Hell

=== Punishment ===
[[File:Fresque église huaro.JPG|thumb|240px|Preserved colonial wall paintings of 1802 depicting Hell,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A6nutjzmxvkC&q=historia+colonial+de+cusco&pg=PA382|page=106|title=The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530–1830|author1=Elena Phipps|author2=Joanna Hecht|author3=Cristina Esteras Martín|year=2004|publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]|location=New York|isbn=0-300-10491-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vpi5xwEACAAJ&q=SEBASTI%C3%81N+L%C3%93PEZ,+Santiago.+El+barroco+iberoamericano+1990|title=El bárroco iberoamericano. Mensaje iconográfico|year=1990|location=Madrid|page=241|publisher=Ediciones Encuentro|author=Santiago Sebastián López|isbn=978-84-7490-249-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://mavcor.yale.edu/conversations/collections/painting-beyond-frame-religious-murals-colonial-peru|title=Painting Beyond the Frame: Religious Murals of Colonial Peru|author=Ananda Cohen Suarez|date=May 2016|publisher=MAVCOR of the [[Yale University]]}}</ref> by Tadeo Escalante, inside the Church of San Juan Bautista in [[Huaro District|Huaro]], [[Peru]]]]
Punishment in hell typically corresponds to [[sin]]s committed during life. Sometimes these distinctions are specific, with [[Damnation#Religious|damned]] souls suffering for each sin committed, such as in Plato's [[Myth of Er]] or Dante's ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', but sometimes they are general, with condemned sinners relegated to one or more chamber of hell or to a level of suffering.{{fact|date=January 2023}}

In many religious cultures, including Christianity and Islam, hell is often depicted as fiery, painful, and harsh, inflicting suffering on the guilty.<ref>Examples from the [[New Testament]] include [[Mark 9]]:43–48, [[Luke 16]]:19–24, [[Revelation 9]]:11; from the [[Quran]], [[Al-Baqara]] verse 24, and [[Al-Mulk]] verses 5–7.</ref> Despite these common depictions of hell as a place of fire, some other traditions portray hell as cold. Buddhist{{snd}}and particularly Tibetan Buddhist{{snd}}descriptions of hell feature an equal number of hot and cold hells. Among Christian descriptions [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'' portrays the innermost (9th) circle of hell as a frozen lake of blood and guilt.<ref>{{cite book
|last=Alighieri
|first=Dante
|author-link=Dante Alighieri
|others=trans. [[John Ciardi]]
|title= Inferno
|orig-date= c. 1315
|edition=2
|date=June 2001
|version=orig. trans. 1977
|publisher=Penguin
|location=[[New York City|New York]]
|chapter=Cantos XXXI–XXXIV
|title-link=Divine Comedy
}}</ref>
But cold also played a part in earlier Christian depictions of hell or purgatory, beginning with the [[Apocalypse of Paul]], originally from the early third century;<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gardiner |first1=Eileen |title=Visions of heaven and hell before Dante |date=1989 |publisher=Italica Press |isbn=978-0-934977-14-2 |page=43 |oclc=18741120 }}</ref> the "[[Vision of Dryhthelm]]" by the Venerable [[Bede]] from the seventh century;<ref>Gardiner, ''Visions,'' pp. 58 and 61.</ref> "[[St Patrick's Purgatory]]", "The Vision of Tundale" or "[[Visio Tnugdali]]", and the "Vision of the [[Adam of Eynsham|Monk of Eynsham]]", all from the twelfth century;<ref>Gardiner, ''Visions'', pp. 141, 160 and 174, and 206–7.</ref> and the "Vision of Thurkill" from the early thirteenth century.<ref>Gardiner, ''Visions'', pp. 222 and 232.</ref>