Dante's inferno part 1

Dante's inferno was originally from a book. Dante-main character inferno-hell The book is not really based on the bible but his own thoughts on it.

Dante Alighieri wrote a poem from the Divine Comedies about Dante's inferno, it depicted hell as nine distinct circles in the core of the earth. Originally there are three realms for the dead-Inferno (hell) purgatorio (purgatory, and paridiso (Heaven). The book and the game start out differently, the game starts off with Dante in a crusade war and gets stabbed in which he meets and kills death, he also takes death's scythe. In the book however he is riding a horse and is confronted by a beast and a stranger (who later becomes the man who killed Dante's family.) Dante especially loved his dear Beatrice whom by the way made a deal with the devil for Dante's safe return from the war. That is why he goes to hell to save her. Near the gates of hell, he meets a poet named Virgil, who agrees to guide him through Hell's 9 circles and to destroy Lucifer or the betrayer angel.

The first Circle of hell is called Limbo or for the pagan ones who did not sin, but also did not believe in God. There Dante meets Homer, Aristotle, Socrates etc... Mostly for the thinkers who did not believe in God but Science. The others who arent Pagans are bought to Minos who decides where each soul goes in the other eight circles.

The second circle of hell is Lust the sinners here are put into a everlasting violent storm in which they are blown everywhere without rest Dante sees Dido and many others here, the special one here though was Paolo Malatesta who committed adultery, but died a violent death here is a quote from an english poet John Keats about how Paolo would feel like

But to that second circle of sad hell,
Where ‘mid the gust, the whirlwind, and the flaw
Of rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell
Their sorrows. Pale were the sweet lips I saw,
Pale were the lips I kiss’d, and fair the form
I floated with, about that melancholy storm

The third circle is gluttony which is guarded by Cerberus the three headed demon minion, the gluttons are basically fat people who are forced to lie in a vile slush produced by ceaseless foul, icy rain. To get past Cerberus, Virgil put mud in its mouth

The fourth circle is one of the most important parts in the story, it describes Dante's past and Dante meets his father there. The fourth circle is called Averice- or greed. In the story his father was very greedy when it comes to money, one day he was missing three coins and he beat his wife in which after one year-she died of " a fever" ( i'll explain it later) The sinners put in here are drowned in melting gold and smooshed by golden gears. (its nasty) Dante had to kill his father to gain passage to the fifth circle.

My next blog post will be about the other four circles...stay tuned.