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Hell

Hell was arranged like a judicial institution. Down under the ground, a shower fell in the first trial chamber of hell, and they decide where to send it, depending on merit, sins, and other circumstances. All these details have been submitted in advance in the underground kingdom of many spirits – patrons of towns, villages, home and personal destinies. Of the remaining nine Chambers eight were for meal and penalties, and last, tenth, was determined following degeneration soul. From the first chamber immediately fell on the tenth, only the rare elected. Most had to pass through the first one, several or even all of the eight intermediate chambers and pay for it all trespasses committed during his lifetime. House had a specialization in each of them had several rooms for the execution of the penalties provided for different kinds of sins.
But above all, sinful soul have been in front of the mirror of Evil, which was the first in the House on a terrace facing the east. In the Mirror of Evil, they saw their reflection of bad cases. The frame of a mirror can be read the inscription «On the terrace in front of the mirror of evil is not good people». After this infernal spirits uvlekali souls of sinners in place designed to torment.
In the second division went to the soul of men and women who have nedozvolennuyu us, the soul of thieves, bad healers, deceivers. There sinners contained in the dirt, their kololi pitchforks.
The third chamber was designed, in particular, for those who thought that the emperor does not care about the subjects for civil servants fail in one’s duties, for wives, deceiving their husbands. They perevyazyvali penkovoy cord throat, arms and legs, kololi sides, mites szhimali heart.
In the fourth chamber were sinners, not taxes, sellers, obveshivavshie and cheat customers, sold counterfeit drugs or rice soaked with water. It also suffered swindler pay during the lifetime of fake money as well as those who have deceived customers with otmere matter Kral stones from the bridge and the oil from street lamps, and even just envied the wealth of others. They are expected Nechistot river, the bridge through which kept poisonous snake and an evil dog. Also in the fourth ward, was Bloody Pond, in which the spirits of hell driven souls of sinners, murderers, and not allowed to shoot his head.
In the fifth ward was a terrace, which was a staircase of 63 steps, the knives. From the terrace of sinners saw the house, heard it close. This was the punishment for those who do not fulfill the last will of the parents failed to comply with state laws, does not help with money, with them, as well as those who live with his wife dreamed of a friend.
The sixth chamber of the people caught committing sacrilege: disrespect called gods or ukravshie gold and jewels with images of deities. In addition, there have been subjected to punishing those who disrespect ispisannoy treated paper and books. In the judgment seat carved from the heart of sinners and threw for fuel psam.
In the seventh ward vyryvali languages klevetnikam. Ibid tomilis those who plundered, who threw the newborn, who played for money.
In the eighth House hit those who have been nepochtitelen parents. This shortens the life of sinners in the next birth, often its short life, they should have been held in the form of an animal. However, over time in the eighth to finish some judgment seat improve and gain forgiveness, which made an entry on their foreheads.
Ninth House surrounded railway network, waiting for the sinners who committed arson, manufacturing poisons writing bad books and paintings, as well as fruit izgonyavshih using potions. They otsekali head, cut into small parts or udavlivali rope.
In the tenth ward were the soul, which is about to be born again, and therefore to the world living it joined six bridges: gold, silver, nefritovy, stone and wooden two. There is a pavilion on the goddess of Maine-( «Aunt Maine»), where the souls of the new incarnation gave drink drink oblivion.
Species transformation was six. The highest of these was the transformation in the sky (which corresponded to paradise or nirvana). The second was the possibility of transformation of the earth in human guise: those who did only good, born again in the guise of the princes, military leaders and dignitaries, less virtuous – in the guise of merchants, scholars, craftsmen and farmers, or widowers, childless and orphans. The third way – the degeneration of the underwater world of demons. These three options were considered more or less desirable.
The remaining three have been a bad transformation and perceived as a punishment for the sins of past life. The fourth type has been reborn in the underground world of demons, servants of hell, the fifth – the rest of the world of demons (which corresponded buddistskomu world hungry ghosts, flying around the world neprikayannymi and brought misery to people), the sixth – in the world of animals, including insects and even plants.
Of the six degeneration, only one was eternal – stay in heaven. All other pererodivshiesya substance after a certain period of time again and died again fell in the first chamber of hell where it all began again.
There were also certain representations relating to the posthumous fate of suicide. Suicide is not condemned, only a few cases: when the cause of the act has been faithful to duty, filial reverence, or the desire to preserve chastity. The other suicide back to earth in the guise of hungry demons. After a period of life allotted to them heaven, they came to the city vain deaths, where there was no other way to birth. There was a belief that they can return to the ground and resurface again if they can give someone else’s body, so the souls of those allegedly harassed alive, trying to exhaust them to death.

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Сентябрь 2010
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