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Dante's Levels of Hell  
INFORMATIVE 

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Here are Dante's levels of Hell, from The Inferno

	Portal: entranceway
	Acheron: river separating world from underworld
	Circle 1/Limbo: home of unbaptized
	Circle 2: home of "carnal sinners"
	Circle 3: home of the gluttonous
	Circle 4: home of the prodigal and avaricious
	Circle 5/Styx: home of the wrathful
	Dis: walled city containing the remainder of Hell
	Circle 6: heretics
	Circle 7: Phlegethon (those violent to neighbors), those who were violent to themselves, and those who were violent to nature and God
	Abyss
	Circle 8/Malebolge: has 10 deeper bastions, including Boldia, flatterers, buyers/sellers of pardons, fortunetellers, grafters, hypocrites, robbers, evil counslors, scandalmongers, liars
	Circle 9/Cocytus: a frozen lake, including a pit of giants and all traitors
	Center of the Earth: home of Lucifer

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