ENFER

Pour certains croyants, un lieu de Ténèbres et de Tourments ; pour d’autres un état de solitude et de désespoir, quoi qu’il en soit, un objet d’aversion pour l’âme

Les Condamnés en Enfer, une fresque de Luca Signorelli

The Condemned in Hell, fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1500–02; in the Chapel of San Brizio in the cathedral at Orvieto, Italy.

Hades & Persephone à l’Au-delà

Hades and Persephone in the underworld, interior of a red-figure cup, Greek, from Vulci, a town of the ancient Etruscans, c. 430 bce; in the British Museum.

   

(g): “Les Mâchoires de l’Enfer”, illumination du Psautier d'Henri de Blois

(d) : Enfer, panneau droit ouvert du triptyque “Jardin des délices” l'huile sur bois de Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1505-10, musée du Prado, Madrid.

(g) :The Jaws of Hell,” illumination from the Psalter of Henry of Blois (MS. Cotton Nero CIV, folio 39); in the British Library

(d) : Hell, open right panel of the triptych Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on wood by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1505–10; in the Prado, Madrid.

Anastasis ( Christ montant au Ciel), fresque d’abside, 1320, dans l'église du Saint Sauveur, au monastère de Chora

Anastasis (Christ ascending from hell), apse fresco, 1320; in the Church of the Holy Saviour at the Monastery of the Chora (now the Kariye Museum), Istanbul.

Kannon, le bodhisattva de la compassion, Takasaki, Japon

Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion; Takasaki, Japan

Hell

In many religious traditions, the abode, usually beneath the earth, of the unredeemed deador the spirits of the damned. In its archaic sense, the term hell refers to the underworld, a deep pit or distant land of shadows where the dead are gathered. From the underworld come dreams, ghosts, and demons, and in its most terrible precincts sinnerspay—some say eternally—the penalty for their crimes. The underworld is often imagined as a place of punishment rather than merely of darkness and decomposition because of the widespread belief that a moral universe requires judgment and retribution—crime must not pay. More broadly, hell figures in religious cosmologies as the opposite of heaven, the nadir of the cosmos, and the land where God is not. In world literature the journey to hell is a perennial motif of hero legends and quest stories, and hell itself is the preeminent symbol of evil, alienation, and despair

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