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Dante's Levels of Hell
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Here are Dante's levels of Hell, from The Inferno
| | Portal: entranceway |
| | Acheron: river separating world from underworld |
| | Circle 1/Limbo: home of unbaptized |
| | Circle 2: home of "carnal sinners" |
| | Circle 3: home of the gluttonous |
| | Circle 4: home of the prodigal and avaricious |
| | Circle 5/Styx: home of the wrathful |
| | Dis: walled city containing the remainder of Hell |
| | Circle 6: heretics |
| | Circle 7: Phlegethon (those violent to neighbors), those who were violent to themselves, and those who were violent to nature and God |
| | Abyss |
| | Circle 8/Malebolge: has 10 deeper bastions, including Boldia, flatterers, buyers/sellers of pardons, fortunetellers, grafters, hypocrites, robbers, evil counslors, scandalmongers, liars |
| | Circle 9/Cocytus: a frozen lake, including a pit of giants and all traitors |
| | Center of the Earth: home of Lucifer |
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