Levels of Inferno by Kyleigh Lasseter

1st Level of Hell: Limbo

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Where those who never knew Christ exist. Dante encounters Ovid, Homer, Socrates, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, and more here.

The first circle is home to the unbaptized and virtuous pagans. It’s not Heaven, but as far as Hell goes, it isn’t too bad: It’s the retirement community of the afterlife.

Bosch - Christ in Limbo

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Salvador Dali - In Dark Limbo

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2nd Level of Hell - Lust

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In the second circle of Hell are those overcome by lust. These "carnal malefactors" are condemned for allowing their appetites to sway their reason. These souls are buffeted back and forth by the terrible winds of a violent storm, without rest.

Salvador Dali - Lust

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Dore - Lust and Torture

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3rd Level of Hell - Gluttony

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Where those who overindulge exist. Dante encounters ordinary people here, not characters from epic poems or gods from mythology. The author Boccaccio took one of these characters, Ciacco, and incorporated him into his 14th-century collection of tales called "The Decameron."

Salvador Dali - Greed

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Bosch - Gluttony - The seven deadly sins and the last Four things

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Bosch - Allegory of Gluttony and Lust

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4th Level of Hell - Greed

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Dante encounters more ordinary people but also the guardian of the circle, Pluto, the mythological king of the Underworld. This circle is reserved for people who hoarded or squandered their money, but Dante and Virgil do not directly interact with any of its inhabitants. This is the first time they pass through a circle without speaking to anyone, a commentary on Dante’s opinion of greed as a higher sin.

Boticelli - The Calumny of Apelles

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Here reference is made to King Midas, a figure of ancient mythology whose stupidity and greed are the subject of numerous anecdotes.

5th Level of Hell - Anger

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Dante tells us that the wrathful and angry souls of this circle spend eternity waging battle on the River of Styx. If playing pirates forever sounds like your idea of a good time, then the fifth circle can't be too bad.

Salvador Dali - Leaving the Level of Anger

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Dore - Anger

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6th Level of Hell - Heresy

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Rejection of religious and/or political “norms.” Dante encounters Farinata degli Uberti, a military leader and aristocrat who tried to win the Italian throne and was convicted posthumously of heresy in 1283. Dante also meets Epicurus, Pope Anastasius II, and Emperor Frederick II.

Salvador Dali - The Heretics

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Boticelli - Punishment of Heretics

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7th Level of Hell - Violence

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This is the first circle to be further segmented into sub-circles or rings. There are three of them—the Outer, Middle, and Inner rings—housing different types of violent criminals. The first are those who were violent against people and property, such as Attila the Hun. Centaurs guard this Outer Ring and shoot its inhabitants with arrows. The Middle Ring consists of those who commit violence against themselves (suicide). These sinners are perpetually eaten by Harpies. The Inner Ring is made up of the blasphemers, or those who are violent against God and nature. One of these sinners is Brunetto Latini, a sodomite, who was Dante’s own mentor. (Dante speaks kindly to him.) The usurers are also here, as are those who blasphemed not just against God but also the gods, such as Capaneus, who blasphemed against Zeus.

Salvador Dali - By Violence

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8th Level of Hell - Fraud

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This circle is distinguished from its predecessors by being made up of those who consciously and willingly commit fraud. Within the eighth circle is another called the Malebolge (“Evil Pockets”), which houses 10 separate bolgias (“ditches”). In these exist types of those who commit fraud: panderers/seducers; flatterers; simoniacs (those who sell ecclesiastical preferment); sorcerers/astrologers/false prophets; barrators (corrupt politicians); hypocrites; thieves; false counselors/advisers; schismatics (those who separate religions to form new ones); and alchemists/counterfeiters, perjurers, impersonators, etc. Each bolgia is guarded by different demons, and the inhabitants suffer different punishments, such as the simoniacs, who stand head-first in stone bowls and endure flames upon their feet.

Salvador Dali - Fraud

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Fraud

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9th Level of Hell - Treachery

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Treachery: The deepest circle of Hell, where Satan resides. As with the last two circles, this one is further divided, into four rounds. The first is Caina, named after the biblical Cain, who murdered his brother. This round is for traitors to family. The second, Antenora—from Antenor of Troy, who betrayed the Greeks—is reserved for political/national traitors. The third is Ptolomaea for Ptolemy, son of Abubus, who is known for inviting Simon Maccabaeus and his sons to dinner and then murdering them. This round is for hosts who betray their guests; they are punished more harshly because of the belief that having guests means entering into a voluntary relationship, and betraying a relationship willingly entered is more despicable than betraying a relationship born into. The fourth round is Judecca, after Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Christ. This round is reserved for traitors to their lords/benefactors/masters. As in the previous circle, the subdivisions each have their own demons and punishments.

The Center

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Satan

Canto 1: Dante's Inferno

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He is 35, wants to go to the true way of heaven but when ascending the mountain he encounters the three beasts of worldliness and must ascend through hell, purgatory, and paradisio with the help of Virgil.

Dark Woods of Error

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Wood= Knowledge - So Hell represents dark/dangerous knowledge

Tree of Knowledge has the fruit

As an adult, the older you get the sin becomes more eyeopening and easy to get lost in it (sex addiction)

Symbolism of Three Beasts of Worldliness

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symbolize carnal sins which are divided into three categories of severity: the sins of malice and fraud, the sins of violence and ambition, and the sins of incontinence, respectively.

Beasts live in the forest - represent sin

Ambitious people can be addicted to the grind and step on people to get to where they wanna go.

Incontinence is uncontrollable urges.

Symbolism of the First Light of Sun light

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First day of creation, birth, growth, new beginnings of all kinds, resurrection, even the creation and nearly everything that has a cherished or hoped-for origin.

Seventy symbolism

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Seventy has a sacred meaning in Scripture that is made up of the factors of two perfect numbers, seven (representing perfection - covenants and completeness)

3+4. 3 is the holy trinity. 4 has to do with man or the world (4 seasons, 4 cardinal directions, 4 elements. World of man and God = perfection

9= shortcoming of God 11= "if God is ten i'm 11", bad

6= man because symbol represents hook, where man need to connect to something which is god. Which is why 666 is bad because it represents the holy trinity without god.

and ten (representing completeness and God's law). As such, it symbolizes perfect spiritual order carried out with all power. It can also represent a period of judgment.

The True Way

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A spiritual awakening

Equinoctial rebirth

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Equinox: time of spiritual warfare.

Equal dark and sun time - represents

The equinox are in fall and spring. Sun crosses celestial equator.

Summer solstice is the longest day