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In August 2010, the History Channel premiered a show entitled "The Gates of Hell" (History Specials: Gates of Hell (Season 1, Episode 105), which visited caves and volcanoes in Nicaragua, Belize, Greece, Iceland, Ireland and Ethiopia, to examine the origins of these myths. It featured archaeologists, scholars, explorers and others working in ...
Monaghan, Ireland: R. & S. Printers, 1984. A history of Lough Derg and its institutions. Di Fonzo, Claudia, The Legend of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick: From Ireland to Dante and Beyond, ALLEGORICA: TRADITIONS AND INFLUENCES IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURE (Saint Louis University), vol. 26 (2009-2010), pp. 44–81.
The Darvaza gas crater (Turkmen: Garagum ýalkymy), [1] also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, officially, the Shining of Karakum, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near Darvaza, Turkmenistan. [2] Hundreds of natural gas fires and mud illuminate the floor and rim of the crater. The crater has been burning since 1971.
Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says the Batagaika crater in Siberia expands 35 million cubic feet yearly due to thawing.
Houska Castle, and most specifically the chapel, was constructed over a large hole in the ground that is a "gateway to Hell", which is allegedly so deep that no one could see the bottom of it. [6] Animal-human hybrids were reported to have crawled out of it, and dark-winged, otherworldly creatures flew in its vicinity.
Rathcroghan (Irish: Ráth Cruachan, meaning 'fort of Cruachan') is a complex of archaeological sites near Tulsk in County Roscommon, Ireland.It is identified as the site of Cruachan, the traditional capital of the Connachta, the prehistoric and early historic rulers of the western territory.
The Gauls divided the universe into three parts: Albios ("heaven, white-world, upper-world"), Bitu ("world of the living beings"), and Dubnos ("hell, lower-world, black-world"). [ 13 ] ; [ 14 ] ; [ 15 ] According to Lucan , the Gaulish druids believed that the soul went to an Otherworld, which he calls by the Latin name Orbis alius , before ...
Every month, thousands of Eritreans attempt to flee repression, torture and indefinite forced conscriptions by embarking on a dangerous journey to Europe.