'Hades' is another name for the Yin Cao Di Mansion in ancient Chinese mythology, and the West is also known as Hell, and for the people of the East and the West, both The Hell House and Hell are considered to be the places where people's souls suffer after death.
For The Chinese mainland, there is actually no word hell, it is more accurate to call it Hades, not hell.
In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, it is recorded that "Chinese the dead, and the soul returns to the Dai (Tai) Mountain". Mount Tai is the place of the sun under the heavens, and it also gives birth to the most exuberant yin qi in the world, that is, the earth house. This is the embodiment of Taoist thought, and in the Tao Te Ching, it is said that things are strong and old, that is, we know that things must be reversed.
In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is said: "In the midst of the vicissitudes of the sea, there is the mountain of Dushuo, and there is a big peach tree on it." Its Qu Pan is three thousand miles, and the northeast of its branches is known as the Ghost Gate, and the ten thousand ghosts are also in and out. ”
Mountains and Seas Sutra
After the introduction of Buddhism to China, the local mythology was integrated, so that hell became part of the underworld, and there was a more complete integration of the local hades, making the Yin Cao prefecture more rational. This makes it possible to have eighteen layers of hell.
The eighteen layers of hell are: Tongue Pulling Hell ╮ Scissor Hell ╮ Iron Tree Hell ╮ Evil Mirror Hell ╮ Steamer Hell ╮ Copper Pillar Hell ╮ Knife Mountain Hell ╮ Iceberg Hell ╮ Oil Pot Hell ╮ Cow Pit Hell ╮ Stone Pressure Hell ╮ Cocoon Hell ╮ Blood Pool Hell ╮ Death Hell ╮ Punishment Hell ╮ Volcano Hell ╮ Stone Grinding Hell ╮ Knife Saw Hell. Each hell is twenty times more suffering and doubles its lifespan than the previous one.
Western Hell, on the other hand, is divided into nine layers.
The First Circle is called the 'Spirit Prison,' and the people imprisoned here belong to people who have no Christian faith. But christianity was not established before they died, so they could only stay at this level and wait for God's judgment.
The second layer of hell is called 'lust,' and as the name suggests, it imprisons those who covet lust in their lifetime. These people are immersed in the pleasures of the flesh before they die, and after death, they will be wrapped in the wind and constantly crash into the rocks.
The third layer of hell is called the 'gluttony', which can also be called the "gluttony sin", which is overeating. The environment here is very harsh, and the former gluttones lie on the ground unable to move, allowing the rubble and sewage falling from the sky to hit.
The fourth layer of hell (Forth Circle) is called 'greed', where the greedy people of the past die and constantly push boulders to collide with each other, and the greek mythical demon Plutus (Protos) hovers here, watching everything.
The Fifth Circle of Hell is called 'Rage', where the Rage fighters fight each other, tearing flesh and blood, and the blur of flesh and blood can never stop.
The sixth circle of hell is called 'heretics', the punishment ground of the pagans, and the fallen angels guard here, who constantly drive these pagans.
The seventh layer of hell is called 'violence', and it is where the perpetrators are imprisoned, who commit violence against others (killing, plundering), violence against themselves (suicide), and violence against God (blasphemy).
The Eighth Circle, called 'deception,' houses gamblers, pimps, those who make false money, corrupt politicians, and more. Some of them had their heads twisted 180 degrees, some of their bodies were buried upside down, some of them were combined with poisonous snakes, anyway, how to punish them.
The ninth circle of hell is the lowest level, called 'betrayal,' and the people locked up in this layer are all locked in ice, including Judas, the great traitor who betrayed Jesus that Christians hate the most, and those who betrayed relatives, benefactors, friends, or nations.
In general, both the Western hell and the eastern underground government are places where people suffer after death; the difference is that the eastern underground government can be said to be one of the institutions of the heavenly court, and the innocent will also go to Hades to reincarnate, while in the West only the evil people will go, and in the eyes of the Westerners, they can escape the suffering of hell only through honest labor and transformation.
This article was produced by: SID