Acheron in Dante’s Journey
The river where the arriving dead assemble for Charon’s crossing.
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SourceAmenta
The Hidden Land divided into domains of posthumous life.
Egyptian funerary religion
Antenora, the Second Frozen Round
The part of the ice where the encounter with Bocca leads to accusations of betrayal.
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Caina, the First Frozen Round
The first division of the frozen circle, introduced through entangled family figures.
Dante, InfernoCocytus, the Frozen Lake
The lake of immobilising cold at the bottom of Dante’s Inferno.
Dante, InfernoSourceFields of Aalu
Abundant afterlife fields where agriculture continues without its earthly hazards.
Egyptian funerary religion
SourceHell in Paradise Lost
The burning realm whose confinement continues inside the rebel who leaves it.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Judecca, the Innermost Ice
The final frozen division, where the souls are entirely enclosed and Lucifer occupies the centre.
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Limbo in the First Circle
The first circle, where worthy souls endure desire without hope of blessedness.
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Malebolge, the Ten Ditches
The eighth circle’s tenfold landscape of fraud, crossed by rocky bridges.
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Pandemonium
The capital and council hall where the fallen host converts defeat into policy.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
SourcePtolomea and Premature Descent
The frozen round where Alberigo claims a soul can arrive before its body dies.
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Sai-no-Kawara
The shadowy river-bed where children build stone towers and seek Jizo's protection in Davis's account of the afterlife.
Japanese Buddhist tradition
The Boiling Pitch of the Fifth Ditch
An opaque pool that conceals the inhabitants accused of corrupt public dealing.
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The Burdens of Hoarding and Waste
Opposing companies collide with heavy burdens in the fourth circle.
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The Burning Sepulchres
The open, heated tombs encountered inside Dis.
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The City of Dis
The fortified entrance to the deeper infernal regions, initially closed against the travellers.
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The Flames That Enclose Speakers
Separate fires conceal the inhabitants of the eighth ditch, including a divided flame.
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The Gate of Dante’s Hell
The inscribed entrance that declares the purpose and permanence of the infernal realm.
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The Giants around the Central Well
The apparent towers resolve into immense bodies around the pit leading to the frozen circle.
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The Inverted Pits of Simony
Headfirst openings in the third ditch, with burning feet and successive occupants.
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The Storm of the Second Circle
The unceasing wind that carries the souls whose desire overruled reason.
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The Stygian Lake
The dark marsh of the fifth circle, crossed before the city of Dis.
Dante, InfernoSourceThe Vestibule of the Uncommitted
The region before Acheron occupied by those who committed themselves to neither good nor evil.
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