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People who starved themselves in hope of reaching heaven and people who led others to believe in heterodox views will be found in this hell. [67] [68] [65] A second place is the Region of Dark Fire Wind. The people here are prisoned in a whirlwind which causes them to tumble around in circles.
Diyu (traditional Chinese: 地獄; simplified Chinese: 地狱; pinyin: dìyù; lit. 'earth prison') is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology.It is loosely based on a combination of the Buddhist concept of Naraka, traditional Chinese beliefs about the afterlife, and a variety of popular expansions and reinterpretations of these two traditions.
In a 1983 retrial, he was found not guilty of all charges. He died in 2020. [6] [7] 1989 Masao Akahori was convicted in 1954 at the age of 24 of raping and murdering a schoolgirl. In 1989, he became the fourth death row inmate in Japan to be released. [8] [9] [6] 2024 Iwao Hakamada was acquitted in a retrial by the Shizuoka District Court. [10]
Punishment of the sinners in the second circle of hell is an example of Dantean contrapasso. Inspired jointly by the biblical Old Testament and the works of ancient Roman writers, contrapasso is a recurring theme in the Divine Comedy , in which a soul's fate in the afterlife mirrors the sins committed in life; here the restless, unreasoning ...
The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living. [1] Chthonic is the technical adjective for things of the underworld. The concept of an underworld is found in almost every civilization and "may be as old as humanity ...
A large portion of it is designed to help people of the Hindu faith understand evil deeds (pātaka) and their karmic consequences in various hellish rebirths. The Manusmrti, however, does not go into explicit detail of each hell. For this we turn to the Bhagavata Purana. The Manusmrti lists multiple levels of hell in which a person can be ...
Pages in category "People executed for heresy" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 310 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The prisoners in hell come to the dreadful place called Santakshana (i.e. cutting), where the cruel punishers tie their hands and feet, and with axes in their hands cut them like wooden planks. And they turn the writhing victims round, and stew them, like living fishes, in an iron caldron filled with their own blood, their limbs covered with ...