The Contrapasso of the sorcerers, astrologers, and false prophets, illustrated by Stradanus For the Westworld episode, see Contrapasso (Westworld). He must first descend through Hell, then ascend through Purgatory and then towards the light of God.This article is about the term from Inferno. What route must Dante take in order to get to the light of God? What is the climate like in the bottom of Hell?
He is crucified to the floor of Hell by three great stakes. What punishment does Caiaphas, the high priest of the Jews who counseled the Pharisees to crucify Jesus in the name of public expedience, get? Punishment: They are buried forever below the stinking waters of the river Styx, gargling the words of an endless chant in a grotesque parody of singing a hymn. Punishment: They are immersed in boiling blood forever. Punishment: They lie completely sealed in ice, twisted and distorted into every conceivable posture.ĭescription: They shed the blood of others. Their heads are above the ice but they cannot bend their heads. Only half their faces are above the ice and their tears freeze in their eye sockets, sealing them with crystal visors. The Treacherous to the Ties of Hospitality Their necks and heads are out of the ice and they are permitted to bow their heads. Punishment: Their bodies are submerged in ice. Punishment: They are in a pit of monstrous reptiles who curl themselves about the sinners like living coils of rope. Punishment: Their souls are encased in thorny trees and their leaves eaten by odius harpies, the overseers of the damned.
Punishment: They are hacked and torn through all eternity by a great demon with a bloody sword. Punishment: They are placed upside down in round, tub-like holes and their feet are set ablaze. Punishment: They make two files, one along either bank of the ditch and are driven at an endless fast walk by horned demons who hurry them along with great lashes.ĭescription: They are sellers of ecclesiastical favors. Punishment: Eternally unclassified, they race round and round pursuing a wavering banner that runs forever before them through dirty air.ĭescription: They took no sides in the rebellion of the angels.ĭescription: They goaded others to serve their own foul purposes. The robes are brilliantly gilded on the outside and are shaped like a monk's habit.ĭescription: Their lives were neither good nor evil but only for themselves. They walk eternally round and round a narrow track. Punishment: They are weighted down by great leaden robes. Punishment: The sinners are divided into two raging mobs, each soul amoung them straining madly at a great boulder-like weight.ĭescription: They appear holy on the outside but are deceitful. Punishment: They are placed in fiery tombs.ĭescription: They lacked all moderation in regulating their expenses. Punishment: They are sunk in boiling pitch and guarded by demons who tear them to pieces with claws and grappling hooks if they catch them above the surface of their pitch.ĭescription: They did violence to God by denying imortality. Punishment: They must spend eternity in a gigantic garbage dump filled with stinking snow, vile slush and freezing rain.ĭescription: They took advantage of their position to gain money and property dishonestly. Their punishment is to have their heads turned backwards on their bodies and to be compelled to walk backwards through all eternity, their eyes blinded by tears.ĭescription: They wallowed in food and drink and made no higher use of the gifts of God. Punishment: They are punished by affliction of every sense: by darkness, stench, thirst, filth, loathsome diseases, and a shreiking din. Punishment: They must run without pause, chasing the internal apparition of those they impersonated while they are preyed upon by their own furies.ĭescription: They are falsifiers of words. Punishment: They are hidden in great flames which are their own guilty conscience.ĭescription: They pretend to be someone else. The disease is compounded by other afflictions including an eternity of unbearable thirst. Punishment: Punished by loathsome diseases, they cannot move from where they lie. Punishment: They are forever swept up in the tempest of Hell, denied the light and reason of God.ĭescription: They are falsifiers of money. They were preoccupied with bodily and sexual pleasures. They are subject to the wrath of nature.ĭescription: They abandoned themselves to the tempest of their passions. Punishment: They walk upon the burning plain.
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