Categories: Dante

Maps of the Afterlife

The Spheres of Paradise

Dante’s Paradise consists of different ascending spheres by holiness, ultimately ending in a vision of God.

Botticelli’s  Painting of Inferno – The Circles of Hell

The geography of Dante’s Hell, is descending circles of increasing punishment.  The bottom level is inhabited by Satan.

Hell and Purgatory

The entrance to Purgatory is through the bottom of Hell.  Accessed by crawling over Satan.

The Mountain of Purgatory

Dante’s Purgatory is a seven story mountain, each level focusing on purifying a different category of sin.   The Garden of Eden is at the top of the mountain where the soul ascends into Heaven.

Peering into the celestial spheres

The Spheres of Dante’s Heaven surround the Earth, Hell, and Purgatory.  The Spheres are based on Ptolemy’s geocentric model of the Universe.

Dave

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