Hell

Hell, fire prison, underworld, realm of the dead, Tartarus.

They were like a Sword of Damocles forever hanging over the heads of devout believers, forever reminding them to observe the commandments, forever reminding them to uphold their inner morality, forever reminding them not to bully the weak with strength, forever reminding them to obey the law.

But morality and order built on fear would eventually fade away.

As the years passed, those who had truly seen this strange realm died one after another. Reality became legend, legend became myth, and myth gradually became all manner of enduring literary works and art.

Dante Alighieri, Mazzolini, Goethe, Plato, Michel Morgner—countless renowned human writers, painters, and artists used strokes and prose bordering on the divine in their works to reveal this strange and terrifying realm to the world.

In their writing and on their canvases, this peculiar realm either "flowed with a sea of boiling, scorching blood, where the souls of sinners soaked within it, their miserable howls, steamed up by the heat of the blood sea, audible in every corner of the realm."

Or it was "filled with towering structures ablaze with fire. Inside the city stretched an endless cemetery, where opened coffins spewed flames. Followers of heretical doctrines and Epicurean teachings, those who did not revere God or obey His teachings, were imprisoned within stone coffins burning with fire and tortured."

Or "sinners were pierced one after another by red-hot iron skewers, standing upon jagged cliffs beneath the blazing sun, battered by fierce cold winds, and subjected to the tearing and pecking of giant eagles."

Descriptions like these flooded into the minds of the world through the works of writers, painters, and artists.

Gradually, hell once again became synonymous with fear.

Myths turned back into irrefutable truths, and religion became a