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  2. First circle of hell - Wikipedia

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    The first circle of hell is depicted in Dante Alighieri's 14th-century poem Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy. Inferno tells the story of Dante's journey through a vision of hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin. The first circle is Limbo, the space reserved for those souls who died before baptism and ...

  3. Inferno (Dante) - Wikipedia

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    The deeper levels are organised into one circle for violence (Circle 7) and two circles for fraud (Circles 8 and 9). As a Christian, Dante adds Circle 1 (Limbo) to Upper Hell and Circle 6 (Heresy) to Lower Hell, making 9 Circles in total; incorporating the Vestibule of the Futile, this leads to Hell containing 10 main divisions. [26]

  4. Malebolge - Wikipedia

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    ' evil ditches ') or Fraud is the eighth circle of Hell. [1] It is a large, funnel-shaped cavern, itself divided into ten concentric circular trenches or ditches, each called a bolgia (Italian for 'pouch' or 'ditch'). Long causeway bridges run from the outer circumference of Malebolge to its center, pictured as spokes on a wheel.

  5. Harrowing of Hell - Wikipedia

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    Virgil was in Limbo (the first circle of Hell) in the first place because he was not exposed to Christianity in his lifetime, and therefore he describes Christ in generic terms as a "mighty one" who rescued the Hebrew forefathers of Christianity, but left him and other virtuous pagans behind in the very same circle. It is clear that Virgil does ...

  6. Category:Circles of hell - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Circles of hell" ... Fifth circle of hell; First circle of hell; Fourth circle of hell; I. Inferno (Dante) M. Malebolge; N. Ninth circle of Hell; S.

  7. In the First Circle - Wikipedia

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    The title is an allusion to Dante's first circle, or limbo of Hell in The Divine Comedy, wherein the philosophers of Greece, and other virtuous pagans, live in a walled green garden. They are unable to enter Heaven, as they were born before Christ, but enjoy a small space of relative freedom in the heart of Hell.

  8. Hell - Wikipedia

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    The modern English word hell is derived from Old English hel, helle (first attested around 725 AD to refer to a nether world of the dead) reaching into the Anglo-Saxon pagan period. [1] The word has cognates in all branches of the Germanic languages , including Old Norse hel (which refers to both a location and goddess-like being in Norse ...

  9. First Circle - Wikipedia

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    The First Circle, based on the novel; The First Circle, a Canadian-French television drama film; The First Circle, an English-language drama film; First Circle, a 1984 album by the Pat Metheny Group; 1st Circle, Amman, a large traffic circle in Amman, Jordan; The First Circle of Hell, in Dante's Inferno