Ebook: Why hell stinks of sulfur: mythology and geology of the underworld

The gobstopper -- Jerusalem -- The wanderings of Odysseus -- The entrance to Hell -- The vestibule -- Charon's ferry -- Limbo -- The City of Dis -- Avarice -- The conflagration -- The monster Geryon -- The river of tar -- Collapses -- The lead cloak -- To the centre of the Earth -- With Lucifer in the ice -- The way back.;When people go looking for hell, they go underground. Dante, Aeneas, and Odysseus all journeyed beneath the earth to find the underworld, a place where the dead are tortured according to their sins. Buffy the Vampire Slayer had to deal with a huge underground pit infested with demons below her high school called the Hellmouth. And when Homer Simpson ate the forbidden donut for which he'd sold his soul to the devil, he was sucked through a fiery hole in the ground. Though humans actually haven't gone more than 7.5 miles into the earth, we associate this mysterious underground realm with darknes.