Dante's Divine Comedy

Ominously tumbling waters. An odd encounter with three trapped souls. And then stranger things happen.

Following the red stream, across burning sands, a gaggle of souls approach them.

On the edge of an expanse of burning sand and falling fire, they speak with a soul cursing Jupiter and see a vision.

They enter an ugly wood to encounter souls who killed themselves.

Descending a steep slope, they see the minotaur, centaurs and a river of boiling blood.

A foul stench prompts illumination of lower hell's subtler entrapments and evils.

Now inside Dis, they meet those who have followed their own way: heretics.

Terrified by the demons that block their path, Dante and Virgil wait.

Still in the fifth circle, they face the river Styx and the terror of Dis.

Virgil and Dante are in the fourth and fifth circles of hell shocked by souls trapped by money and by anger.