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Hell

In many religions ’’’Hell’’’ is a place where souls of deads go after their life end.

Hell is commonly understood to be a bad place. If Hell is understand as a bad place, the Heaven is understood to be a good place in the opposition. Hell is thought a place underground in many cases too.

Some examples of Hell

• the ancient Greeks called Hell Tantalos. A god Hades governs the Hell.
• In Christianity the Hell is a bad place where souls of bad men go and wait the Last Judgement. A Italian poet Dante wrote in his Divine Comedy his visit to the Hell with Vergilius Maro. They entered into the Hell from a hole in Jelusarem which was believed as a center of the world in the medieval time.
• In Buddhism Hell is a bad place and one of six worlds which all souls are born into.

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