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The doors to hell. Where does tradition place them?

Religion and tradition shake hands when it comes to talking about the underworld .In many places on earth there are legends about entrances to hell .In Mysterious we talk about one of them that according to ancient beliefs was in an old mine on which the Monastery of El Escorial was built, in Madrid.Felipe II ordered to raise his palace to seal that damn door, but as we have said, the legends speak of many others tickets. The doors to hell Where does tradition place them?

The doors to hell.Where does tradition place them?

The Catholicism has always conceived of hell as an underground place , with fire and where suffering reigned.That is why it is not surprising that for the Catholic tradition the supposed doors to hell are found underground .But they are not the only ones to talk about those entries; the Hebrews, the Greeks or the Maya also mention them.

The doors to hell. Where does tradition place them?

Romans and Greeks thought that an entrance was in the Flegeous Fields , an area volcanic located 9 km from the city of Naples.In this area there is a lake formed in the crater of a volcano called Averno .It was the poet Virgil who called it so because of its dark appearance and placed in the the mouth of the underworld .Another possible door was located in Hierapolis , today Pamukkale, in Turkey.Italian archaeologists found in 2013 a cave full of ritual drawings very similar to what Estrabon describes as one of the doors to hell that gave off evil vapors .It is currently closed to the public since the steam that comes out of the pro The cave's foundries are highly toxic.

The doors to hell. Where does tradition place them?

The Hebrews believed that the door was in the Valley of Hinnom It was the entrance to the underworld where evil souls were punished , for varying periods, according to their degree of evil.Hinnom is sometimes translated as hell.For Muslims This valley is also synonymous with shame as it passes over the bridge that souls must cross on the way to paradise.If they have not fulfilled the precepts they will fall from the bridge to the lake of fire.

Another traditional door to hell is in Nicaragua , in the Masaya volcano .Alli since the 16th century there is a cross that prevents demons from leaving and protects humans from that entrance to the underworld.It is known as the Bobadilla cross , name of the clergy who installed it after descending the slope of the volcano attached to na rope.What he saw on his descent made him say that that was really the mouth of hell .

In Japan Mount Osoro with its penetrating Sulfur smell, yellowish and bubbly water and great volcanic activity is another mouth to hell.According to Japanese legends, in it the souls stop before entering the underworld .

The doors to hell. Where does tradition place them?

In Iceland the volcano Hekla is known since the Middle Ages as one of the doors to hell.In 1104, after a violent eruption, some Cistercian monks spread the idea that there was an entrance there.In Nordic literature there are many mentions to this place and they are even cited as Judas Prison .

In addition to these, there are other places in the world, even if they are not traditional, known as entrances to hell.Do you know any more?

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