Hell. Lower world of torment

Motif

Hell. Lower world of torment.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the lower world. · view the constellation · filed as A671

Filed across the traditions

Greek Fox 143
Egyptian Müller 179
Babylonian Spence 128
Persian Carnoy 345
Hindu Penzer X 169 s. v. "Hades", Keith 100, 160
India Thompson-Balys. – Japanese: Anesaki 237. – Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 80
Maya ibid. 138
Chibcha ibid. 198
Eskimo Alexander N. Am. 7.
general Jeremias Hölle und Paradies bei den Babyloniern (Leipzig 1903)
general Kohler Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion (New York 1923)
general *Landau Hölle und Fegfeuer in Volksglaube, Dichtung, und Kirchenlehre (Heidelberg, 1909)
general *Jataka Index s.v. "hell". – Norse: De la Saussaye 256, 291, MacCulloch Eddic 303, Herrmann Saxo Gr. II 588, *Boberg
general Chaco: ibid. 324

Within the index

Filed under Nature of the lower world.

11 finer motifs beneath it

Hell located to the north Creation of hell Entrance to cave as gate to hell Hell confused with fairy land Size and arrangements of hell Doorkeeper of hell Horrible sights in hell Frigidity of hell Well in hell (Hvergelmir) Gate around hell Beings born in hell have long bodies and cling with long nails to walls

Filed beside it

Stygian river. River in lower world. In Greek myth five such rivers in Hades, Styx (hate), Acheron (mourning), Kokytus (lamentation), Lethe (forgetfulness) and Pyrephlegethon (flame) Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world Judges in the lower world Ship of hell Workmen and tradesmen of hell In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits Sun in the underworld Hole to lower world up which people come Nature of the lower world – miscellaneous

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