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The gates on Toad Road, as they stand today. The Seven Gates of Hell is a modern urban legend regarding locations in York County, Pennsylvania. [1] Two versions of the legend exist, one involving a burnt insane asylum and the other an eccentric doctor.
Hellam Township is the supposed location of the Seven Gates of Hell. [24] According to urban legend a road leads through several "gates," some of which are real while most are invisible, the seventh being the entrance to Hell .
Hell's Gate National Park is a National Park in Kenya which is named for the intense geothermal activity within its boundaries. [19] Masaya Volcano located in Nicaragua is known as another gate of hell, it is part of the first national park in the country. According to local lore, the volcano was a deity unto itself.
Ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons. The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.
He is also tasked with telling Inanna to remove various articles of clothing while she enters through the seven gates of the underworld. [16] In the text Death of Ur-Namma , Bitu is absent, but seven anonymous doorkeepers are mentioned among the underworld deities, possibly as a reflection of the motif of seven gates mentioned in Inanna's Descent .
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The seven gates of jahannam, mentioned in the Quran, inspired Muslim exegetes (tafsir) to develop a system of seven stages of hell, analogue to the seven doors of paradise. The stages of hell get their names by seven different terms used for hell throughout the Quran. Each is assigned for a different type of sinners.
In medieval Christian cosmology, middle-earth was the realm of men.It was at the centre of three worlds, with heaven above, hell below. [1]J. R. R. Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic.