Gate of Hell - Cowards who refused to take a stand for or against God
Forever running and getting stung by wasps.
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Circle one - Limbo
Virtuous pagans, Virgil, Plato. Unfulfilled desire and hopelessness.
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Circle two - The lustful
Francesa and Paolo. Cleopatra. Eternally being swirled in wind.
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Circle three - The gluttons
Guarded by the three-headed dog, Cerebrus. Eating slime and muck.
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Circle four - The prodigal and the miserly
Hoarders and wasters pushing an enormous stone against each other.
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Circle five - The wrathful and the sullen
Thrashing and bodies torn apart in dark filthy water.
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Circle six - The heretics
Living in smoking tombs.
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Circle seven - The violent, the suicides, the blasphemers, the sodomites, the usurers
A river of boiling blood guarded by Centaurs. Souls become a forest of suffering trees, others torn apart by dogs, rain of fire, mutilation.
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Circle eight - Fraudulent, pimps, seducers, flatterers,simonists, sorcerers, corrupt politicians, sewers of division, falsifiers, alchemists, thieves
Eternally walking and tormented. Living in excrement. Stuffed into holes. Heads turned backwards. Boiling tar. Lead capes. Snakes. Flames.
- Dante chats with a pope in Hell
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Circle nine - Sinners against family, betrayers, traitors against country
Encased in ice. Home of Satan. Cannibalism. Judas being eternally chewed by Lucifer.
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