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Are You Searching For Directions To The Real Locations To The
Seven Gates Of Hell?
ABANDON
ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE
Where in The World, Or All Of The Seven Gates Of Hell Located?
BY CHASE MASON
Many over the past few centuries tell that the Seven Gates of Hell or each located on one of each of the continents. The seven traditional continents are (from largest in size to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. That Means That there is one Gate of Hell for each Continent respectively. Of course this is one of the greatest urban myths of today. I hope?
But over the years many strange tales have arisen concering their specific location and what happens to you if you dare to find them. Truth or fiction the tales often grow with each telling. Many forums, blogs and message boards are filled with the evil's and misconceptions of what a doorway to hell is really like and where it might be found.
The Gate to Hell in Africa many say is located in Egypt. The exact locations said by many would be gate searchers is thought to be located directly under the left paw of the great Sphinx. This Horrific Gate is known to be Called the Gate to The Underworld or After Life, the great hall of records. To this date no one has entered it or found it.
The idea that there is a chamber beneath the Great Sphinx at Giza likely has its roots in antiquity. In his Natural History, Pliny wrote:
In front of them [i.e. The Giza Pyramids] is the Sphinx, which deserves to be described even more than they, and yet the Egyptians have passed it over in silence. The inhabitants of the region regard it as a deity. They are of the opinion that a King Harmais is buried inside it... [Book 36 XVII]
But it was Edgar Cayce, the "sleeping prophet," who popularized the idea of a secret chamber associated with the Sphinx. According to Cayce, there is a "Hall of Records" with an entrance to be found between the paws of the Sphinx. In answer to the request, "Give in detail what the sealed room contains," Cayce answered:
A record of Atlantis from the beginning of those periods when the Spirit took form, or began the encasements in that land; and the developments of the peoples throughout their sojourn; together with the record of the first destruction, and the changes that took place in the land; with the record of the sojournings of the peoples and their varied activities in other lands, and a record of the meetings of all the nations or lands, for the activities in the destruction of Atlantis; and the building of the pyramid of initiation, together with whom, what, and where the opening of the records would come, that are as copies from the sunken Atlantis. For with the change, it [Atlantis] must rise again. In position, this lies -- as the sun rises from the waters -- as the line of the shadows (or light) falls between the paws of the Sphinx; that was set later as the sentinel or guard and which may not be entered from the connecting chambers from the Sphinx's right paw until the time has been fulfilled when the changes must be active in this sphere of man's experience. Then [it lies] between the Sphinx and the river. [378-16; Oct 29, 1933]
In the years to come, Cayce would speak more on the subject of the so-called Hall of Records:
It would be well if this entity were to seek either of the three phases of the ways and means in which those records of the activities of individuals were preserved -- the one in the Atlantean land, that sank, which will rise and is rising again; another in the place of the records that leadeth from the Sphinx to the hall of records, in the Egyptian land; and another in the Aryan or Yucatan land, where the temple there is overshadowing same. [2012-1; Sep 25, 1939]
... the entity joined with those who were active in putting the records in forms that were partially of the old characters of the ancient or early Egyptian, and part in the newer form of the Atlanteans. These may be found, especially when the house or tomb of records is opened, in a few years from now. [2537-1; Jul 17, 1941]
... [the entity] was among the first to set the records that are yet to be discovered or yet to be had of those activities in the Atlantean land, and for the preservation of data that is yet to be found from the chambers of the way between the Sphinx and the pyramid of records. [3575-2; Jan 20, 1944. Excerpts from Cayce, Edgar. On Atlantis. New York: Warner Books, 1968.]
The Rosicrucian's seized the idea of a secret chamber as a place of initiation. (For more information and diagrams of their "Subterranean Hall," see The Rosicrucian View.) In more recent years, the theory of yet undiscovered chambers in the area of the Sphinx has been popularized by authors quick to criticize "mainstream" Egyptologists. In their book The Message of the Sphinx, Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval report on the use of modern technology to investigate the ground surrounding the Sphinx:
In 1973-4 . . . the first in a series of serious pioneering projects was launched, using ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech remote sensing equipment to locate "anomalies" under the bedrock beneath the Sphinx. These projects were channeled through well-established academic institutions - the Ain Shams University in Cairo and the prestigious Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the USA.
In 1977 the US National Science Foundation funded a project at Giza again involving the SRI. This time use was made of several new techniques such as resistivity measurements (from metal rods driven into the rock across which an electric current was passed), magnetometry, and also the latest aerial photography and thermal infrared image-enhancing techniques. According to the SRI team's official report: "Several anomalies were observed as a result of our resistivity survey at the Sphinx ... Behind the rear paws (north-west end) we ran two traverses. Both traverses indicate an anomaly that could possibly be due to a tunnel aligned north-west to south-east ..." Two other anomalies were noted, deep in the bedrock "in front of the paws of the Sphinx." [p. 90-91]
Hancock and Bauval quote SRI geophysicist Lambert Dolphin, who relayed to me a rather different conclusion in a personal correspondence (click here for the full text):
Next we drilled 4 inch bore holes on the anomalies and inspected the hole with downhole TV. Nothing was found except small cracks. We paid special attention to the front paws, and under the paws. No chambers!
I do not believe there are any chambers under the Sphinx at this point in time.
There are three known passageways leading into the Sphinx. One is on the back of the Sphinx near its head. This shaft is short and leads to a dead end. Another is at ground level on the north side of the Sphinx near its hip. This shaft has been explored and leads to a dead end below the water table.
This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals "The Door to Hell".
It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it's burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.
The Gate of hell in Asia is located in Aokigahara (青木ヶ原), also known as the Sea of Trees (樹海, Jukai), is a forest that lies at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. The caverns found in this forest are rocky and ice-covered annually. It has been claimed by local residents and visitors that the woods are host to a great amount of paranormal phenomena. It is an old ancient forest reportedly haunted by many urban historical legends of strange beasts, monsters, ghosts, and goblins, which add to its serious and sinister reputation.
Some in the world will tell you it is one of the actual seven gates to hell! The location is said to haunted by demons as well as ghosts. These demons or those that make you take your life. I found these forest to be very disturbing and in my mind what a hideous place of beauty for a infernal hole to hell to be in.
Below is the video of the actual research for a Swedish documentary about Aokigahara Jukai, a forest near Mt Fuji in Japan. The forest is famous for being a place where people choose to commit suicide. With english subtitles.
Near or under the Great Temple Mount In Israel. One if the possible gates to hell is called Satan's Front Door. Some scholars will argue that this door was once in Rome and Moved to the Holy land when Israel Became a State 14 May 1948. It is Believed it took 2 thousand legions of demons and Devil's to move the great gate because it is the most powerful and strongest doors that Satan has for gaining souls. When it Was Rome their were two gates of hell on the continent and it is believe that the great Caesar's had it originally moved there when they found it in The Holy Land originally.
In 1867, a team from the Royal Engineers, led by Lieutenant Charles Warren (later the London police commissioner of Jack the Ripper fame) and financed by the Palestine Exploration Fund (P.E.F.), discovered a series of tunnels beneath Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, some of which were directly underneath the headquarters of the Knights Templar.
Various small artifacts were found which indicated that Templar's had used some of the tunnels, though it is unclear who exactly first dug them. Some of the ruins which Warren discovered came from centuries earlier, and other tunnels which his team discovered had evidently been used for a water system, as they led to a series of cisterns.
The Gate to Hell is by many thought to be located in Europe. And it is hidden in Pere Lachaise Paris Cemetery Paris. It is said to be a great grand gate with very notable significance. this gate is said to be the one that all great heads of state must enter through when they die. And through this gate World Leaders must be judged by the Devil first and not God. Many tales tell of vampire-like entities guarding the entrance. Some believe that the Underground catacombs of Paris are the true gates but many beg to differ.
Some searchers believe that the actual Hellfire Caves Buckinghamshire, England is a indirect gate to Hell. Some call it a side door to the dark underworld of Satan.
West Wycombe Caves, also known as Hellfire Caves, located in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England, are most well known as a meeting place for members of The Hellfire Club. The caves were extended by Sir Francis Dashwood (later Lord le Despencer) between 1748–1752. They provided work for unemployed farm workers following a succession of harvest failures, and lie close to Dashwood's country house, West Wycombe Park (now owned by the National Trust). The chalk mines that were extended to form the caves had existed near High Wycombe for a considerable time. The mines are said to have a prehistoric origin, and were presumably created to extract the flint found in the chalk to make hand tools. Locally, flint is used as a building material.
The entrance to the caves is built from flint, and St Lawrence's church, above the Inner Temple, is also built using flint. Due to the extensive alterations made by Dashwood, all evidence of the caves' earlier history seem to have been destroyed. The underground "rooms" are named, from the Entrance Hall, through the Circle, Franklin's Cave (named after Benjamin Franklin, a friend of Dashwood who stayed with him at West Wycombe), the Banqueting Hall, the Triangle, to the Miner's Cave; finally, across a subterranean river named the Styx, lies the final cave, the Inner Temple. An alternative viewpoint was advanced by Daniel P Mannix in his book about The Hellfire Club. This theory suggests that the caves had been deliberately created by Dashwood according to a sexual design.The design begins at the 'womb' of the Banqueting Hall, leading to rebirth through the female triangle, followed by baptism in the River Styx and the pleasures thereafter of the Inner Temple.
This theory is not mentioned in National Trust literature and is allegedly refuted by the Dashwood family.The flint mining theory is also questionable because the Chiltern Hills flint bed overlays the chalk escarpment and does not have to be mined except by means of small open flint dells of which there are many on the area.The caves were refurbished and made suitable for visitors during the 1950s by the late Sir Francis Dashwood, 11th Baronet.
They are now open as a tourist attraction, with life-sized waxwork figures in period costume illustrating the life of the caves in the 18th century. The caves have attracted over 2 million visitors since 1951.
The Gate to Hell in South America is located in Rio de Janeiro. Harbour of Rio de Janeiro is one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. The actual open gate yo hell is said to be near where the world famous "Christ the Redeemer" Statue stands. Some say the entrance is in an underwater cave or hidden near the top of Corcovado Peak. Locals believe that during the festival of Carnival the gate swings open to trap those that or unaware of it's location who deserve to be taken to hell alive.
The gate has also been thought to be located at Machu Picchu, Iguazu Falls, Angel Falls, the Nazca lines are thought by some to point the way, Galapagos, along the Amazon which is thought to originate or flow into the river Styx, Patagonia, Andes.
The North American Gate is said to be located at or very near the Tomb Of the great Voodoo - Hoodoo Queen, Marie Laveau. Many say it is the doorway to the home of the eternally tortured and living dead. Many old tales tell of strange monsters issuing from the infernal gates. Vampires zombies and a host of Ghede and strange half dead beings.
The real Gate To Hell The Voodoo Cemetery Gates Of Guinee
The Secret Portal To The Afterworld Voodoo Hoodoo Hell
New Orleans Voodooists celebrate Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Carnival or Mardi Gras, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day on the days that are traditionally celebrated in other parts of the world. Flag and University Day is the most celebrated national holiday and is held on May 18. Other important holidays are Ancestors Day (January 2), Twelfth Night Day (January 6), St. Johns Eve (June 23) the Anniversary of Dessalines' (1) Death (October 17), and Discovery of Haiti Day (December 5). All these are important times when it is said the Seven Voodoo gates to hell are wide open and should not be sought out.
Some in New Orleans say there is only one gate others say seven and still others say nine.
The exact location of the haunted cemetery gates isn't really ever told to outsiders of the Secret Societies. New Orleans Tour Guides and Haunted Cemetery or ghost tours will skirt around the issue, or just look at you like they don't know what your talking about, so never mention it (seriously). They say just to talk about the accursed cemetery gates spells doom to those that ask or search for it or speak of it openly to anyone. Those who know feel it is inviting them , "The Ghede" to take you away. Only someone pure of heart with only one burning question to be answered by the dead is ever told the whole truth. A unnamed New Orleans Voodoo priestess says quite bluntly, search and you shall find them rusted shut, or worse they will certainly find you and be wide and opened. Its primary goal is to both enlighten and bridge the worlds of the dead and the living, considered the most sacred and the profane.
Some believe that the X crossed tomb of Marie Laveau (2) is this hidden legendary portal. And truly believe it is not wise to visit her tomb all alone. They will warn you that you may be pulled into the after world with no hope of escape. A person can instantly die and be taken back to the afterworld. Still worse you or taken there alive!
Those who practice Voodoo believe in a pantheon of gods who control and represent the laws and forces of the universe. In this pantheon, there is the Supreme Deity, the master of all gods, the loa who are a large group of lesser deities, and the twins known as marassas. Twins are believed to have special powers and once a year special services are held for them.
Ghede' is a very wise man for his knowledge is an accumulation of the knowledge of all the deceased. He stands on the center of all the roads that lead to Guinee, the afterworld. To find these mysterious gates in the city of New Orleans might take a little detective work. Some Locals say if their open when you find them... beware! If you then enter you will never return to the real world.
To find these gates, they say is to find the way to communicate openly with the dead. And not just the spirits of those that have died in New Orleans. Local Voodoo followers of Marie Laveau's' Secret Society profess that anyone can come to these gates of Guinee if you can find them.
To find the gates one need only listen... Deep within the gates there can be heard a distant sound, the pulse of the rhythmic beat of dancing drums beckoning you to come closer.
Speak the name of the deceased you wish to speak to aloud five times through the bars, and they will come and speak to you from the other side. One real warning though, if the rusted shut heavy gate opens do not enter. For you will be one of the living trapped in the world of the dead forever. If you arrive and the Guinee gates are open turn and walk away crossing yourself three times as fast as you can and don't look back.
In New Orleans voodoo-religion, Guinee is the legendary place of origin and abode of the voodoo gods. It is here that the souls of the deceased go after their death. On their way to Guinee, they first have to pass the eternal crossroads which is guarded by Ghede.
" Although one is pure of thoughts and in heart, searches for the gates of the truly dead. You never know when the winter winds (November) blow, If the cursed gates are searching for you too."
"If you enter the gates backwards you might have a small chance, to flee with your life all intact. But if your motives are untrue then the living death calls your name , then there is nothing you can do."
Attributed to Madame Marie Laveau, 1800's New Orleans
Ghede is represented as an undertaker, dressed completely in black wearing dark glasses. His followers disguise themselves as corpses and they dance the Banda Mardi Gras Day. Other members of his retinue are Baron la Croix (Baron of the Cross) is the mystical Baron responsible for the reclamation of souls, and Baron Cemetière a spirit of the dead. And they say he loves nothing more then a slice of King Cake left for him at any cemetery gate. Waiting to possess people gathered to watch, the Ghede can be considered very dangerous. If touched by these powerful deities, a person can instantly die and be taken back to the afterworld.
Legends and Lore of Illinois Vol. 3 Issue 1 tells that Lebanon Road is home to the "7 Gates to Hell," seven railroad bridges (guarded by 'hell hounds') that allegedly lead to the underworld. Nighttime interlopers along Lebanon Road have woven a tale that a portal to Hell can be unlocked by passing through all seven bridges by midnight.
Another tall tale tells that in York, Pennsylvania there was once a terrible mental or insane asylum which had caught fire. Or the fire was set by an inmate or a crazed doctor calling up Satan to either make a pact or rescue him from his plight.
Some strange tales tell of the use of the legendary Necronomicon as being at the root. No matter where the story goes a fire is said to have started under strange circumstances.
The inmates tried to escape through the forest as the building burnt to the ground on which the asylum was located.
Surrounding the asylum were supposedly seven iron gates which trapped the inmates. Many were killed by the fire or by other inmates. To this day, it is said that no one has made it past the location of the Fifth Gate and returned out of the forest alive.
I know people who actually grew up in York, Pa and have heard this legend directly. Trout Run Rd & Range Road the 2 roads that are supposed to lead to Toad Road. The road that is supposed to lead to the Asylum. And if you do a little more research on this you will find that the hospital never existed. The supposed location is private property. The area is patrolled by the police and you may be arrested for trespassing.
In Antarctica at the South Pole itself. Many believe it is a reference to hell freezing over. According to the Hollow Earth hypothesis, the planet Earth is either wholly hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. The hypothesis has long been contradicted by overwhelming observational evidence, as well as by the modern understanding of planet formation; the scientific community has dismissed the notion since at least the late 18th century. The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as the premise for a subgenre of adventure fiction. It also features in some present-day pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories. Many relate that these opeings at the North and South Pole are actual gateways to hell.
The Nazi era Thule Society reported much about Tibetan myths of openings into the Earth. There is even a theory that Hitler ordered a research journey for such an opening in Antarctica, based on a speech of Admiral Dönitz in front of a German submarine in 1944, when he claimed "The German submarine fleet is proud of having built an invisible fortification for the Führer, anywhere in the world." During the Nuremberg Trials, Dönitz spoke of "an invisible fortification, in midst of the eternal ice."[4] An early twentieth-century proponent of hollow Earth, William Reed, wrote Phantom of the Poles in 1906. He supported the idea of a hollow Earth, but without interior shells or inner sun. Marshall Gardner wrote A Journey to the Earth's Interior in 1913 and an expanded edition in 1920. He placed an interior sun in the hollow Earth. He even built a working model of the hollow Earth and patented it (#1096102). Gardner made no mention of Reed, but did take Symmes to task for his ideas. In the same time Vladimir Obruchev wrote a fiction novel Plutonia, where the hollow Earth's interior possessed one inner (central) sun and was inhabited by prehistoric species. The interior was connected with the surface by a hole in the Arctic. Other writers have proposed that "ascended masters" of esoteric wisdom inhabit subterranean caverns or a hollow Earth. Antarctica, the North Pole, Tibet, Peru, and Mount Shasta in California, USA, have all had their advocates as the locations of entrances to a subterranean realm referred to as Agartha, with some even advancing the hypothesis that UFOs have their homeland in these places. A book allegedly by a "Dr. Raymond Bernard" which appeared in 1964, The Hollow Earth, exemplifies this idea. The book rehashes Reed and Gardner's ideas and ignores Symmes. Bernard also adds his own ideas: UFOs come from the interior, the Ring Nebula proves the existence of hollow worlds, etc.
An article by Martin Gardner revealed that Dr.Walter Siegmeister used the pseudonym `Bernard', but not until the publishing of Walter Kafton-Minkel's Subterranean Worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarves, the dead, lost races & UFOs from inside the Earth, in 1989, did the full story of Bernard/Siegmeister become well known. The pages of the science fiction pulp magazine Amazing Stories promoted one such idea from 1945 to 1949 as "the Shaver Mystery". The magazine's editor, Ray Palmer, ran a series of stories by Richard Sharpe Shaver supposedly claimed as factual, though presented in the context of fiction. Shaver claimed that a superior pre-historic race had built a honeycomb of caves in the Earth, and that their degenerate descendants, known as "Dero", live there still, using the fantastic machines abandoned by the ancient races to torment those of us living on the surface. As one characteristic of this torment, Shaver described "voices" that purportedly came from no explainable source.
Thousands of readers wrote to affirm that they, too, had heard the fiendish voices from inside the Earth. Fantastic stories (supposedly believed as factual within fringe circles) have also circulated that Adolf Hitler and some of his followers escaped to hollow lands within the Earth after World War II via an entrance in Antarctica.
The Gate in Australia is said to be located in the Rookwood Cemetery, Greater Sydney. to find this gate is to be damned by God through out all eternity. The gate is said to be invisible but you know you are near it when you smell sulphur and brimstone.
There are also what is called the 13 lost Gates of Hell. A old legend tells that God made & more gates to confuse the Devil and scattered them in other cities through out the world. Only God knows where these are. At Times it has been said God himself might use one of these secret doors to gain access to hell. Some believed Jesus did and that is how he got in and out so easily with out the devil knowing it.
Many believe The Devil Knows about the supposed Gate to Hell in Galveston, Texas, and of the one in Berlin Germany, and the one in the center of the crater of Mount Vesuvius. Their is also one in Mount Fuji. And the one in Russia's cold Siberia.
Taken from an audio clip of Art Bell's popular radio show, Coast to Coast AM, I created a video on the creepy sounds of what is hell. Decide for yourself if you believe it's real.
Real Sounds From Hell
A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams. "We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment."
"But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams werent those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of humans!"
Researchers record the screams of the damned?
Fact or fiction? You decide.
But to Satan the rest of the actual doors or gates forever lost to him. Those the two or three or four he needs to locate, many say, "If he finds them the world will end immediately."
As for Heaven.. there is only one way in, and one way out !
Do the real Seven Gates of Of Hell Exist? Is
there a real gate or a ordinary door that can
bring us all physically straight to hell? Or a
portal that can bring or lock away all that is
a damnation to God?
It is not until the beginning
of canto 3 that Dante finally enters hell-- at
least its outer region--by passing through a gateway.
The inscription above this gate--ending with the
famous warning to "abandon all hope"--
establishes Dante's hell as a creation not of
evil and the devil but rather of his Christian
God, here expressed in terms of the Trinity: Father
(Divine Power), Son (Highest Wisdom), and Holy
Spirit (Primal Love).
You may have heard of many places that claim
to have the real "Seven Gates Of Hell", but do they really exist?
The Gates of Hell, Musée Rodin.
The sculptural
ensemble was commissioned by the Directorate of
Fine Arts in 1880 and was meant to be delivered
in 1885. Rodin would continue to work on and off
this project for 37 years, until his death in 1917.
The Directorate asked for an inviting entrance
to a planned Decorative Arts Museum with the theme
being left to Rodin's selection. Rodin admired
Dante and was subjugated by the reading of the
Inferno. He had sketches of some of Dante's characters
before the commission.
The Decoratives Arts Museum was never built.
Rodin worked on this project on the ground floor
of the Hôtel Biron. Near the end of his
life, Rodin donated sculptures, drawings and reproduction
rights to the French government. In 1919, two
years after his death, The Hôtel Biron became
the Musée Rodin housing a cast of The Gates
of Hell and related works.
The plaster original was restored in 1917 and
is displayed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
A series of plaster casts illustrating the development
of the work is on view at the Musée Rodin
in Meudon. Also in 1917, a model was used to make
the original three bronze casts:
* The Musée Rodin, Paris:
* The Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* The National Museum of Western Art[1] in Ueno
Park, Tokyo.
Subsequent bronzes have been distributed by the
Musée Rodin to a number of locations, including:
* The Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
* The B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden
at Stanford University
* The Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
STORY BY J. Monad
Abandon
hope all ye who enter here! The supposed inscription
at the entrance to Hell. In this Article I
want to track down the real Gate or Seven
Gates of Hell. Some say there is only one
main entrance to the realm of the truly damned.
Others believe the 7 gates of hell as a myth
or local urban legend.
The Shakir Translation in English
states:
43:"Surely hell is the promised place
of them all:
44: It has seven gates; for every gate there
shall be a separate party of them"
[Surah 15: 43-44] M.H. Shakir Translation
Published on 3rd January, 2005/ 22 Zhul-Qadah,
1425
The phrase("Abandon hope
all ye who enter here") taken from Dante's
Divine Comedy. The translation into English
by H.F.Cary is the origin for this English
phrase, although he gave it as the less commonly
used 'All hope abandon ye who enter here'.
Through me you pass
into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder
of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create
were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Such characters in
colour dim I mark'd
Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd:
Whereat I thus: Master, these words import.
Illustration 25 of Divine
Comedy: Inferno by Paul Gustave Doré
(1832-1883)
Dante Alighieri wrote this allegorical epic
poem between 1306 and 1321. Virgil is the
guide who takes the reader through the author's
examination of the afterlife. It travels through
the Inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory),
and the Paradiso (Heaven).
Some called the Gates To Hell
- The Nazi Death Camps. Others say nine "Abandon
hope all ye who enter here Gates of Hell"
exist on the earth ever open for the unsuspecting
to enter.
William Blake, Dante and Virgil
at the Gates of Hell
La Porte de l'Enfer (translated
The Gates of Hell) is a monumental sculptural
group work by French artist Auguste Rodin
that depicts a scene from "The Inferno",
the first section of The Divine Comedy by
Dante Alighieri. It stands at 6 m high, 4
m wide and 1 m deep (19.69'H X 13.12'W X 3.29'D)
and contains 180 figures. The figures range
from 15 cm high up to more than one metre.
Several of the figures were also cast independently
by Rodin.
Some say All
Seven Gates of Hell located in New Jersey,
New York, Stull, Kansas, or in even on the
land of Voodoo, New Orleans?
To call the seven gates of
hell an urban legend goes back before there
were urban's. Safely we can call it legend,
but is there any truth to be found?
Some Americans say The Seven Gates of Hell
are located in Hellam, near York, in Pennsylvania,
Some believe and swear it to be located
New Jersey or New York...
The story goes that there was once a mental
asylum which had caught fire. The inmates
tried to escape through the forest in which
the asylum was located. Surrounding the
asylum were seven gates which trapped the
inmates. Many were killed by the fire or
by other inmates. To this day, it is said
that no one has made it past the location
of the Fifth Gate and returned out of the
forest. The Mysterious haunted Toad Road
name often comes in to play when the story
is told no matter where the location is
described to be.
Stull, Kansas - Gates to Hell
Apparently there are seven "Gates to
Hell" that are located around America.
Stull, KS is a very small town located between
Lawrence, KS (home of the KU Jayhawks) and
Clinton Dam. The town itself is quiet and
keeps to itself and, as can be expected,
not much happens in Stull; that is, not
much happens until Halloween.
Gustave Dore Gate of Hell
One of these seven gates is claimed to
be located in the Stull Cemetery and "opens
up" only on Halloween at midnight.
It is fabled that you can see blood on gravestones,
hear and see strange sights and even throw
a glass bottle at a wall surrounding the
cemetery as hard as you want and it won't
break! These stories have been linked to
Stull for more than 100 years. In November
1974, an article appeared in the University
of Kansas student newspaper that spoke of
a number of strange occurrences in the Stull
churchyard. According to the article, Stull
was “haunted by diabolical, supernatural
happenings” and the asserted that
the cemetery was one of the two places on
earth where the devil appears in person
two times each year.
The goddess could be worshipped as both
male and female Ishtar, reflecting her dual
role of sex and war as well as the evening
and morning aspects of the planet.
Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the
Gates of Hell by William Blake
Ishtar from whom we derive Easter went
through the seven gates of hell to find
Tammuz so that he could play the magical
flute and smell the incense. The fertility
goddess caused all natural processes to
fail until she was rescued. The women in
Ezekiel 8 lamented for Tammuz while the
men held an early Sun Rise Service right
there at the Temple in Jerusalem. Ishtar
is worshiped in musical praise each year
in thousands of churches.
When Ishtar reached the gate of the Land
of No Return (The Netherword or Hell),
She said to the gatekeeper:
"O gatekeeper, open thy gate,
Open thy gate so I may enter!
If thou openest not the gate so that I cannot
enter,
I will smash the door, I will shatter the
bolt,
I will smash the doorpost, I will move the
doors,
I will raise up the dead eating the living,
So that the dead will outnumber the living."
The gatekeeper opened his mouth to speak,
Saying to exalted Ishtar:
"Stop, my lady, do not throw it down!
I will go to announce thy name to Queen
Ereshkigal."
The gatekeeper entered, saying to Ereshkigal
(Ishtar or Inanna's sister):
"Behold, they sister Ishtar is waiting
at the gate,
She who upholds the great festivals,
Who stirs up the deep before Ea, the king."
When Ereshkigal heard this, her face turned
pale like a cut-down tamarisk,
While her lips turned dark like a bruised
kuninu-reed.
What drove her heart to me? What impelled
her spirit hither?
Lo, should I drink water with the Anunnaki?
Should I eat clay for bread, drink muddied
water for beer?
Should I bemoan the men who left their wives
behind?
Should I bemoan the maidens who were wretched
from the laps of their lovers?
Or should I bemoan the tender little one
who was sent off before his time?
Go, gatekeeper, open the gate for her,
Treat her in accordance with the ancient
rules."
Forth went the gatekeeper to open the door
for her:
"Enter, my lady, that Cutha may rejoice
over thee,
That the palace of the Land of No Return
may be glad at they presence."
When the first gate he had made her enter,
He stripped and took away the great crown
on her head.
"Why, o gatekeeper, didst thou take
the great crown on my head?"
"Enter, my lady, thus are the rules
of the Mistress of the Underworld."
When the second gate he had made her enter,
He stripped and took away the pendants on
her ears.
"Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take
the pendants on my ears?"
"Enter, my lady, thus are the rules
of the Mistress of the Underworld."
When the third gate he had made her enter,
He stripped and took away the chains round
her neck.
"Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take
the chains round my neck?"
"Enter, my lady, thus are the rules
of the Mistress of the Underworld."
When the fourth gate he had made her enter,
He stripped and took away the ornaments
on her breast.
"Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take
the ornaments on my breast?"
"Enter, my lady, thus are the rules
of the Mistress of the Underworld."
When the fifth gate he had made her enter,
He stripped and took away the girdle of
birthstones on her hips.
"Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take
the girdle of birthstones on my hips?"
"Enter, my lady, thus are the rules
of the Mistress of the Underworld."
When the sixth gate he had made her enter,
He stripped and took away the clasps round
her hands and feet.
"Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take
the clasps round my hands and feet?"
"Enter, my lady, thus are the rules
of the Mistress of the Underworld."
When the seventh gate he had made her enter,
He stripped and took away the breechcloth
round her body.
"Why, O gatekeeper, didst thou take
the breechcloth round my body?"
"Enter, my lady, thus are the rules
of the Mistress of the Underworld."
Directions
And Attractions At the Gates Of Hell!
Charon
Charon,
in Greek mythology, is the ferryman
of the dead. The souls of the deceased
are brought to him by Hermes, and
Charon ferries them across the river
Acheron. He only accepts the dead
which are buried or burned with the
proper rites, and if they pay him
an obolus (coin) for their passage.
For that reason a corpse had always
an obolus placed under the tongue.
Those
who cannot afford the passage, or
are not admitted by Charon, are doomed
to wander on the banks of the Styx
for a hundred years. Living persons
who wish to go to the underworld need
a golden bough obtained from the Cumaean
Sibyl. Charon is the son of Erebus
and Nyx. He is depicted as an sulky
old man, or as a winged demon carrying
a double hammer. He is similar to
the Etruscan (Charun).
Cerberus
Cerberus
or Kerberos, In Greek mythology, "demon
of the pit") was the hound of
Hades, a monstrous three-headed dog
(sometimes said to have 50 or 100
heads) called a hellhound. Cerberus
guarded the gate to Hades and ensured
that spirits of the dead could enter,
but none could exit (additionally,
no living person was to come into
Hades). Among his siblings are Chimera
and the Hydra. He is the offspring
of Echidna and Typhon.
He was overcome several times:
Hercules' final labour was to capture
Cerberus, which he did by wrestling
it into submission.
Orpheus used his musical skills to
lull Cerberus to sleep.
Hermes put him to sleep with water
from the river Lethe.
In Roman mythology, the Sybil of Cumae
lulled Cerberus to sleep with drugged
honeycakes in order to permit Aeneas
fuller entry to the underworld.
In a Greek tale, Psyche also lulled
Cerberus to sleep with drugged honeycakes.
In The Inferno, Cerberus punishes
the gluttons and is passed by Virgil
and Dante due to Virgil throwing him
a body part of one of Cerberus' victims.
In the Greek Oracle of the Dead at
Cumae in southern Italy, the recently
excavated subterranean shrine was
found to contain chains fixed to the
wall for three large dogs before the
entrance to the shrine of Hades and
Persephone. The three dogs would have
represented Cerberus in this ancient
temple.
Beham, (Hans) Sebald (1500-1550):
Hercules capturing Cerberus, 1545
(B., P. 104 iii/iii) from The Labours
of Hercules (1542-1548). Final state.
A hellhound is a demonic dog of Hell,
found in mythology or in fiction.
Hellhounds typically have features
such as an unnaturally large size,
a black fur color, glowing eyes, super
strength or speed, ghostly or phantom
characteristics, and sometimes even
the ability to talk. They are often
assigned to guard the entrance to
the world of the dead or undertake
other duties related to the afterlife
or the supernatural, such as hunting
down lost souls or guarding a supernatural
treasure.
The most famous hellhound is probably
Cerberus, the hound of Hades from
Greek mythology. Hellhounds are also
famous for appearing in Celtic mythology
as part of the Wild Hunt. These hounds
are given several different names
in local folklore, but they display
typical hellhound characteristics.
The myth is common across Great Britain,
and many names are given to the apparitions:
Black Shuck of East Anglia (which
has its roots in the Mythology of
the Vikings rather than of the Celts),
Moddey Dhoo of the Isle of Man, Gwyllgi
of Wales, and so on. The earliest
mention of these myths are in both
Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium (1190)
and the Welsh myth cycle of the Four
Branches of the Mabinogi (ca. 10th-13th
century).
Dante's Inferno by Dante
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