Dante's Inferno

What is the first layer called?

Upper Hell

What is the waiting area?

vestibule

Who are the sinners in the vestibule?

neutrals - indecisive angels who would not fight for god or luifer

What is the punishment for those in the vestibule?

stung by insects, endlessly chase banners

What is circle 1?

Limbo

Who are the sinners in circle one?

virtous pagans, unbaptized infants

What is the punishment in limbo?

boredom — not knowing God

Who is in circle 2?

The lustful

What is the punishment for circle 2?

blown forever by storm winds

Who is in circle three?

the gluttons

What is the punishment for circle three?

discomfort, lying in filth and muck like pigs senses assaulted

Who is in circle four?

The greedy and Spendthirfts

What is the punishment for circle four?

Pushing rocks, useless labor that frustrates others near them for no good end

Who is in circle five?

the angry and the sullen

What is the punishment for circle five?

the angry thrash about in frustration and fight each other; the sullen sulk under water sighing, blowing bubbles, and refusing all action

What is Lower Hell?

City of Dis

What is circle six?

heretics

What is the punishment for circle six?

trapped in burning tombs

What is circle seven?

the violentw

What is the first ring of circle seven?

violent against aquantiances and strangers

What is the punishment for the first ring of circle seven?

killers submerged in blood — the more people they have killed, the deeper the blood

What is the second circle of ring seven?

violence against self

What is the punishment of the second ring of circle seven?

the souls trapped in inanimate objects like trees, and their old discarded bodies left impaled nearby

What is circle seven ring three?

violence against nature (blasphermers, sodomites, and usurers)

What is the punishment for circle seven ring three?

left naked on burning sand with fire raining down from unnatural clouds.

What is circle eight?

fraud against those who share no special trust

What is circle eight ditch one?

pimps and seductressed

What is the punishment for circle eight ditch one?

whipped by devils

What is circle eight ditch two?

flatterersW

What is the punishment for circle eight ditch two?

covered in excrement

What is circle eight ditch three?

simonists (Church officals who engage or buy church offices)

What is the punishment fir circle eight ditch three?

flipped upside down in holes and their feet set on fire

What is circle eight ditch four?

barraters (gov. officals, lawyers, and judges who take bribes)

What is the punishment for circle eight ditch four?

Coveed in boiling pitchm poked with pitchforks by demons

What is circle eight ditch five?

soothsayers (false prophets, astrologers, soothsayers, and predictors of the future)

What is the punishment for circle eight ditch five?

heads twisted around backwards so they can only see what’s behind them, not what is in front of them

What is circle eight ditch six?

hypocrits

What is the punishment for circle eight ditch six?

forced to wear lead mantles

What is circle eight ditch seven?

thieves and robbers

What is the punishment for circle eight ditch seven?

in a snake pit, half of them transformed into snakes can only regain human form by stealing it from the other half with a snake bite

What is circle eight ditch eight?

evil counsilersW

What is the punishment for circle eight ditch eight?

true nature concealed in flames

What is circle eight ditch nine?

Sowers of Discord

What is the punishment for circle eight ditch nine?

wounds, mutilations

What is circle eight ditch ten?

falsifiers (alchemists, quacks, impersonators, counterfeiters)

What is the punishment for circle eight ditch ten?

afflicted with same ailments resultubg from the treatments (leprosy, madness, dropsy, fevers)

Circle nine

center of hell

Caĩna (named after cain)

murders of family members

What is the punishment in caĩna?

frozen in ice up to the neck with heads bent forward

Antenora

traitors to political party or to country

What is the punishment of Antenora?

frozen up to the neck

Ptolomea

murderers of guests and dependents

What is the punishment Ptolomea?

frozen in ice up to the neck with heads bent backward

Guidecca

traitors to lords and benefactors

Guidecca

completely submerged in ice

Center of Earth

Satan, Judas, Brutus, and Cassius

What is the punishment at the center of earth?

Satan is stuck up to waist in the center of the universe he sought control. He chews on Judas, Brutus, and Cassius with his three months, and with three winds sends forth freezing blasts of impotence, ignorance, and hatred.