Canto XXIV

So according to Dante's Inferno, there are 9 circles of Hell. Each circle represents a sin somebody committed. The further down you go, the worse the sin you committed. The first circle is paradise compared to the 9th circle, so to speak. In class we discussed how Dante and Virgil were climbing down satan, and Virgil twisted himself around, which cause the entire world to flip around too.

So they were still climbing towards his feet, but this time they were climbing up. So North turned to South, and so forth. So South was upwards. This is kind of what happens in Pirates of the Carribean, the third movie, where they have to rock the boat. Up is Down. They have to flip the boat over and then at sundown they are actually facing up. Weird.... It's a mirror image of nature, like toliets. We flush our toliets one way, and on the other side of the world, they flush theirs a different way.

But we also discussed how there are 3 faces, just like God. The trinity is blood red-for Christ, yellow for the the Holy Spirit, and Black for the Father. The reason it is black is because when you think of God, he is white. He is pure. So for Satan, he is black, the exact oposite of white, holy, and pure.

It is almost like when they climbed out, they climbed out as new people. It seems to trigger a resemblance to baptism, or even just birth. They make their journey, and then emerge in a new place, but in the same place at the same time. They traveled down, then back up, but still ended up on the other side of the world.

It is very confusing how it works, but it is interesting just the same.