Quote from: SnakeClock;1399792If you're using comic books for research, read the Neil Gaiman Sandman series. Hell is so awesome in those books.

I'm not intentionally using comics, I was just reading Harley Quinn and all of a sudden she's back from Hell!

Relevant: I have noticed that in most of religions, boars, pigs and other hogs represent the devil itself which funilly is an animal with really similar biologic structure as ours.

That is interesting, thank you!

I'll keep that one in mind.

I knew the Aztecs had circles, but I didn't know how many, and I knew heroic deaths were praised. Thanks!

I didn't even knew aztecs had hell circles. I feel buffoned

Quote from: TeddyBear;1399729I'm pretty sure it doesn't either, but generally when someone says Hell, that's what they think of.

In fact, Pope John Paul the Second even said he thinks of Hell more as a separation state from God and such, but I don't need to be concerned with that I don't think.


Also, Chinese Hell scares me. Badly.

That innermost circle is poetically hilarious if you think about it. I can just imagine squatting on that little plinth with all the pissed off flaming skeleton dudes trying to coax me down, eventually resorting to tossing fireballs at me or something.

Quote from: TequilaClock;1399824I didn't even knew aztecs had hell circles. I feel buffoned

Don't, I'm in a class on this shit.
I didn't know Buddhists had Hell but apparently they do too.

Quote from: Solenoidclock;1399826That innermost circle is poetically hilarious if you think about it.

Is that the one where the unlucky ones go into the flames and the lucky ones get to stay shoved on the platform?

See, I read a few and was like "Okay this is a Hell", I read more, got to "Boiled in Oil", "Gouge Heart Out" and went "This is REALLY a Hell".

"Climbing on a mountain of Knives" through "Severed Torso" made me go "Well okay I really don't want to go there at all I'm glad I'm not one of them."

Quote from: TeddyBear;1399827Don't, I'm in a class on this shit.
I didn't know Buddhists had Hell but apparently they do too.

Wait. WAIT. But buddhists don't believe in evil, what the fuck?

Quote from: TequilaClock;1399848Wait. WAIT. But buddhists don't believe in evil, what the fuck?

Well, Tibetan Buddhism has a 49 day long Hell.
Bad things could happen like being devoured by animals, ripped apart by horrific beasts, stabbing, various things like that. However, no matter what happened to you in this Hell, you'd end up reincarnated.

And in Japanese Buddhism has a hell "Jigoku". It has 16 levels, 8 of fire and 8 of ice, and a judge for deciding where you went. They'd reflect on your sins and wickedness, and then would choose which place you went to.

Quote from: TeddyBear;1399830Is that the one where the unlucky ones go into the flames and the lucky ones get to stay shoved on the platform?

Yeah. It's the only one that you never leave, and I think everyone starts out on a platform. It's really small so it's easy to fall off and then you're all burnt and uncomfortable for the rest of eternity. You go there for "shedding the blood of a Buddha" or something along those lines.

Oh, relating to what you said about the icy and fiery hells of Jap Buddhism, you should check out the final panel of the painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

EDIT: Actually, I'll just post some links since it's a bitch to find scanned proper.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~colbert/GardenHUGE.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Hieronymus_Bosch_040.jpg
http://www.vincesear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/bosch.gif

That is one interesting painting.

Quote from: Solenoidclock;1399881http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Hieronymus_Bosch_040.jpg

I like the part where the guy is being eaten by a bird\mouse headed creature as blackbirds are flying out of his ass, and also the guy who is being sodomized by what appears to be a flute.

Quote from: Kombucha;1399888I like the part where the guy is being eaten by a bird\mouse headed creature as blackbirds are flying out of his ass, and also the guy who is being sodomized by what appears to be a flute.

The bird headed creature is one of my favorite parts. Notice the little pitchers on his feet and the water jar on his head. Also, he's sitting on a giant brass toilet, shitting gorged souls into an cesspool/oubliette. You can see faces peering up from the hole, which is full of sloshing water. Just above and to the right of the hole you can see a woman forcing a nude man's head over the bowl, he looks oddly happy for someone vomiting so furiously. Just behind the pair you can see a bed with a man laying in it, partially shrouded in the canopy of the shit devil's cloak. To the top left of the hole, you can see and ass firing lemons in rapid secession, and a woman being fondled by some kind of dog demon...

I love Bosch.

Quote from: Solenoidclock;1399895...you can see and ass firing lemons in rapid secession...

I thought those were gold doublons representing the greedy.

Quote from: TequilaClock;1399898I thought those were gold doublons representing the greedy.

I thought they were pac-dots. Gold works too, but the fact of the matter is something is just slamming through his ass.

What kind of school do you go to? :/

wherever uwe boll goes to is hell

Quote from: TeddyBear;1399734I have to for this class. It's on my shelf right now, I have to start it for next Monday. I also have Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Dr. Faustus and the driest book: A History of the Devil.

There are also some greek poets that wrote good stuff about hell, I just don't remember which ones.