1. “Inferno” from Dante’s Divine Comedy (epic poem)
Dante’s Inferno
“Inferno” from Dante’s
Divine Comedy (epic poem)

2. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
“Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth without any limits.”
- Isaiah 5:14

3. The Seven Deadly Sins (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Lust
Gluttony
Avarice
Sloth
Anger
Envy
Pride

4. Three Types of Sin (Dante Alighieri)
Incontinence (Level 1)
Lack of self control
Violence (Level 2)
Conscious violation of God’s will
Fraudulent and Traitorous (Level 3)
Using reason and intellect as a weapon

6. VESTIBULE: Neutrals and Opportunists, indecisive, no real beliefs, those who don’t choose sides
CIRCLE #1—LIMBO: Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized Babies
CIRCLE #2: Carnal and Lustful
CIRCLE #3: Gluttons
CIRCLE #4: Hoarders and Wasters CIRCLE #5: Wrathful and Sullen or Slothful

7. The Vestibule
Opportunists: people on earth who had no cause in life..only interested in themselves.
Forced to chase a banner (a cause) and chased by stinging insects

8. Who will guide you across the river towards the gates of hell
The River Acheron…
CHARON
Who will guide you across the river towards the gates of hell

9. The First Circle Limbo Virtuous pagans & unbaptized infants
Someone pleasant; castle & fields
Homer, Ovid, Socrates and Plato
“Only so far afflicted that without hope” they “live in desire” (4.42)

10. The Second Circle: The Carnal
The Lustful
Minos sits in judgment
Blown about forever by stormy winds just as, in life, they were blown about by the winds of passion; never able to touch anything again

12. The Third Circle
The Gluttons

13. The Third Circle Guarded (& eaten) by Cerberus Wallow in mud and muck
Besieged by hail & filthy water

14. The Suffering of the Gluttonous
They lie in putrid slush (symbolic of the garbage they produced)
It is continuously raining and hailing
They provide quite a hefty snack for Cerberus…

15. The avaricious and the prodigal
The Fourth Circle
The avaricious and the prodigal
Avaricious (greedy)
Prodigal (wasteful)
Useless Labor

16. Circle IV – The Hoarders and Wasters
The Greedy vs. the Wasteful
They are divided into two groups, each pushing boulders against each other (symbolic of their mundane existence on earth, with sin punishing its opposite sin).

17. The Fifth Circle The Wrathful, Sullen, or Slothful
Attacking one another

18. Circle V - The River Styx
-The Wrathful are forever attacking one another while stuck in the marsh of the Styx…
- Crossing the river on your own is too dangerous…who will be your guide?

19. Crossing the River Styx
Phlegyas, your guide
The Slothful are eternally trapped beneath the swampy water of the River
They reach out and try to pull you into the swamp…

20. You have reached the City of Dis!
…THE SINS OF MALICE
The Shores of Dis…
Now, your true nightmare beings…for within the Walls of Dis are the worst sins of Hell...
There is no turning back now…

21. City of Dis
Boundary between upper and lower Hell.

22. CIRCLE #6: Heretics
CIRCLE #7.1: Violence Against Neighbors CIRCLE #7.2: Violence Against Oneself (Forest of the Suicides)
CIRCLE #7.3.1: Violence Against God CIRCLE #7.3.2: Violence Against Nature CIRCLE #7.3.3: Violence Against Art
MALABOLGIA

23. Descent into lower Hell: Circle 6: Heresy atheists & Non-believers in the afterlife

24. Circle VI The Heretics
The heretics denied immortality, and therefore denied God.
They are entombed in flaming graves for eternity (since they believed the soul dies with the body, they will suffer that fate in Hell).

25. Circle VI / VII
Phlegathan River

26. Circle 7: Violence against God, his creations, and self

27. Circle VII The Violent and the Bestial

28. Circle VII - Outer Ring The Violent Against Neighbors
Murderers and War-makers are immersed in boiling blood (symbolic of the blood of those they killed).
Centaurs (pictured here) guard the banks and shoot arrows at anyone who tries to escape

29. Violence Against Self

30. Circle VII – Middle Ring The Violent Against Self
The Wood of the Suicides
Their souls are encased in thorny trees.
The harpies feed upon their leaves.

31. Forest of the suicides

32. Sodomites, BLASPHEMERS, USERERS
The
Sodomites, BLASPHEMERS, USERERS
violence against nature , God, and Art

33. Circle VII – Middle Ring The Violent Against God
The blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers all committed a profane act against God
They are lain over burning sand or forced to ceaselessly run around in circles
The sky rains fire symbolic of God’s wrath

34. Mmmm…
(smack) (slurp)
Deee-licious!

35. Abyss of Geryon
With an honest face, a colorful and intricately patterned reptilian hide, hairy paws, and a scorpion's tail, Geryon is an image of fraud

36. Abyss of Geryon Geryon: mythical monster Grandson to Medusa
Monster with 1 body & 3 heads (Hesoid) or 3 bodies (Aeschylus).
Stealing his red cattle was one of the tests of Hercules

38. The Malbolge
“Bad Pockets”
Entry to lowest levels of Hell – for those who use their God-given intellect to distort the truth:
Fraud
Treachery

39. Circle VIII - Malebolge
-Malebolge contains the “Fraudulent” sinners
They are guilty of committing deliberate evil
Each type of sinner is placed in their own ditch
Click on the diagram of Malebolge to explore…
Seducers
Flatterers
Simoniacs
Sorcerers
Grafters
Evil Counselors
Sowers of Discord
Falsifiers
Hypocrites
Thieves

40. Circle 8: Fraud
CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers
CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers
CIRCLE #8.3: Simonists (Users of the Church)
CIRCLE #8.4: Fortunetellers and Soothsayers
CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters
CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites
CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves
CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers
CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism
CIRCLE #8.10: Falsifiers

41. pan·der·er n. 1. A sexual procurer.
CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers
pan·der·er n.
1. A sexual procurer.
2. One who caters to or exploits the lower tastes and desires of others.
Run forever in opposite directions and are whipped by demons

42. CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers
Lie up to their necks in human feces

43. Paying for sacraments or for holy offices
CIRCLE #8.3:
The Simonists
Paying for sacraments or for holy offices
Those who mocked the church are placed head-first in flaming holes

44. CIRCLE #8.4:
Fortunetellers and Soothsayers
Their heads are put on their bodies backward

45. Trapped in a lake of burning pitch
CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters
“the acquisition of gain (as money) in dishonest or questionable ways; also: illegal or unfair gain”
Trapped in a lake of burning pitch

46. Made to wear brightly painted lead cloaks
CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites
Made to wear brightly painted lead cloaks

47. CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves
Chased by venomous snakes and who, after being bitten by the venomous snakes, turn into snakes themselves and chase the other thieves in turn

48. Eternally trapped in flames
CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers
Eternally trapped in flames

49. Their bodies are ripped apart, healed, and they destroyed again
CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism
Their bodies are ripped apart, healed, and they destroyed again

50. CIRCLE #8.10: Falsifiers
Ulysses
Alchemists, counterfeiters, liars and perjureres are cursed with disease

52. The Path to the Ninth Circle...
You must be lowered into the pit by the Giants Antaeus and Nimrod…

53. 9th Circle: Cocytus
The frozen lake

54. CIRCLE #9.1 - CAINA: Treachery to Kindred
CIRCLE #9.2 - ANTENORA: Treachery to Country or Political Party
CIRCLE #9.3 - TOLOMEA: Treachery to Guests
CIRCLE #9.4 - JUDECCA: Treachery to Lords or Superiors
LOWEST LEVEL OF HELL: The worst of those who betrayed their benefactors
~Satan, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius (Macbeth?)

55. Circle IX – Compound Fraud

56. Circle IX - Caina
You travel across the frozen lake of the 9th circle of Hell…
They are frozen up to their necks in ice…
They cry eternally for those they betrayed…
Caina features those who betrayed their family…

57. Circle IX - Antenora Antenora holds those who betrayed their country…
Your fear rises as you travel closer to the lair of the Devil…

58. Click here to watch a video of Dante face Satan himself…
Circle IX - Ptolomea
Ptolomea holds those who betryaed their guests…
Their tears freeze instantly and pierce their eyes…
Click here to watch a video of Dante face Satan himself…

59. Traitors to their Lords…
Circle IX - Judecca
The Lair of Lucifer
Traitors to their Lords…
ESCAPE!!!
Lucifer’s three faces eternally consume the bodies of Brutus and Cassius for betraying Caesar, and Judas Iscariot for betraying Christ…

60. traitors
Cassius
Brutus
Judas

61. Where do you fit in?
Take the test and find out… if you DARE

62. Escape from Hell
You climb Lucifer’s ragged fur towards an exit…you have almost escaped!