Before the historical hell

Some ancient peoples burned the dead: this is a sure sign that the soul must ascend to its new home in heaven. If it was buried in the ground, then it will go to the underworld. If they were sent on their last journey by boat, the soul sails to a country beyond the sea, at the very edge of the Earth. The Slavs had very different opinions on this matter, but they all agreed on one thing: the souls of those people who are not kept near their former dwellings enter the afterlife, and they lead approximately the same existence there - they harvest, hunt ... Those who because of a curse, or an unfulfilled promise, or something else, they cannot leave their bodies, they remain in our world - either moving into their former shells, or taking on the appearance of animals, natural phenomena, or simply ghosts of failure. It can be said that the afterlife of such souls is our own world, so this is not the worst option for an afterlife existence.

egyptian hell

Everything will turn out much worse if you find yourself in the afterlife of the ancient Egyptians, where Osiris reigns. During his earthly incarnation, he was killed and dismembered by his own brother Seth. This could not but affect the character of the lord of the dead. Osiris looks repulsive: he looks like a mummy clutching the signs of pharaoh's power in his hands. Sitting on the throne, he presides over the court that weighs the deeds of newly arrived souls. The god of life Horus introduces them here. Hold on tight to his hand: the falcon-headed Horus is the son of the underground king, so he may well put in a good word for you.

The hall of judgment is huge - it is the whole vault of heaven. According to the instructions of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a number of rules must be observed in it. List in detail the sins that you did not have time to commit during your lifetime. After that, you will be offered to leave a memory of yourself and help your relatives by depicting a court scene on a papyrus scroll. If your artistic talent is at its best, you will spend the rest of eternity here, participating in the affairs of Osiris and his numerous divine relatives. The rest will face a cruel execution: they are thrown to be devoured by Ammat, a monster with the body of a hippopotamus, the paws and mane of a lion and the mouth of a crocodile. However, the lucky ones can also be in his mouth: from time to time there are “cleansings”, in which the affairs of the ward souls are again reviewed. And if relatives did not supply the appropriate amulets, you will surely be eaten by a ruthless monster.

Ancient Greek Hell - Tartarus

(Tartaros, Greek). Place of flour in the underworld. In Homer, Tartarus is the place where the Titans are imprisoned, which is different from hell. Later, Tartarus was used to refer to the underworld in general.

TARTARUS, in Greek mythology, the space located in the very depths of space, below Hades. Tartarus is as far from Hades as the earth is from heaven. If you throw a copper anvil from heaven to earth, then it would reach the earth in nine days. She would need the same amount to fly from the earth to Tartarus. In Tartar lie the roots of the earth and the sea, all ends and beginnings. It is surrounded by a copper wall, and the night surrounds it in three rows. Tartarus is the home of Nikta (goddess of the Night). Even the gods fear the great abyss of Tartarus. The titans defeated by Zeus were thrown into Tartarus. There they languish behind the brass door guarded by the hundred-handed. The gods of a new generation live on Olympus - the children of the overthrown titans; in Tartarus - the gods of the past generation, the fathers of the winners. Tartarus is the lower sky (as opposed to Olympus - the upper sky). Later, Tartarus was rethought as the most remote place of Hades, where blasphemers and impudent heroes - Aload, Pirithous, Ixion, Salmoneus, Sisyphus, Tityos, Tantalus - are punished. In Hesiod's Theogony, Tartarus is personified. He is one of the four primary potencies (along with Chaos, Gaia and Eros). Gaia gives birth to the monstrous Typhon from Tartarus. The daughter of Tartarus and Gaia, according to one of the myths, was Echidna.

christian hell

According to Christian teaching, after the fall of the forefathers, the souls of all the dead, including the Old Testament righteous, fell into hell. The souls of Righteous Simeon the God-Receiver and John the Baptist, beheaded by King Herod, preached speedy and universal deliverance in hell. After his suffering and death on the cross, Christ, with his human soul, descended into the most remote depths of hell, destroyed hell and brought out of it the souls of all the righteous into the Kingdom of God (paradise), as well as those souls of sinners who accepted the sermon about the coming salvation. And now, the souls of the dead saints (pious Christians) go to heaven.

But often living people repel God from themselves with their sins - they themselves create a living hell in their souls, and after death, the souls no longer have the opportunity to change their state, which will continue to progress in eternity. The posthumous and final fate of the souls of deceased non-Christians is unknown to those living today - it completely depends on the will of God, if He considers that the deceased lived according to his conscience, and that his soul is ready to glorify Christ, then it can be accepted into heavenly abodes.

The Savior emphasizes that the determining criterion for Him will be the presence (among the “lambs”) of works of mercy (helping those in need, to which He counts Himself), or the absence of these works (among the “goats”) (Mt. 25:31-46) . God will make the final decision at the Last Judgment, after which not only the souls of sinners, but also their resurrected material bodies will be tormented in hell. Christ pointed out that the greatest torment in hell will befall those who knew His commandments, but did not fulfill them, and those who did not forgive offenses against their neighbors. The most difficult torment in hell will be not physical, but moral, the voice of conscience, a kind of unnatural state when a sinful soul cannot bear the presence of God, but even without God it is completely unbearable. In hell, demons (fallen angels) will also suffer, who will be even more bound after the Last Judgment.

Catholicism and Orthodoxy argue that in order for the soul to go not to hell, but to heaven after death, one must be baptized, adhere to the doctrine, partake of the Body and Blood of Christ, observe spiritual purity and do charitable deeds while living on earth. The right to determine whether a person's soul goes to hell or heaven in Christianity belongs to God.

Protestantism claims that in order for a person's soul to go to heaven and not to hell, one must be a born again Christian. In neo-Protestantism (Baptism, Methodism, Pentecostalism, etc.) baptism does not play a major role in salvation. In classical Protestantism (Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, etc.), there is a thesis about the need for baptism of infants so that they go to heaven after death.

St. John Chrysostom writes: "Because He (God) prepared Gehenna (hell, as a place of residence for sinners), because He is good." Even the most unbearable and incomparable eternal torment of sinners in hell is still better than non-existence or the complete cessation of their existence. According to some Christian apologists, hell is evil, but God cannot do evil, however, during His creation (good), it leaves the possibility for the rational beings (angels and people) created by Him to “create” both good and evil. Evil, according to their concept, is just either perverted good, or the absence of good, that is, non-existence, which can never be complete and final. Despite the fact that hell is called the kingdom of the devil and his angels, the omnipresent and omnipotent God is incomprehensibly present in hell and mentally controls it

Hell in Islam

According to the teachings of Islam, on the Day of Judgment all people will be resurrected, and judgment will take place on them, and people will be divided into 2 groups - the inhabitants of hell and the inhabitants of paradise. Hell in Islam is the eternal refuge of the infidels (“kafirs” - those who did not follow the divine religion) and created shirk. The Almighty will not forgive anyone for only one sin - polytheism (“shirk” - Arabic), shirk refers to the worship of anyone other than the Most High One God (“Allah” - Arabic), giving him partners, likening someone to Allah, etc. The Almighty will forgive all other sins or not according to His Wisdom and Mercy. Hell in Islam is called Jahannam (Arabic).

There is a tree in Hell called “zakkum”: “which is rooted in Hell. The fruits of its branches are like devil's heads. And from it they eat and fill their stomachs with it” (Quran, 37:64-66). The inhabitants of Hell will eat this tree, drink boiling water: “And they will give them foul-smelling boiling water to drink, they will sip it (sips), but they will hardly be able to swallow it” (Quran, 14:16-17), wear clothes made of fire: “And for clothes of the unbelievers will be covered with fire ”(Quran, 22:19), everywhere in hell there will be fire:“ Layers of Fire will lie above and below them ”(Quran, 39:16),“ In the shade of suffocating smoke, not refreshing and not good" (Quran, 56:43-44). The Quran also describes that all the inhabitants of Hell will experience guilt, grief and sadness that they lived their lives without worshiping the Almighty. “For them there is a cry and a roar, and an eternal abode there, while the earth and the sky last, unless your Lord only wants to dispose of it differently, - for Your Lord, truly, is the Arbiter of everything that He wants” (Quran, 11:106 -107).

Hell in Buddhism

In Buddhism, hells are a place of residence for beings who practice malice and hatred. There are eight hells (eight cold, eight hot), but there are also additional hells. Stay in hell is long, but not infinite, after the consequences of negative karma are exhausted, the being dies and is born again in higher worlds.

Hell in Kabbalah

In Kabbalah, "hell" is the awareness of the difference between a person and the Creator - the Higher power of good. This is the extreme degree of awareness of our evil - a measure of how bad we feel, suddenly discovering that we are opposite to Him in properties. The feeling of shame, remoteness, own insignificance and meanness is so terrible that there is nothing worse than this. This feeling of absolute shame - this is the feeling of "hell", which simply incinerates.

Hell in Mormonism

In the revelations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the word hell is used in two ways.
Firstly, is the name given to spiritual prison, a place in the postmortal spirit world prepared for those “who died in their sins, without knowing the truth, or in transgression, rejecting the prophets” (Doctrine and Covenants 138:32). This is a temporary state in which spirits will be given the opportunity to learn the gospel, repent, and receive the ordinances of salvation performed for them in temples (Doctrine and Covenants 138:30-35).
Secondly, the word hell refers to the outer darkness - the place where Satan, his angels and the sons of perdition will dwell (Doctrine and Covenants 29:36-38, 76:28-33).

Dante hell

After passing through the forest, you will find yourself on the eve of hell, in the "mysterious canopy". This is a gloomy and heavy place where the souls of those “who lived without knowing either the glory or the shame of mortal deeds” are imprisoned. There are quite a few of these. “Scraps of all dialects” merge into a single rumble, on which these people groan and wail, all their lives being neither hot nor cold, but only warm. These insignificant souls are tormented by whole goyim of horseflies and wasps. From wounds, mixed with tears, blood drips, which is devoured by hordes of worms. The angels are also imprisoned here, who, without rebelling against the Lord, did not take the side of Beelzebub, preferring cautious neutrality. Since those times immemorial, their “sad flock” has been uprooted by heaven, but hell does not accept either ...

hell on planets

Venus hell

On Venus is a truly biblical Hell. Clouds of sulfuric acid, a pressure of 100 earth atmospheres and a temperature of + 400 degrees. This is real hell!

Martian Hell

The bizarre mountainous relief of Mars also resembles medieval paintings of the underworld.

Hell scientifically

Jack and Rexell van Imp, Michigan, USA have concluded that black holes fit the bill to be the location of hell. For this they were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2001.

Tartar Tartar

(Tartaros, Τάρταρος). Place of flour in the underworld. In Homer, Tartarus is the place where the Titans are imprisoned, which is different from hell. Later, Tartarus was used to refer to the underworld in general.

(Source: "A Brief Dictionary of Mythology and Antiquities." M. Korsh. St. Petersburg, edition of A. S. Suvorin, 1894.)

(Τάρταρος), in Greek mythology, the space located in the very depths of space, below Hades. T. is as far away from the view as the earth is from the sky. If you throw a copper anvil from heaven to earth, then it would reach the earth in nine days. It would take her the same amount to fly from the earth to T. In T. lie the roots of the earth and the sea, all ends and beginnings. It is surrounded by a copper wall, and the night surrounds it in three rows. VT. - the dwelling of Nikta (Night). Even the gods are afraid of the great abyss of T. In T., the titans defeated by Zeus were cast down. There they languish behind the bronze door guarded by the hundred hands (Hes. Theog. 717-745). The gods of a new generation live on Olympus - the children of the overthrown titans; in T. - the gods of the past generation, the fathers of the winners. T. is the lower sky (as opposed to Olympus - the upper sky). Later, T. was rethought as the most remote place of Hades, where blasphemers and impudent heroes are punished - Aloady, Pirithous, Ixion, Salmoneus (Verg. Aen. VI 580-601), Sisyphus, Tityos, Tantalus (cf. Not. Od. XI 576-600). In the "Theogony" of Hesiod, T. is personified. He is one of the four primary potencies (along with Chaos, Gaia and Eros) (116-120). Gaia gives birth to the monstrous Typhon from T. (821 next). The daughter of T. and Gaia, according to one of the myths, was Echidna (Apollod. II 1, 2).
l. t.-g.

(Source: "Myths of the peoples of the world".)

an underground abyss, never illuminated and not warmed by the sun, where the souls of sinners will be sent: "and behold there is tartar - winter is not warm and the filth is fierce."

(Source: "Slavic mythology. Dictionary-reference book.")

The abyss in the bowels of the earth, where Zeus cast the titans; realm of the dead. // Friedrich SCHILLER: Group from Tartarus

(Source: "Myths of Ancient Greece. Dictionary Reference." EdwART, 2009.)

See what "Tartar" is in other dictionaries:

- (Latin Tartarus, Greek Tartaros). The underworld, where sinners received punishments worthy of their crimes (Greek myth.). Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language. Chudinov A.N., 1910. TARTAR lat. Tartarus, Greek Tartaros… … Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language

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Mayonnaise sauce with carnishons. (Culinary Dictionary. Zdanovich L.I. 2001) * * * (Source: United Dictionary of Culinary Terms) Tartar Tartar is a kind of sauce. Dictionary of culinary terms. 2012 ... Culinary Dictionary

TARTARUS, hell, underworld. You fell into hell, the same. Let the Tatars go to hell, so are you following them? Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary. IN AND. Dal. 1863 1866 ... Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

Tartarus- (hell, underworld) (wrong tartar) ... Dictionary of pronunciation and stress difficulties in modern Russian

TARTARUS, in Greek mythology, an abyss in the bowels of the earth, below Hades, where the titans, Sisyphus, Tantalus, etc. were cast down ... Modern Encyclopedia

In Greek mythology, the abyss in the bowels of the earth, where Zeus cast the titans; realm of the dead. Hence the expression to fall into tartarara ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

In the myths of the ancient Greeks, the abyss is below Hades, where the titans, Sisyphus, Tantalus, and others were cast down ... Historical dictionary

TARTAR, tartar, pl. no, husband. Hell in Greek mythology. (After the name of Tartaros, the Greek god who created the titans, who were imprisoned in the underworld, on the eve of hell.) Ushakov's explanatory dictionary. D.N. Ushakov. 1935 1940 ... Explanatory Dictionary of Ushakov

TARTAR, a, husband. In ancient Greek mythology: hell, underworld. Gate of Tartarus. Explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 ... Explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov

Books

• Tartar Issue 1-2 set of 2 books, Kholodchuk O., 300 years, mankind has been living in a severe crisis of food and energy resources. The little that remains is collected in Tartarus - the underground city of the elect. Survive on…

TARTARUS

(Tartaros, ????????). Place of flour in the underworld. In Homer, Tartarus is the place where the Titans are imprisoned, which is different from hell. Later, Tartarus was used to refer to the underworld in general.

Brief Dictionary of Mythology and Antiquities. 2012

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• TARTARUS in the Directory of Miracles, Unusual Phenomena, UFOs, and More:
  in ancient Greek myths, a distant area, located deeper than the hell of Hades in the very depths of the Cosmos, and at the same time - on such ...
• TARTARUS in the Concise Church Slavonic Dictionary:
  - hell, underworld, immeasurable ...
• TARTARUS in the Dictionary-Reference Myths of Ancient Greece:
  - the abyss in the bowels of the earth, where Zeus cast the titans; realm of the dead. // Friedrich SCHILLER: A group of ...
• TARTARUS in the Directory of Characters and Cult Objects of Greek Mythology:
  In Greek mythology, the space located in the very depths of space, below Hades. Tartarus is as far away from Hades as the earth ...
• TARTARUS in the Dictionary-Reference Who's Who in the Ancient World:
  Place of punishment in the Underworld (Hades). In Homer, it is intended only for Kronos and the defeated titans, but later Tartarus becomes ...
• TARTARUS in the Big Encyclopedic Dictionary:
  in Greek mythology, an abyss in the bowels of the earth, where Zeus cast the titans; realm of the dead. Hence the expression "fall into ...
• TARTARUS in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
  in ancient Greek mythology, an abyss in the bowels of the earth, where Zeus imprisoned the titans cast down by him; kingdom...
• TARTARUS in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Euphron:
  Tartar (o, h TartaroV, ta Tartara, Tagtarus, Tartara) - according to ancient Greek mythology, a dark abyss, which is just as far from ...
• TARTARUS in the Modern Encyclopedic Dictionary:
  in Greek mythology, an abyss in the bowels of the earth, below Hades, where the titans, Sisyphus, Tantalus and ...
• TARTARUS
  [Greek] in ancient Greek myths, part of the underworld, where ...
• TARTARUS in the Encyclopedic Dictionary:
  a, m., with a capital letter In ancient Greek mythology: the underworld of the dead, the underworld, hell; the same as Hades, Gades.||Compare. GEHENNA ...
• TARTARUS in the Encyclopedic Dictionary:
  , -a, m. In ancient Greek mythology: hell, underworld. Gate...
• TARTARUS in the Big Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary:
  TARTAR, in Greek. mythology, the abyss in the bowels of the earth, where Zeus cast the titans; realm of the dead. Hence the expression "fall into ...
• TARTARUS in the Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron:
  (?, ? ??????????, ?? ???????, Tartarus, Tartara) ? according to ancient Greek mythology, a dark abyss, which is the same distance from ...
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• TARTARUS in the New Dictionary of Foreign Words:
  (gr. tartaros) in ancient Greek mythology - the underworld of the dead, the underworld, hell (see also hades, hades ...
• TARTARUS in the Dictionary of Foreign Expressions:
  [gr. tartaros] in ancient Greek mythology - the underworld of the dead, the underworld, hell (see also Hades, ...
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• TARTARUS in the New explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language Efremova:
  m. A place where - according to religious beliefs - after the death of sinners, their souls are subjected to eternal torment; hell, underworld (in ancient Greek ...
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Tartarus

(Tartaros, Τάρταρος). Place of flour in the underworld. In Homer, Tartarus is the place where the Titans are imprisoned, which is different from hell. Later, Tartarus was used to refer to the underworld in general.

(Source: "A Brief Dictionary of Mythology and Antiquities." M. Korsh. St. Petersburg, edition of A. S. Suvorin, 1894.)

(Τάρταρος), in Greek mythology, the space located in the very depths of space, below Hades. T. is as far away from the view as the earth is from the sky. If you throw a copper anvil from heaven to earth, then it would reach the earth in nine days. It would take her the same amount to fly from the earth to T. In T. lie the roots of the earth and the sea, all ends and beginnings. It is surrounded by a copper wall, and the night surrounds it in three rows. VT. - the dwelling of Nikta (Night). Even the gods are afraid of the great abyss of T. In T., the titans defeated by Zeus were cast down. There they languish behind the bronze door guarded by the hundred hands (Hes. Theog. 717-745). The gods of a new generation live on Olympus - the children of the overthrown titans; in T. - the gods of the past generation, the fathers of the winners. T. is the lower sky (as opposed to Olympus - the upper sky). Later, T. was rethought as the most remote place of Hades, where blasphemers and impudent heroes are punished - Aloady, Pirithous, Ixion, Salmoneus (Verg. Aen. VI 580-601), Sisyphus, Tityos, Tantalus (cf. Not. Od. XI 576-600). In the "Theogony" of Hesiod, T. is personified. He is one of the four primary potencies (along with Chaos, Gaia and Eros) (116-120). Gaia gives birth to the monstrous Typhon from T. (821 next). The daughter of T. and Gaia, according to one of the myths, was Echidna (Apollod. II 1, 2).
l. t.-g.

(Source: "Myths of the peoples of the world".)

an underground abyss, never illuminated and not warmed by the sun, where the souls of sinners will be sent: "and behold there is tartar - winter is not warm and the filth is fierce."

(Source: "Slavic mythology. Dictionary-reference book.")

The abyss in the bowels of the earth, where Zeus cast the titans; realm of the dead. // Friedrich SCHILLER: Group from Tartarus

(Source: "Myths of Ancient Greece. Dictionary Reference." EdwART, 2009.)

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• - A place of punishment in the Underworld. In Homer, it is intended only for Kronos and the defeated titans, but later it becomes a place of punishment for all sinners...

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  Brief Church Slavonic Dictionary

• - A place of flour in the underworld. In Homer, om is the place where the titans are imprisoned, which is different from hell. Later it was used to refer to the underworld in general...

  Encyclopedia of mythology

• - according to ancient Greek mythology, a dark abyss, which is as far from the surface of the earth as the sky is from the earth: a copper anvil would fly from the surface of the earth to T. within 9 days ....

  Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Euphron

• - in ancient Greek mythology, an abyss in the bowels of the earth, where Zeus concluded the titans he overthrew; realm of the dead...

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"Tartar" in books

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