Dante's Inferno: Know the Circles

This circle is where the unbaptized and pagans spend eternity.

• Circle 7

• Circle 1

• Circle 3

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Here lie the heretics in their eternal flaming tombs.

• Circle 4

• Circle 8

• Circle 6

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You'll find yourself in this circle if you overindulge in food, drink, and other worldly pleasures.

• Circle 3

• Circle 9

• Circle 5

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Those greedy in life will build some muscle spending eternity here.

• Circle 8

• Circle 6

• Circle 4

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Wrathful or sullen in your earthly life? Full of anger or gloomy? Prepare yourself to spend your days here in the afterlife

• Circle 5

• Circle 4

• Circle 7

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In this circle Geryon is waiting for those who are fraudulent. Don't trust his mood - he's a master of deception just like those who spend eternity here!

• Circle 9

• Circle 2

• Circle 8

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In this circle, you would be constantly blown back and forth never able to get that which you desire.

• Circle 3

• Circle 2

• Circle 6

A river of boiling blood & fire, or trees & bushes being eaten by harpies, being eaten alive by dogs, or stuck in land of burning sand and rains of fire - avoid violence and you avoid this circle.

• Circle 5

• Circle 2

• Circle 7

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Spend eternity frozen in this circle. The worse the sin - the deeper into the ice you go!

• Circle 9

• Circle 1

• Circle 4

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