Colter's Hell

when you think of Hell? What images do you imagine? You may think of a satanic devil with his little “helpers” burning through the pits of hell. You may further fill in the picture with other beastly devils that roam around torturing damned sinners who will never see light of day, or those who turn cry out with pain, regret, and suffering. In Dante’s epic poem known as the Divine Comedy, he creates a unreal version of himself as he travels through the farthest reaches of hell (Inferno),…

translation of inferno means hell, it is fitting seeing as the main character travels on a path to get to heaven that must go through hell. The key theme that I found more interesting than the others that might be able to be taken from the text. I thought that god finding a balance between the sin committed and the degree of punishment you will suffer was interesting, it was weird to think that there was once a belief (or still is I’m not sure) that there are tiers of hell and based up your sin…

Perhaps one of the most infamous quotes regarding John Milton’s Paradise Lost is that given by William Blake stating that Milton was of the devil’s party without knowing it. To specify, Satan’s character in Paradise Lost does indeed present itself as a persona with whom the reader is able to sympathise almost immediately from the beginning of the poem. Especially in Books I and II, as we are introduced to an ambitious character who overcomes his own weaknesses in order to accomplish his purposes…

“Xibalba,” but the common theme throughout these and all adaptations of Hell is the eternal separation from good and, as a result, an abundance of suffering and evil. It is impossible to accurately describe Hell. It can only be described by humans in personal glimpses of evil in the world, and most of the time, famous interpretations of Hell in literature are what comes to mind when contemplating eternal separation from God. Hell is personalized pandemonium for those sinners who chose to reject…

A possible source is Revelation 8:7: “So the first Angel blew the trumpet, and there was hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast into the earth.” Moreover, meteors are compared with the signs in the heavens of the Gospel apocalyptic prophecies. These images and the repetition of blood and fire of Revelation allude to the end of the world. Tamburlaine’s apocalyptic imagery is inspired from the Turks, seen as demons, the Antichrists, who in the sixteenth century carried the ancient…

Smoke Hang Laini Taylor who is the bestselling novelist and an American author is known for her fantasy genres wrote, “Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist and a devil knelt over him and smiled” (Daughter of Smoke and Bone). Hell is empty, and all the devils are here to lead human beings to commit mistakes in their lives. The National Anti-drug Agency showed a particular advertisement of a smoking man hangs himself in the invisible gallows with a dark background full of cracks. The…

The Jinn’s characters are similar to the Christian entities of the Devil and his demons. However, the way that the West portrays the Jinn are caricatured, comic, and supernatural creatures. The Jinn are depicted as beings that grant wishes as the Disney’s version of Aladdin. In these accounts, the Jinn tricked humans and acted in a superficial matter. In a contrasting view, literature in the East represents the Jinn as frightful and sinister due to the Islamic religious beliefs. The divergent…

the dead. Like Hades, Satan can be viewed as having “power” over all of Hell, giving Satan the image of having a pitchfork. In “The Satanic Phenomenon: Medieval Representations of Satan”, Mark H. Muska writes that “Satan as a dragon or lion stirs emotions within us of a fearful creature with great power, one who preys on human beings.” This gives us the image of Satan being a hurtful, scary creature with great power over Hell. In Genesis 3:1, it is written that “Now the snake was the most…

A ritual is usually a step-by-step religious ceremony used to show dedication or celebration. Rituals have a sentimental meaning to the participants. The most common type of rituals that you may have experienced might be funerals or praying before a meal. Satanists practice unusual rituals that you probably had no idea existed. What are these foreign rituals? How are they categorized? (Bleach) There are many different definitions of the word satanism. The largest organization is The Church of…

made it necessary.” Jonathan Edwards stated this quote in his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. On July 8th, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, Edwards expressed his beliefs to his audience: people who were not saved by God will go to Hell; these “people” were also known as “Unconverted Men”. Edwards was known for the uprising theology of the Great Awakening. Henceforth upon reading Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, it can be concluded that Edwards followed his strict…