In the First Ring of Seventh Circle, souls of people who committed violent crimes against other humans are being tortured. It includes criminals like the murderers, tyrants, war-makers, looters and many more. Their souls are dipped in sweltering blood and flames of the river Phlegethon. The souls are dunked in the variable depths which represent their lust for blood. Higher the sins of a person were, deeper his soul is submerged to struggle in the scorching blood.
There are creatures such as Centaurs, half-human and half-horse present here. They would shoot arrows at the sinners who would try to emerge out of the boiling blood more than they are allowed. They all are suffering and being tortured because of their never-ending desire to conquer the world.
Their desire corrupted their minds and led them to kill thousands of people. In the Second Ring of Seventh Circle, the souls of people who committed suicide or attempted to do so are tortured for eternity.
The souls are malformed into Thorny Gnarled tree. Harpies, half-human half-bird creatures, feeds on them. The punishment symbolized self-hatred which dried them up and turned them into dead trees. They have no energy but are subject to cuts and bleeding just like they did in their lifetime. In the last ring, the Third Ring of Seventh Circle of Hell, people who committed crimes like blasphemy, sodomy and bestiality and the unfair money lenders are being tortured.
The whole landscape depicts the miserable end of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is all covered by the scorching-hot burning sand and flakes of flames fall from the sky. In the poem, Dante mentions seeing the Blasphemers lying on the burning sand and the sodomites running in circles on the sand.
The unfair money lenders are weeping and huddled on the sand. This is the place where people who committed frauds and malicious crimes are tortured. This circle is divided into Ten Ditches or Bolgia. In the First Bolgia, panderers or sex workers and seducers are tortured. They are whipped by the demons for they exploited others by seducing them to fulfill their interests.
In the Second Bolgia, flatterers are being tortured who exaggeratedly complimented others on gaining their attention and on corrupting them. In the Fourth Bolgia, sorcerers such as diviners, fortune tellers, astrologers, and other false prophets are tormented. The fortune-tellers had their heads twisted backward as they wanted to see the future by means of black magic. They desire to see what lied ahead caused them damnation.
The sinners are now bounded to walk backward and their own tears blinded them for eternity. In the Fifth Bolgia, politicians who sold their public offices for money are punished. They are dunked in boing pitch for indulging into corruption and betraying their country. In the poem, Dante mentions clawed demon called Malebranche who would tear them apart if they tried to come above the surface of the pitch.
In the Sixth Bolgia, all the hypocrites are punished for the false status they built in the society for themselves. They are made to climb a mountain with heavily leaden robes which would weigh them down. In the Seventh Bolgia, all the thieves are punished. They are tormented in a huge pit filled with snakes, lizards and other reptiles which would bite them and curl around their hands, legs, back, and neck.
In the Eighth Bolgia, the counselors of deception and fraud are punished. The fraudulent advisors and evil counselors are covered by individual flames. Sixth Circle: Heresy Dante wrote that heretics spent eternity entombed in flaming crypts in the sixth circle, but heresy is kind of an obscure sin in modern times. It is composed of three rings.
The outer ring is filled with blood and fire and reserved for murderers and thugs. The middle ring is where, according to Dante, suicide victims go. How about we ret-con this one Sorry, residents of the sixth circle… and reserve it for the likes of the Westboro Baptist Church? Eighth Circle: Fraud The eighth circle is subdivided into ten trenches.
Dante described ditches, but I prefer to think of the eight circle as being a giant cubicle farm full of phone and internet fraudsters.
So … Washington, DC in February? Start earning points for buying books! Uplift Native American Stories. In the Middle Ring, the poet sees suicides who have been turned into trees and bushes which are fed upon by harpies. But he also sees here profligates, chased and torn to pieces by dogs.
In the Inner Ring are blasphemers and sodomites, residing in a desert of burning sand and burning rain falling from the sky. The Eight Circle of Hell is resided by the fraudulent. Dante and Virgil reach it on the back of Geryon, a flying monster with different natures, just like the fraudulent. This circle of Hell is divided into 10 Bolgias or stony ditches with bridges between them.
In Bolgia 1, Dante sees panderers and seducer. In Bolgia 2 he finds flatterers. After crossing the bridge to Bolgia 3, he and Virgil see those who are guilty of simony.
After crossing another bridge between the ditches to Bolgia 4, they find sorcerers and false prophets. In Bolgia 5 are housed corrupt politicians, in Bolgia 6 are hypocrites and in the remaining 4 ditches, Dante finds hypocrites Bolgia 7 , thieves Bolgia 7 , evil counselors and advisers Bolgia 8 , divisive individuals Bolgia 9 and various falsifiers such as alchemists, perjurers, and counterfeits Bolgia The last Ninth Circle of Hell is divided into 4 Rounds according to the seriousness of the sin.
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