Luciana Cuppo Csaki
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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: Re: fire and ice in hell
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> Luciana Cuppo Csaki
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> > From: "Otfried Lieberknecht" <[log in to unmask]>
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> > > - fire and ice in hell
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> > Myth and geography come together dramatically in Iceland.
> > HEKLA perpetuis /
> > damnata e(?)stib. et ni-/
> > uib horrendo boat(?)u /
> > lapides evomit.
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> <Lotharius, aka Pope Innocent III, was quite familiar with the torment of
> Hecla 'damned to fire and snow everlasting' (perpetuis damnata aestibus et
> nivibus, I would think). The damned, he wrote, 'de aquis nivium transibunt
> ad calorem nimium' ut subita contrariorum mutatio graviorem inferat
> cruciatum. Experimento cognovi quod adustus, si frigidis statim
adhibeatur,
> ardenciorem senciet cruciatum." Lotharius was of course paraphrasing Job
> 24.19 (Vulgate), 'ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis nivium' and, need I
> add, for Lotharius and Job hell was no myth.
> Cheerfully,
> Luciana
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