten horns speaks to their anatomy, the antomy of the Cherubim which each have two horns. That "old Serpent" from the Garden of Eden is the Seraph. Just like when Arch Angel Gabriel was trying to get to Daniel, but the prince of persia would not let him get there, that prince of persia is a cherub. That Prince of Persia became the Prince of Grecia, and Prince of Rome.
The 7 heads of the beast are:
Lucifer
beelzebub
Bhudah
Rah
Shiva
Khalia
Bomi
These 6 were each given a portion of rulership by Lucifer.
In matt 4: Lucifer not knowing who he was speaking to said:
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Even Matt 4 needed to be interpreted from the Spirit Point. The wilderness place that they wrote that the Spirit of GOD led Jesus His Pre-Eminence to (which even that is a blasphemy against the character of the Most Holy GOD), is not in this earth. It is the place that lucifer and cohorts pitched their tent when they left their habitable heaven, their tower, their place of residence. That place is not in heaven or earth, it is towards the lake of fire, it is western, heaven is eastern. That is why you read that the eastern winds parted the red sea, and brought manna and quails and so on.
The Writings of the Prophets are written in Prophetic Language, even that 2300 was not pointing to days in this earth, but it was pointing to being called at the 11th hour: 23:00 hours. And this was also revealed in the rib missing from the body of Adam. That 12 ribs which are paired is 24. This is very deep so i won't go too far into this for now.
The book of Revelation was sealed, so that no Preacher would be able to dive into that. Why? Because its only the 7th Angel of the church that will interpret that perfectly. That is why John the Beloved as the Prophet was told to eat the book to show that the mysteries of the apokalupsis will only be revealed, unvieiled by that Prophet. And he will also judge and bring down babylon.
In Revelation it speaks of the Mother harlot, riding the back of the beast. And it was revealed: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
Why Mystery? There are verses that say: We are not ignorant of the devices of Satan. Then why was babylon the great called a mystery? The beasts kingdoms are in different levels of the air. Each of the heads were given a portion of the earth to rule over, different heights of rulership also. Lucifer is the king of babylon, and that role was played by Nebuchadnezzar. Babylon is not just a kingdom, it is a system of the strategies and devices of satan, changing with time but still the same system.
Babylon didn't start at the kingdom you know called Babylon. Nimrod Cush also set up 4 kingdoms then tried to build a tower that reached GOD. Nimrod was a wizard who married his birth mother. Why? Because they had teachings of someone that would be born that would crush them. Just like there is Babylon, Medes Persia, Grecia and Rome. Rome is the one of the 4 Jesus His Pre-Eminence met. And they crucified HIM!
Babylon has been since the fall of Man. That Babylon is also those that scanned out Eden, found that there were only 2 people in that heavens world, and that they were superior to them and their heavens world superior to theirs. So they devised a plan, a blueprint to bring down man. Just as Caucasians in the earth today explored, found lands, found the people in that land, killed those people and claimed the land for themselves.